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So Yooperpete, when is your tractor tool rack coming out?
Any pics?
I'm still looking for a good solution for tools on the trail.
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That sounds pretty useful. Would it be possible to mount a chainsaw and a gallon or two of fuel on it?
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No, it currently isn't made to handle a saw & gas, however, if you look at my Bad River site, you will see that we show a cargo carrier inserted into a hitch adapter carrying a chain saw, gas, oil and shelled corn.Are you planning to use the 3 point for other implements while carrying a saw?I have extra holes in the frame for adding some more stuff like a box.
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What I'd like to do is use the Bad River hitch I already have to tow around my big chipper and use a tool rack to carry a timber jack, chainsaw and 2-cycle mix. Now I put the chainsaw and fuel on the floorboard but it's not very convenient to have them rolling around. I sometimes put 'em in the bucket but I use that a lot for carrying firewood while I'm out cutting.
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Yeah, well, the perfect tool rack would support three chainsaws. The little and big one and the one on a pole.
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Ken, you forgot the area to hold the pain medicine! Your solution is simple...on your wife's tractor you mount the second rack and there you go. You now have all the saws and a supervisor or helper or both. You'll have to tell us which.
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The pain meds store nicely in the tiny "tool box" built into the left fender. That's about all that fits in there.
Maybe my wife would follow me around carrying all the equipment? I'm sure she could handle a cooler too.
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Ken, we use a rack that has a narrow slit in it and clamps to the one of the arms of the FEL. The saw blade goes down into it like a holster and is secured there by a rubber bungee cord. It will hold up to 3 saws. On the other side is a rack almost exactly like what landscapers use to mount gas cans on the side of their trailers, it holds a gas can and bar oil.It is something easily made up yourself.Best of luck.
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Murf, that's a good idea but it probably wouldn't work in my circumstance because of the close quarters around the trees. The loader arms often swipe trees and branches and it wouldn't be good to bang the saws into trees while driving through the woods. An arrangement that would keep the saws somewhere inside the four wheels would be best. Yoopers idea of having it above the 3ph area would be perfect if it could be made to work.
Once again I find myself wishing I could weld.
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Wow, I don't know what happened to my pictures. There were at least twenty before. There will be a whole bunch of broken picture links now.
I thought about the clamp-on-the-rollbar thing before and thought it wouldn't work for some reason, but can't exactly why. Maybe it was because it would interfere with the backhoe when that was attached.
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Ken, do the same thing I was talking about but mount it on the inside of the FEL arms. It may restrict you from lowering them 100% when the saws are there, but that shouldn't be a big issue. The other way you could possibly do it is to make up a rack that mounts to the locking pins for the fold-down ROPS. That way you could quickly put it on & off so it wouldn't interfere with your B/H operation.Best of luck.
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That might work, I'd have to do some fitment to see. I worry about the front tires hitting the saw bar as they turn. Or are you talking about the saw bar being parallel to the FEL arms?
Yoopers rack might be made to work if there were some sawbar holster type slots with rubber bungees to restrain the bars.
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There are some good ideas here. I think I'll wait until Yooper releases his new rack to see what it's like. If it doesn't do everything (does anything?) maybe it would be a good basis to build on. Murf's loader arm idea is worth further investigation too.
Although it would be most convenient to have the saws on the tractor they are most often used in conjunction with the chipper so I could hang a rack on one fender of the chipper or build something that sits on the tongue. The pole saw may fit lengthwise somewhere there too.
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Bad River was nice enough to send me a packet of drawings and pictures of the utility rack. It looks like it would be nice for long handled tools.
I'll have to do some checking to see if it will work with my Top and Tilt setup. With TnT the right lift arm is replaced by a really fat hydraulic cylinder (probably 6" diameter). As it tilts the geometry of the 3ph changes and I'll have to see how far it moves to be sure it wouldn't contact the racks vertical support.
I looked further into Murf's suggestion of hanging the chainsaws off the lift arm. There's only a couple of inches of clearance where the chain bar would fit between the loader mount/dismount bracket and the hard lines on the inside of the loader arm. That seems a little too tight for comfort but a holster type box could probably be strapped tight to the top of the loader arm with a bungee holding the saw in place horizontally.
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Yooper, thanks for your thoughts. How long a piece of the square tubing does the pinch style require to pinch down on? I wouldn't want you to fab something, it would be easy to make a wooden one here.
I'll have to measure up the chainsaws but I don't have cases for them. They are put away on a piece of scrap carpet that gets thrown on the burn pile now and then but they really don't leak much unless I get sloppy with the oil filler.
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