Still not dead, so made a boom pole

[cmyoung2]

We use a similar 3pt hitch to move stuff, primarily 20' trailers full of Christmas trees out of the field during harvest. Main design difference is ours are heavier and have a ball on top to move gooseneck trainers, usually just around the loading yard. They don't behave very well in the field(causing loss of bladder control ). Like the boom pole idea.

 

[HenryIV]

Good idea Bruce. :thumbsup:

If you use a receiver tube, here are a couple of ideas:

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You may have seen this from the Omni Mfg. Website:

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I had not seen it, but that's where I'm going. I like the way they used tube that could take an insert. That's what I like about your receiver tube suggestion, it can be offset, so it still allows another smaller tube to go inside that could be used to lift something light like a small truss. Those insert examples are great.

 

[Xfaxman]

I had not seen it, but that's where I'm going. I like the way they used tube that could take an insert. That's what I like about your receiver tube suggestion, it can be offset, so it still allows another smaller tube to go inside that could be used to lift something light like a small truss. Those insert examples are great.

The inserts are used with the Omni Transformer 3 point hitch:

You could make your inserts like the extra one I made for my shop crane:

 

[dickfoster]

Great post!

BTW here's a bumper sticker for your car. I suppose you could find a place on your tractor for it too, maybe your hitch of death.

 

[HenryIV]

Oh boy. Watching chuck2009. Addicted to his videos here. Best post in a while. Honestly I thought you would get a bunch of hate for the humour

I love hate. At least hate has some passion. I could certainly pixelate the anuses from my welds by then I wouldn稚 get any abuse from thousands of "when I wuz a nuclear pipeline welder" posters.

 

[HenryIV]

We need an update, did you complete the BOOM OF UNLIMITED LIABILITY?

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Slave driver!! Did my wife call you?

Yes, so that you would have something to look at in the comfort of your favourite chair, I ignored the hangover I had, and finished this. I also let it cool for paint and kept on working by feeding some honey bees who thanked me by stinging me through a welding glove, and cut 6/10ths of an inch of ****** stabilizer bar sold to me by A & I Products under the guise that it would fit a Ford 3600. It did not, and after speaking with the only Amber I've ever known who didn't get money stuffed into her knickers as a profession and never heard back from her, same as the other Ambers, I used a Chinese angle grinder and a Chinese cut off wheel to cut and weld the Indian (dot not woo woo) to cut and re-weld the bar. The other bar confirmed the correct length and I noticed the FoMoCo logo on it and I was sad how far we've fallen in manufacturing.

Speaking of shoddy workmanship, check out them welds!! 7024 at 120 AMPS baby!! Melts like butta. They had to pull the reactor rods out of the heavy water another inch when I struck that arc. 'Murica!

The little welds on the receiver tube were made by the underfed Chinese peasant children who supply Harbor Freight. That big honking metal loop came off a ship that moves asphalt from Venezuela. I was told they cannot use that kind anymore.


I wasn't able to bend it and I weigh an 8th of a ton.

 

[Xfaxman]

Thanks muchly, looks gooder-un :thumbsup:.

And you still can use a sliding insert for high lifts of lighter objects.

 

[kebo]

HenryIV, you have an odd sense of humor lol, I bet it would it be interesting to hang around for you for a while! But, your dog is obviously smarter than you, and better looking I'm sure!!!!

Seriously, that's a great job on the boom pole and I'm sure it will serve you well. Just don't let the safety police catch you toting big logs down the hill with it lol.

 

[stuckmotor]

That is one fine looking boom pole. I'd expect no less from a Georgia boy.

 

[dieselcrawler]

This has got me thinking... might have to make something of the sort for myself.

I have been using my box blade to skid logs, and shove brush back to make paths to the trees/logs. So keeping the box blade in place is mandatory. But using your boom pole idea, and making its mounting holes spacing to match my top link should be easy. I never adjust the top link, one it's set at dead level, as I don't need to cut, just scrape, both directions.