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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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Ken:
A second tool rack offered pinches on the square tubing of the hitch receiver and that may get around your TnT situation. A wood box could be fabricated to hold you stuff and angle irons could be built to hold the box in place from some of the extra frame holes supplied in the tool rack.
The tool rack was designed more for your average homeowner for holding shovels, racks, brooms, etc.
If you laid all your saws and fuel cans out on the floor and compressed them like in storage you could measure this and give me an idea of the required footprint required for a box (i.e 16" x 36", etc.) and we could fab something up.
Do you put your saws in cases? I have a Homelite, so it must be stored in a molded case since the chain lub oil drips everywhere when setting). Once it has leaked a pint or quart of oil I pour it out when starting a brush fire.
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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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Hey yooper..... tried to find Bad River on google..... are you still in business?
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I shut Bad River down. It was more of a hobby business that wasn't making any return on investment. Still have a couple of hitch adapters left. I felt the products were good but couldn't get a broad enough audience. In addition to the hitch adapter, the tool rack and rear ballast were good as well. Our initial patented product was a pickup rear bumper step. GM now has one formed within its bumper. Ford has a flip down step with hand rail. Atleast their engineers found me and liked the product.
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I would be happy to take one of the hitch adapters off your hands. What is the best way? I can send a check.
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I sent a private message thru TP giving my contact information. Thanks!
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