CaveCreekRay
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L3800 HST, KingKutter box scraper, KingKutter 66" rake, County Pride Subsoiler
My used Kubota came with three nice KingKutter implements. Early on during our renovation of this house and barn, they lived inside the barn. After we moved in and my workshop was a storage facility for a year, things got tight. About nine months ago, the tiller and the rake got moved outside, placed on pallets, and tarped. I wanted to get them inside but other projects took my time. This week I got it done.
After craning these around in my barn using the FEL, I thought it safer to try and make carts to hold them so I could wheel them from storage to hook-up, use the implement, and then replace it on the cart and wheel it back out of the way when done.
I bought 4" and 5" wheels at Harbor Freight. I wanted little rolling resistance but as low a CG as possible. The rake is a light 300 lbs, the box scraper almost 400, and the tiller specs say it weighs 900 lbs. I didn't want the tiller falling off the cart -and on me.
I discovered the rake stands up easily and is really stable in that position. So I made the cart flat except for one stop to position the rake blades against to place it on the cart.
Once lowered on the cart, you simply disconnect the top link and swing it back on its butt where it sits very nicely. With the hitch portion up in the air, its very easy to wheel this implement around. All the carts have six wheels but this cart has 4" lighter gauge wheels, rated at 225 lbs each. The smaller wheels got the CG lower.
Hooking up is the reverse... just wheel the implement to the back of the tractor and lean it into the tractor so the lower pins hit the mark. On concrete, the cart makes wiggling the implement into position pretty easy.
The tiller cart would carry the largest load. One of my aims was to use up the considerable collection of lumber I had saved up from the house/barn renovation project. I had two shelving verticals that were just about the right size for the tiller so I trimmed them to the right length and then glued them together and added a 3/8 ply top.
One issue with the tiller is, the skids are above the times. So, to keep the CG low on this heavy cart, and keep the tiller good and stable on those skids, I cut out the center of the cart so the tines could dangle. It worked out really well...
Even without the center or any crossovers, the cart is rock solid with little if any flex. At almost 1000 lbs, its like dancin' with Grandma at times, it still wheels pretty easily. The 5" wheels are rated at 325 lbs each. The stability is very good.
The carts are built out of 2x6's and the tiller cart is doubled 2x6's. I used Gorilla Glue for strength and I have to say, with a little spray of water on both pieces before gluing, these carts are overbuilt. My neighbor gave me 15 gallons of free paint in a pretty decent color so that used up a little paint too.
My barn floor where the tractor and implements live is exposed aggregate but these still roll very easily. On the very slight slope on my drive where these were photographed, they almost rolled away on me...
Implements are not cheap and mine had sat out their entire life when I got them. I am glad to have room for them and to be able to get them back under cover.
I'll get the box blade cart made in the next couple of weeks.
Ray
After craning these around in my barn using the FEL, I thought it safer to try and make carts to hold them so I could wheel them from storage to hook-up, use the implement, and then replace it on the cart and wheel it back out of the way when done.
I bought 4" and 5" wheels at Harbor Freight. I wanted little rolling resistance but as low a CG as possible. The rake is a light 300 lbs, the box scraper almost 400, and the tiller specs say it weighs 900 lbs. I didn't want the tiller falling off the cart -and on me.
I discovered the rake stands up easily and is really stable in that position. So I made the cart flat except for one stop to position the rake blades against to place it on the cart.
Once lowered on the cart, you simply disconnect the top link and swing it back on its butt where it sits very nicely. With the hitch portion up in the air, its very easy to wheel this implement around. All the carts have six wheels but this cart has 4" lighter gauge wheels, rated at 225 lbs each. The smaller wheels got the CG lower.
Hooking up is the reverse... just wheel the implement to the back of the tractor and lean it into the tractor so the lower pins hit the mark. On concrete, the cart makes wiggling the implement into position pretty easy.
The tiller cart would carry the largest load. One of my aims was to use up the considerable collection of lumber I had saved up from the house/barn renovation project. I had two shelving verticals that were just about the right size for the tiller so I trimmed them to the right length and then glued them together and added a 3/8 ply top.
One issue with the tiller is, the skids are above the times. So, to keep the CG low on this heavy cart, and keep the tiller good and stable on those skids, I cut out the center of the cart so the tines could dangle. It worked out really well...
Even without the center or any crossovers, the cart is rock solid with little if any flex. At almost 1000 lbs, its like dancin' with Grandma at times, it still wheels pretty easily. The 5" wheels are rated at 325 lbs each. The stability is very good.
The carts are built out of 2x6's and the tiller cart is doubled 2x6's. I used Gorilla Glue for strength and I have to say, with a little spray of water on both pieces before gluing, these carts are overbuilt. My neighbor gave me 15 gallons of free paint in a pretty decent color so that used up a little paint too.
My barn floor where the tractor and implements live is exposed aggregate but these still roll very easily. On the very slight slope on my drive where these were photographed, they almost rolled away on me...
Implements are not cheap and mine had sat out their entire life when I got them. I am glad to have room for them and to be able to get them back under cover.
I'll get the box blade cart made in the next couple of weeks.
Ray
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