Wow nice. I’ve been thinking about something similar. Looks very well made. What are the corner posts? (More than one piece of wood screwed together?) What are the post footings, did you pour them or get them precast?
Very nice!
What size are the horizontal beams? The ones holding up the BB and grapple.
I've been wanting to do something like this eventually. Just not sure how big the beams need to be to hold stuff. Your grapple looks like a heavier duty one, as is mine. I appreciate any insight.
Thanks guys. Disclaimer that my projects usually have something that’s not ‘necessary’ or ‘normal’ but the O.C.D. / sense of aesthetics takes over.
The posts are screwed on to 4x4 exterior grade post brackets and those brackets are center bolted down using threaded j-hook concrete anchors. The brackets sit on / anchors are in concrete using sono tube forms (hand dug post holes for the tubes with carried in, mix on site style concrete bags.) I’ve had good luck with this approach over the years for keeping posts secured and the ends dry. But yes like any post setting you really have to be exact with your j-hook placements to have things be square and get the spacing you want.
The corner posts have been face clad with treated 1” x 6” or 1 x 8” ripped to needed widths is what you are noticing on appearance as something more than typical 4x4 (with sections of 2”x4” “filler” added on the posts between where the horizontal boards attach and before the 1”x went on.)
Yeah I debated what to frame the pallet shelf with. I ended up using 2”x6” lag bolted on after doing some figuring (admittedly it’s hard to shake the default of something more like a residential floor or deck.) It didn’t complain a bit when loaded up, but I certainly wouldn't fault anyone going a bit stouter. It’s tractoring so there’s always the chance for ‘unintended events’ that could make a mess of things. One preventative I do is when I’m setting a load (particularly the grapple) on a shelf is I’ll turn the tractor off once I’m ready for placement. This way I can drop the load down via hydraulic release but I can’t accidentally ‘push down’ on the shelf. Bit of overkill maybe but so far no regrettable moments. I’m thinking hard on a wood chipper is why I didn’t go full width on the shelf and left a full height opening on the one end.
