Posthole Digger PHD stand

[GarthH]

I used the landpride phd for the first time yesterday. What a pig to get mounted! Maybe I was spoiled by using the quick for almost everything else.

Ive been trying to figure out what can make the hookup easier.

It seemed like being a one-man team that I was able to lift the gear box and slide the lower hitch link in at the same time. I eventually used a chain to hold the gear box up.

I was wondering if I had a auger on and sunk into the ground whether that would make the process easier? I was going to sink it into the ground where the PTO was level. Any thoughts? Any other ideas? Has anyone built or bought the stand? Do they help?

Thanks again

Garth

 

[6sunset6]

I keep the PHD on a special skid I built. It's 95 out or I would go take a picture. I bring the skid into the barn with forks and then hook up the phd to chain falls. Works well. I used to do that with almost everything until I got Pats quick connects.

 

[Timber]

I find this is the easiest thing to do with it. I back the tractor to the wall and set it down on a piece of
board. I put a chain with a couple of eye bolts into the wall. remove the pin on top of the gear box and lift
the boom off by hand and put the pin back in the gear box. pull the tractor forward. Then just take the boom
and the bridge off together and hang them on the wall on a couple of lag bolts. Takes minutes to do & it is
inside and out of the way. I takes longer to put my box blade on and thats on a pallet and jack.

 

[gotrocks]

I use a chain over the beam at the back of my shed. Just back up and swing into place. After hook up, raise enough to unhook the chain and "away we go"

See if the pic is clear enough.

 

[skipmarcy]

I use a chain over the beam at the back of my shed. Just back up and swing into place. After hook up, raise enough to unhook the chain and "away we go"

See if the pic is clear enough.

I hang mine exactly the same way, except from a large bent tree out back. Doesn't take much effort to hook it up or take it off.

 

[weldingisfun]

I used the landpride phd for the first time yesterday. What a pig to get mounted! Maybe I was spoiled by using the quick for almost everything else.

Ive been trying to figure out what can make the hookup easier.

It seemed like being a one-man team that I was able to lift the gear box and slide the lower hitch link in at the same time. I eventually used a chain to hold the gear box up.

I was wondering if I had a auger on and sunk into the ground whether that would make the process easier? I was going to sink it into the ground where the PTO was level. Any thoughts? Any other ideas? Has anyone built or bought the stand? Do they help?

Thanks again

Garth

Take a look at this thread http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/79999-yet-another-post-hole-digger.html?highlight=PHD. You will get lots of answers to your questions.

 

[firemanpat2910]

to answer your question, yes it is much easier if you drill a hole and leave it. I have not had any problems doing this with mine, but in some soils it might be difficult to get it back out if you left it in for a long time.

 

[Timber]

I would never leave anything buried in the dirt that I planed on keeping. In fact I would never leave anything sitting on bare ground I didn't want to rust away or rot

 

[EddieWalker]

In my last barn, I hung mine from a beam that I put in there. It was realy easy to hook it up and take it off this way. The picture posted by Gotrocks is very similar to how I did it. When I build my new storage shed, I'll do the same thing again. Until then, I drill mine into the ground about a foot and leave it there. The rest of it rests on some Preasure Treated blocks to keep it out of the dirt. This is also very easy to hook it up by yourself.

Eddie

 

[AlanB]

Somewhere here on TBN there is a picture of mine. And if I think of it, I will grab another and post it here.

We have a slightly different take on it than most folks.

My wife has a landscaping business. And our tractor revolves pretty much between a box blade and a PHD.

I built a freestanding 3 legged stand out of scap pipe I had laying around.

It has one back leg, and two side legs that are about in the middle.

What is different about us, is that we occasionally have to take ours to the customers house, so I wanted it easily portable.

I also suspend ours on two chains, one on the gearbox pivot, and one on the pipe beam center pivot. This allows it to hang there in almost exactly the position to hook it too the back of the tractor.

We use the Pat's easy change, back up to the lower pins and latch them in, then one hand on the main beam guides in the top link. The the PTO. Then lift with the 3 pt and disconnect the chains holding it too the stand.

It works very well for us.

I have to build another, as we got another PHD, it came with a 24" new bit for $300 so I could not pass it up.

I had seen one on here where they built one almost exactly like mine (they did theirs before me) using the end of a childs swingset that had the 3 leg configuration. If there was one easily available (I think my neighbor has a broke one ) that is the way I would go.

 

[bjcsc]

Easy to make. I made mine from 2 pieces of flatbar, some water pipe, some round stock, and 2 muffler clamps. I can back right into it - no wrestling...the rear stand, using the same bolt holes as the guard, just rotates forward out of the way, the two front pieces flip and get pinned back in upside down. It all goes with you.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

This is what I use. Very simple, easy to hook up by yourself. Some 4x4s and 2 Simpson brackets. Top cross piece lifts out after your all hooked up. PHD doesn't fight you, or twist on you. Takes only a few minutes to have installed. Total cost if you bought new wood & brackets, less than $20. Everybody comes up with a system that works good for them, this is just one more way to deal with storing your PHD.

 

[weldingisfun]

Use what Mother Nature provides.

 

[bg71361]

This is what I use. Very simple, easy to hook up by yourself. Some 4x4s and 2 Simpson brackets. Top cross piece lifts out after your all hooked up. PHD doesn't fight you, or twist on you. Takes only a few minutes to have installed. Total cost if you bought new wood & brackets, less than $20. Everybody comes up with a system that works good for them, this is just one more way to deal with storing your PHD.

Very nice Brian, I may use this one!
Thanks,
Bill

 

[GarthH]

Thanks for the photos everyone. You know what they say a picture is worth a million words.

Brian Probably a stupid question but I can't quite understand how you get the PHD off the stand. The crossbar looks fixed so the PTO and the hitch hookup have the crossmember going through?

Garth

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Thanks for the photos everyone. You know what they say a picture is worth a million words.

Brian Probably a stupid question but I can't quite understand how you get the PHD off the stand. The crossbar looks fixed so the PTO and the hitch hookup have the cross member going through?

Garth

Garth, the top cross 4x4 is only setting there and is easily removed after the PHD is hooked up and lifted with the hitch. The Simpson brackets are just a saddle to hold the cross 4x4. Does this make sense? Any other questions, please ask.

 

[AlanB]

See if I can post this evening............

Mine, holds in the position it sits on the tractor in, makes it easier (still wrestle at times) to get it on and off.