Plywood cary-all for the FEL???

dirtdiggerdug · Nov 14, 2006

Here are some pictures of the carry-all I made. Good for bulky, lighter weight material. Made from ½" plywood, 2x4's, and furring strips, screwed and glued. I believe I used ⅜" bolts to fasten at each corner of FEL. Probably takes five minutes or so to install or remove. Only bad thing is I have to remove the tooth bar I just made in order to install the carry-all. I might try to make some modifications to the carry-all so I can use it with the tooth bar. Hope this gave you some ideas.

kwolfe · Nov 15, 2006

dirtdiggerdug said:
Here are some pictures of the carry-all I made. Good for bulky, lighter weight material. Made from ½" plywood, 2x4's, and furring strips, screwed and glued. I believe I used ⅜" bolts to fasten at each corner of FEL. Probably takes five minutes or so to install or remove. Only bad thing is I have to remove the tooth bar I just made in order to install the carry-all. I might try to make some modifications to the carry-all so I can use it with the tooth bar. Hope this gave you some ideas.

That is a neat idea. I bet the install wouuld be even faster if you simply ran straps in order to hold it on. I saw that you have it bolted to the bucket.

dirtdiggerdug · Nov 15, 2006

Strap option does sound pretty good. Never though about doing that. Also would make it easier to modify for use with tooth bar, because carry-all mounting holes are covered by tooth bar side mounts.

BXRICK · Nov 16, 2006

Aplogize in advance for not pictures - the camera is on Christmas list.

Previously, I loaded firewood into the BX bucket and dumped it in the garage and stacked it. But that's silly, since to move the wood to the stove, I then had to reload it into a smaller hand carrier, and lug it upstairs. In smallish quantities. And, I've now moved each piece of firewood what seemed like hundreds of times.

So, I built a box:
The box is about 2' deep, 2' wide and a little under 4' wide and just fits inside the bucket on the BX.
The box is on 4 3" casters.
Two of the casters sit inside the bucket.
I use a small rachet tiedown strap to hold it in the bucket, hooking the hooks on the strap over the lip on the bucket.

To get firewood in the house, I run the box on wheels outside to the deck. Then, strap it into the bucket (which can reach over the deck stairs), drive it down to the wood shed, load it up. Then, I drive back to the deck, unstrap the wheeled box, wheel it into the house and leave it by the wood stove.
This reduces the handling of the firewood several times.
The box holds a significant quantity of wood.

I've thought about using bucket forks to simply pick up the box. I'm not sure if installing and uninstalling bucket forks would be faster or slower than simply using the strap. Both are quite quick, and the strap is cheaper.

53gravely · Nov 16, 2006

Dirtdiggerdug....you're a #$%^ genius! That's just what I'm looking for with two mods:
1) on/off in 30 seconds thus the webbing tie-downs to the bucket hooks that kwolfe suggested. The brushhog resides on the 3pt. all summer and a snowplow all winter plus I want to be able to dump it on top of the burn pile....rules out the back.
2) Too lazy to paint it so its got to fold flat inside the already crowded barn--since I'm a rep in the door business, hinges can fall off the back of the proverbial truck pretty easy.

I've got a little Boston Whaler in the one bay in the garage and the Kubota in the other. The MMMower (that I regret buying) sits against the back wall so there's no room to drive in with forks, so that's out.

Thanks all, TBN rocks!

Scott, Pawlet Game supper was a hoot as usual. Plenty of "Mooseballs" this year.....someone in town whacked a moose (not sure if by gun or by car). Moose, Elk, Bear and venison. Went with the neighbors on Tadmer and at $10 and BYOB it's all good. Hunting stunk....too warm....there's something about rifle season in VT in a Tee shirt thais just WRONG. I'll be up muzzleloader 1st/2nd weekend of Dec.