poleframer Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Guess this would go in the tool section. This thing is just too handy, only 3' wide, it'll pic a thousand lbs, can drive it around in my shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fe-Wood Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I WANT ONE :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Where do I que-up? Love the look all round too! Regards Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marksnagel Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Great little toy! I also want one. But, you had better keep it hidden from the bladesmiths, the chain belt on the motor in the third picture would make a nice knife billet. Mark<>< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BM454 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I was thinking nice chain for a knife ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Ritter Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 That defiantly looks fun to play with. That thing is awesome. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Sure beats a ramp and a cant hook (grin) Do I see a blueprint in the works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted January 30, 2011 Author Share Posted January 30, 2011 Those chains arent hard to get, it's out of a toyota transfer case, lots of transfer cases have them. Not too hard to drive a pin out and shorten, I suppose ya could put in longer pins and make any width you want. A friend got an old skidder, needed engine work. Pullin the detroit, with the bell housing was about its limits, I put it in his shop for him. Another truck part I used was a 1 ton truck hub, cut the axle housing off, and attached a ram to one of the lug stud holes for the pivot under the mast, that rotated side to side on a turntable. Thinking of using a truck hub for a rotating boom in the shop. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of my old trucks, haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptree Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 What did it start out as when new? Trencher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Good guess, it was a Yanmar C10R tracked dumper, had a small dumptruck like bed on it. Then I added a blade, then I thought a little boom would be handy, kinda transformed over a few years. I can take the boom and all off with 8 bolts, and a couple quick connects and put a dump bed on. My shop hydraulic pump was down, had to turn a pulley for that pump, so I plugged the tractor into the system and ran my lathe and my press off it. Also have a wood splitter to plug into it. One year I was doing work for the forest service, building fence, I mounted an auger on it, made racks on the sides to carry materials. Built some trail with it, have a couple buckets for it, an 8" and a 12". But it aint a backhoe, thick roots stop it pretty quick. Been thinking of making some kind of powered toothed blade like a small stump grinder disk to mount on the bucket bracket for that situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Guess while I'm going through some pics, here's some of what I do. Part of getting a forge together is that on the larger log jobs I put the posts and beams together with plate steel splined into the joints, and I'd like to play some steelwork out into view. Couple of a carport I did, and a log house I worked on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Oh, and the snowthrower. I just have too much fun out here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Great stuff! nice veiws! what a life I love it, thenks for posting. Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Folks have way too much fun with toys like those! When I was at a scrapyard Saturday picking up a steel beam for my shop the owner was cleaning out the bed of a truck substantially bigger than mine, then he lifted it up over my truck and the rest of the ground clutter and carried it out to the guy buying it---about 10' in the air...nice manipulator... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poleframer Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Over at machine builders net some guys are into building mini articulated machines, or adding a front end loaders to garden tractors. I think a number of guys here could really benefit with scrapping together a little yard buggy. Those garden tractors (not the murry riding mowers) are built well, and many like the JD 140 or 300 series have hydrostatic drives, and hydraulic ports to tap into. They pop up on CL pretty often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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