What's the handiest

Anonymous-0 · Dec 16, 2013

thing you ever built? For me it would be the rock rake on my 420 crawler, followed by my dump trailer.

37chief · Dec 16, 2013

Not for my tractor, but I would have to say my log splitter. this time of year I use it all the time. I split enough wood for 2-3 day's, Never can get caught up. Always find something more exciting to do. Stan

Wile E · Dec 16, 2013

My house.
Hey, Ya gotta live somewhere.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 16, 2013

This I built, very handy:

Anonymous-0 · Dec 16, 2013

I am looking for a Sears Suburban like that. I hope that one didn't go to the crusher.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 16, 2013

I have a couple dozen Surburbans to sell. My email is open.

TGIN · Dec 16, 2013

Harvy2 , I have a powerking like yours and made a 3 pt hitch for it and have 3pts on my welder , torch set , power hacksaw and several other things . Makes moving things around alot easyer with my bad back , legs and knees . My shop is not real big and I keep things in another shed when I dont need them .

Dick2 · Dec 16, 2013

They all were - that's why we built them!

Sunflower header for the combine, box scraper, dozer for the HD7, adjustable salt block holder inside the pole barn that could be raised as the manure pack built up, and several more that don't come to mind right now.

deene · Dec 16, 2013

have several of them near Jefferson city mo

Fergienewbee · Dec 16, 2013

Well, I haven't built it yet, but I'd like to make an angle iron cradle I can bolt to my carry-all for hauling wood. My wood box has been rebuilt several times and it still keeps falling apart.

Larry

fixerupper · Dec 16, 2013

(quoted from post at 13:03:22 12/16/13) thing you ever built? For me it would be the rock rake on my 420 crawler, followed by my dump trailer.

h man, I've cobbled together so many things over the years. I guess the longest lasting and probably handiest is the grapple claw I made for the DuAl loader I had on the 630. I made it somewhere in the late 70's and used it till three years ago when I gave the loader to a young man who put the loader and claw on his 630.

The latest is an oil evacuation system I made for the new shop. It's the bottom of a 55 gallon drum with little casters mounted to the bottom. There's a handle attached so it can be shoved under the truck or tractor to catch the oil. A suction hose is attached to the bottom. The hose goes to a pump that sucks the oil out and pumps it to a 550 gallon barrel in the cold storage side of the building. We drain the oil into it, flip the switch to turn on the pump, wait a minute , and when we pull it back out from under the vehicle it's empty. There's a screen in it to catch the oil plug if it's dropped and the filter can sit on the screen to drain out. I wish I would have made this thing years ago. I think I have a pic of it on the cellphone.

Bottom pic is the drain pan in storage. It seems like a little oil still ends up on the floor but it's not much. Jim

old-9 · Dec 16, 2013

Set of forks for a cat #1 threepoint hitch. It is on one of my Fords almost all of the time. I put anything I can on a pallet to move for storage. Can pick and move pretty large logs for firewood. I hold the logs up while I saw them , cut one off one end , then one off the other. When I get close I only cut 3/4 of the way through. The most used implement I have. joe

JayinNY · Dec 16, 2013

Looks like you have the same tsc happy harvest air tank as I
have, except mines red! Lol

JohnDeereJimOhio · Dec 16, 2013

Lets see a pic, I have a 420c and need a rock rake

fixerupper · Dec 16, 2013

The air tank is my homemade tire bead blaster. I know, I should buy a factory made one for safety reasons. Jim

Paul from MI · Dec 16, 2013

Wood splitter I built for my JD A. Not the most powerful or convenient, but I have split 12-14 cords of wood each year with it since 1978. Cost $85 to build, best money I have ever spent, except for my marriage license.

Fawteen · Dec 16, 2013

I've built all sorts of junk. Some handy, some that worked better in my mind than they did in fact.

Probably the most used:

A subframe that goes in place of the bucket on my FEL. It will accept a set of forks with a hydraulic "third arm" to clamp stuff in place or my cut-down snow plow blade.

A hydraulic dump trailer using a 6HP Honda engine to run an old self-contained PTO pump off a 1 ton dump.

A small screener run by a 5HP Tecumseh for screening out compost.

big jt · Dec 16, 2013

So many I can't name just one.

This fall I took a roller stand that wasn't worth much as that and made it into a support for oil cans. Makes changing oil in the semi and tractors much easier.

Slapped together a couple of hand dollies for trailers.

In about 30 minutes made a ball hitch for tractor 3pt, haven't used it in a while but that one was made when the cattle were in the barn, needed to be loaded out and route to back trailer up to door was foot deep mud.

Gas powered hydraulic pump out of junk laying around.

Jib boom for forklift.

Just a few I have done. Sure lots of us here have done a bunch of these I know for a fact that fixerupper has many around his place.

JT

BhB · Dec 17, 2013

I have a Sears Suburban has mower deck and snow plow. Email me I would like to sell it.
Bill

fixerupper · Dec 17, 2013

Big JT also built that adjustable loading dock at the Albert City Threshing Show. Inarguably the sturdiest and handiest dock for many miles around. Jim

MSS3020 · Dec 17, 2013

built a hydrolic lift for my folks pull behind aerator. Also built a air packer for my 273 which works really well..

Anonymous-0 · Dec 17, 2013

I'd like pictures, location, and prices.
I pay cash.

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NoNewParts · Dec 17, 2013

3-point forks
I drop all my implements onto big machinery shipping pallets,
easily movable

removed the bucket on an old loader tractor
brackets to accept a 3-point A-frame
that has a 2" receiver tube.
slip in hooks, extensions, hitchballs, whatever
lifts much higher than a boom pole and is more
controllable

Anonymous-0 · Dec 17, 2013

I would like pictures, location, and prices.
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Anonymous-0 · Dec 17, 2013

I'd be interested if it's somewhat close to Jefferson City, MO. I'd like pictures, location, and prices. I pay cash.

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Anonymous-0 · Dec 17, 2013

I need to learn pics for here. Maybe sometime. The "frame" of the rake is a 5' piece of heavy I-beam. The brush guard part is built on the top. The top end of the teeth go under the top side of the I-beam while the mid-point of the teeth go into a shallow notch in the bottom flange with the rest of the tooth (10-12") projecting down and angling out. I used 1x3 solid steel for the teeth with narrow side towards the front.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 17, 2013

steve_in_mo

I didn't know my email wasn't open, try this again,with your email.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 17, 2013

Still no luck with email. My cell phone number is five seven three eight six four one zero zero eight.

Bob in WY · Dec 17, 2013

Here is a system I built for my ATV for doing small projects. A variety of implements fit it. Box scraper, rake with scarifier, back blade, bank of S-tines. It saved me a ton of time plus neighbors hired me to do work for them.[/img]

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