Unloading pickup with tractor

   / Unloading pickup with tractor #1  

JNB

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Location
West Palm Beach, FL
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2006 New Holland TC40
I bring compost with my pickup and my trailer (5x8). It is free but it has to be handloaded. I unload it at home - by hand also. My FEL is 6 ft wide so I cant fit it into the trailer or the truck. Is there someway of doing this without going overboard on the cost. I also have pallet forks for the FEL.
I am thinking if I could attach the scoop bucket that goes on the 3 point hitch to the FEL it would work or maybe not.
I have a New Holland TC40.
Thanks for your input
 
   / Unloading pickup with tractor #2  
There are some here on TBN who have used the Loadhandler with success. I picked one up at Harbor freight for about $80. WIll try it out in a couple of weeks when it warms up a bit.
 
   / Unloading pickup with tractor #3  
Hook a chain to trailer coupler and put it where you want it and just pick up trailer tongue with FEL = trailer dumped :D
:)
 
   / Unloading pickup with tractor #4  
Your dilemma is my main reason I don't run over to the horse farm and get some of their stuff. They'll even load it for me with their tractor's FEL.

Short of having one of those rotating bed bottoms (guess it's that Loadhandler mentioned) in the pickup, there's no easy way to get it out of the pickup other that with a scoop or shovel.

Ralph
 
   / Unloading pickup with tractor #5  
Check into dump trailer rental. Would be more than worth your while!
 
   / Unloading pickup with tractor #6  
Thinking of using a loadhandler on Item4. Figure the 48" bucket of the BX can start emptying the bed. Once the load is reduced, the Loadhandler could dump the rest.

Lbrown59 has used the loadhandler and has been pretty positive about it. I figure using it for half a bed or so should be OK.
 
   / Unloading pickup with tractor #7  
For the fruagally minded, how about a sheet of plywood with its end reinforced with steel bar bar stock, a couple of shackles and a chain hitched to your bucket? Back up tractor till pwd falls off the gate, (or remove the gate if the load is going to be too much for it) lift the bucket and voila, loadhandler from found materials! Or borrow your buddie's or my dump trailer...
 
   / Unloading pickup with tractor #8  
Lay a piece of chainlink fence, or similar, flat in the bed. Attach a board or piece of pipe (something about the width of the fence, but not as wide as the bed to avoid getting hung up on the tailgate) to the fence section near the tailgate. Load the pickup as normal. Once you get home, tie a chain/strap/whatever to the board/pipe near the tailgate, hook up the chain to the tractor and pull straight back. Everything will slide out with the chainlink fence. You may have to rake a little bit out, but still much faster than shoveling. This will work for the trailer as well. Kind of like a poor-man's Loadhandler.
 
   / Unloading pickup with tractor #9  
If you use a trailer dont get in the same predictament I got into.. The concrete would not slide out as planned, the trailer had to be lifted nearly vertical by the cherry picker :eek:

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   / Unloading pickup with tractor #10  
RickS said:
Lay a piece of chainlink fence, or similar, flat in the bed. Attach a board or piece of pipe (something about the width of the fence, but not as wide as the bed to avoid getting hung up on the tailgate) to the fence section near the tailgate. Load the pickup as normal. Once you get home, tie a chain/strap/whatever to the board/pipe near the tailgate, hook up the chain to the tractor and pull straight back. Everything will slide out with the chainlink fence. You may have to rake a little bit out, but still much faster than shoveling. This will work for the trailer as well. Kind of like a poor-man's Loadhandler.

That or the plywood idea, I like the chain link idea though I was thinking you could pull the bottom out if the load was sticking to the sides of the bed especially if there is no bed liner, there is a lot to get hung up on, so to improve on this idea just get a piece of fence twice as long as the bed, lay half down under the load and the other half over the top, pull on BOTH ends (with the tractor or tied to a tree), then there is no chance of it not coming out in one wad.

For the trailer try this!!!

JB,
 

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