Moving the Couch with a BX

[JOHNTHOMAS]

To save $80 I ordered a couch online from ivgstores.com. It arrived today on the back of a tractor trailer that parked at the bottom of my driveway. Driver felt he may not make it up drive since he didn't have much weight on the truck. I would have just slid it onto my truck but it wasn't here so out comes the BX. Was concerned about it staying on the bucket then remembered I had the forks. Voila! The problem was solved. I've also unloaded and moved a fridge with my tractor. So, this is to let those thinking about buying a tractor that all the uses can't be told because they all haven't been done yet. Pictures enclosed.

 

[psvines]

Very nice! I just showed my wife the pictures to help justify my new BX2660, and now she want a new couch...

 

[irvingj]

(This was last spring...)

Great! Now I've got my 600-lb. mower deck, HOW do I get it out of the trailer by myself?!?

Oh, yeah... the tractor!

 

[johnk]

To save $80 I ordered a couch online from ivgstores.com. It arrived today on the back of a tractor trailer that parked at the bottom of my driveway. Driver felt he may not make it up drive since he didn't have much weight on the truck. I would have just slid it onto my truck but it wasn't here so out comes the BX. Was concerned about it staying on the bucket then remembered I had the forks. Voila! The problem was solved. I've also unloaded and moved a fridge with my tractor. So, this is to let those thinking about buying a tractor that all the uses can't be told because they all haven't been done yet. Pictures enclosed.

It would have been easier with a Grand L... Just kidding.. Trying to get you shopping once more..

 

[Thomas]

Just proves tractor are must.

 

[keyman1808]

I had a party the other weekend and filled the bucket with beer and soda then some snow. Parked it outside the window with the bucket at sill height. Makes one **** of a cooler.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

It would have been easier with a Grand L... Just kidding.. Trying to get you shopping once more..

Already did the Grand L and my tractor and couch shopping days are over. My BX25 is to be delivered tomorrow.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Very nice! I just showed my wife the pictures to help justify my new BX2660, and now she want a new couch...

Had to read this one to my wife. Great.

ThomasRe: Moving the Couch with a BX
Just proves tractor are must.

Amen!

Re: Moving the Couch with a BX
I had a party the other weekend and filled the bucket with beer and soda then some snow. Parked it outside the window with the bucket at sill height. Makes one **** of a cooler.

Great idea!! Uses of/for a tractor are unlimited and another fine example of why a FEL is almost a requirement.

 

[BotaBigot]

I had plenty of help putting a 284 lb jukebox in my pickup...but none to get it off. Picked up a half-sheet of 3/4 ply at the Depot on the way, and when I got home, laid ply on bucket forks, rolled juke (has wheels) onto ply, drove around to family room patio, hand trucked it over threshold, and rolled juke into family room. Chalk up another use...

 

[Toolguy]

I used my B3030 to move an 800lb gunsafe from the back of my Suburban to the house. Way too heavy for an appliance dolly.

 

[oldballs]

May I ask what brand of forks y'all are using on you BX's? I'm shopping now and trying to settle in on a pair. I'm thinking that the purchase should be in line with the size of the machine, but there are still so many different designs.

 

[Tom_H]

I recently bought a new set of those front load washer/dryers. Instead of paying $250 x 2 = $500 total for those little pedestals, I built my own little platform out of scraps for them to sit on. The platform is 19" high and open in front. I planned the platform such that one little dolly with my 2 bh buckets and 1 BroTek ripper will roll under it as well as another little dolly with the free weight plates that I use as ballast.

The dryer wasn't too heavy, but the washer was a good 350 lb. and the top of the platform 21" high. I kept thinking about how to get the thing up there, and then I remembered the new set of debris/brush forks from Paynes. The FEL on the BX gave me very precise control; I feathered it perfectly in line and in plane with the platform surface. Even with the forks and washer all out in front of the bucket edge, I still didn't need rear ballast. It was sweet!

Though I can't elevate things as much, I find my 3ph carryall also to be a great device for carrying big heavy things around. I once moved 3 large metal cabinets on it at one time. It also is handy for my ATV strap down 15 gal. electric sprayer when it's time to apply weed killer.

 

[jas67]

When we got our wood stove insert (about 550lbs), I used my B7100 (w/ FEL) to drive it around to the back of the house, and lift it up onto our deck. I didn't have the forks yet, but the woods FEL had skidloader-style flat bottom bucket that it strapped in nicely. This made the job MUCH easier, as there was 4" of snow in the ground, and it is up hill one story (raised ranch, exposed basement in front) to get around back. There was no way the delivery truck was going to make it up the hill, and we didn't want to have to go up the steps inside the house with a 550 lb insert.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

May I ask what brand of forks y'all are using on you BX's? I'm shopping now and trying to settle in on a pair. I'm thinking that the purchase should be in line with the size of the machine, but there are still so many different designs.

Don't know that mine have a brand. I traded my big forks that had the SS Quick Attach that was for my L3240HST to Barlows for mine that attach to the lip of the bucket as seen in the picture. Not to expensive.

 

[BigD23]

Since we have our tractors, all we need now are obstacles to overcome.

Don

 

[8x56mn]

payneforks.com excellant product

 

[Tom_H]

A FEL is a versatile tool. Way back in the archives, probably in a thread that's been inactive for 5 or more years, there was a list of unusual ways people were using their FELs. One guy had built a little painter's platform on his and could have a partner move and lift him from spot to spot as he painted. Another showed a pic of a full sized utility tractor on a beach and a huge great white shark a guy had "caught" with the FEL of his tractor.

Another old thread was about unusual uses of tractors. I told of a story I read where some guy used his tractor to wind up a catapult or trebuchet so he could hurl stuff. I know this is getting seriously off topic (John and I like to do that sometimes) but there are people who use those things to fling dead cows in cow flinging contests. Seems back in the medieval days they not only flung rocks, but diseased animals were shot over castle walls as a biological weapon. They employed one guy, born with no olfactory receptors, to catch, breed, and shoot skunks over enemy walls.

 

[Cruisin]

May I ask what brand of forks y'all are using on you BX's? I'm shopping now and trying to settle in on a pair. I'm thinking that the purchase should be in line with the size of the machine, but there are still so many different designs.

BXpanded.
Here Pallet and Brush Forks
Good stuff

 

[TheFlatlander]

That looks like a really deluxe seat on the FEL of the Kubota. I thought the seat that came with the BX2660 was really nice. Is Kubota doing that seat warranty exchange thing again?

 

[oldballs]

BXpanded.
Here Pallet and Brush Forks
Good stuff

Thanks folks. The idea to buy brush forks vs simple pallet forks appeals to me, especially for these SCUT's because they would be more versatile. Thus one could load/unload a sofa, a rototiller or various other stuff, as well as smaller brush piles. I just hate to unload the money for two or three attachments. I've been doing all this stuff for 35 years by hand loading and burning and shoving with my Case 448.