Storing 3PH Attachments

[Anonymous Poster]

I have a three car garage i keep my tractor and attachments in. I have other stuff in their too. I was wondering what is the best way to stor by attachments. Like my finish mower, Landscape Rake, and Blade. I want to keep them inside but don't want them taking up a bunch of my room. I also want to keep them accessible because I change attachments a lot. Any ideas on how to do this??

Dave

 

[Will_C]

Dave; If you search the site, you should find some ideas on making dollies to slide the equipment around. Quite a few people do this.
Will

 

[BrettW]

Clearly a man in need of 2 more tractors.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Dave,

A trip to HomeDepot for some 2.5 inch wheels and some 2 x 4 or 2x 6 studs, 3 inch screws and glue, carriage bolts is all you need. I have all my toys, I mean tools on dollies. It is a lot easier to get them on an off the tractor and move them around the shed.

Here is a link to a post I made with a picture of one I made for my snowblower.
web page

Have fun

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Guy I know built some real nice 'shelving' and stacks all his attachemnts in his barn. Then uses the FEL to pick and pull what he wants.

Ken H.

 

[TC18guy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Guy I know built some real nice 'shelving' and stacks all his attachemnts in his barn. Then uses the FEL to pick and pull what he wants. )</font>

<font color="black"> </font> I just did the same thing for my JD210 attachments (snow blower, mower deck, front blade, tiller). I built a good frame out of 2X4's & 4x4's with 3/4" T&G shelves. I use the TC18 FEL to move them around. Works great and I have all that occupying a space of 5'X4' (about 6' high).

I was thinking of doing the same for my new 3ph attachments, but they are alot heavier and don't fit into the FEL the way the JD attachments do. This is probably the route I will go, but I'll be watching this thread for other suggestions. Eventually, when my yard starts growing I'll probably be storing the FEL more often also.... maybe.

 

[Soundguy]

Sounds like you need box dollies.. or similar.. heavy duty flower pot dollies... as for stacking.. I guess you could paletize every thing and use a scaffolding rack system.. but I don't have any experience there.. I just set my stuff on wood or concrete blocks to keep it of fhte ground.

Soundguy

 

[RMulkey]

I ended up buying some heavy duty pallet racks from a store that went out of business. You can find them by searching for "store liquidators". I ended up with 2 sets of 4x8x10' 40,000lb racks for $45 each. Funny thing was that I originally went the the store to buy lumber to build racks. The lumber price was much higher than the racks. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[chevy]

Dave,

I am attaching some pictures of how I store mine.

Chris

 

[chevy]

Picture of tiller.

 

[chevy]

Picture of grader blade.

 

[chevy]

Pictures of them parked.

 

[Casimir]

Here's a picture of how not to store them. Plan to build a barn this summer/fall, with at least a covered porch area to store them. As you can see, color coordinated they ain't. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Casimir]

The rest of them.

 

[frank_f15]

best bet is to store them an some kind of movable dollies. u can move them and much easier to hook up when u can jockey them around. they all take up space.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I made a 2X4 & caster dolly for my TSC carryall and it works great but I struggled coming up with a 2X4 design for my First Choice tiller. There is not many flat areas on the bottom of a tiller! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

For the tiller, I bought two pieces of ¼ X 3 inch channel (about 16 inches long) and put heavy-duty casters on the ends of each channel. I slide the channel over the depth runners on the tiller and insert a 3/8 inch pin through the channel to secure it to the runner. The pin goes through the channel, on top of the runner so that it can’t fall off. It works very well.

John

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

Any chance you could post a couple of pictures of your set up for those of us who don't visualize well from the printed word? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I would be happy to post pictures but my digital camera quit last week. I plan to order a new one... should have it in a couple of weeks. Here is a picture of the dolly that I made for the carryall several months ago. I did not take pictures of the dolly for the tiller but I will do so as soon as I get my new camera.

John

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Gary.. I did not get a new camera but my old camera started working again. I think I have a bad set of rechargeable bats.

Attached is a picture of the dollies that I made for my tiller. I have a dolly on each runner. If you want more detailed pictures let me know and I will take the dolly off the tiller and photo from various views. They are simple to make and they work very well.

John

 

[bnixon]

Here are the dollies I built for my Box Blade.