3 PT Carryall box ?

[cowboy357]

Great buy on the lumber. I can never seem to find anything useful that is used and at a good price. I've been looking for a good tiller for about six months and the used ones just aren't that much cheaper than a new one from TSC.

My F13D came with ag tires and was rough on the yard and kind of bouncey on pavement also. I think my rear wheels are 16 inch, and I got a set of used pickup truck tires and mounted them on the 16 inch rims. I still have the ag tires on the front, but think I might change them to a turf type tire because the ride is still bouncey on hard ground. The rear tires are great though, and it's a cheap fix as opposed to buying tractor turf tires. Used tires were about $20 each, including mounting. I don't do a lot of tough things with the Yanmar, but the tires have stayed on the rims just fine and I've it this way for about three years.

The one thing you need to make sure of, is that the perimeter of the tires you get are the same as what you replace. This is important in 4 wheel drive in that the perimeters of the front tires and rear are relatively matched, through front/rear axle ratio to work together.

More Great info Thanks Ron. I never even considered using other tire. I just had to look & the rears are 8/16 s . so I might look into that . Thanks again , Bob

 

[GreenLawnFarm]

the ballast boxes work well for carrying tools. i like the idea of the carry-all. for a little over $100, i may just have to look into that also.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I bought one at TSC at the end of June and just put a platform on it. I waffled about how to build sides (swinging in like in the videos vs. fixed), and decided to make the sides drop-in stake-side style. The back will likely be a 2X10 or two that I drop into slots in each side. I'll likely add various tool carriers, too (like the chainsaw scabbard), so I can load up with wood and still carry my tools. It'll probably be winter before I get this done, though!
The numerous postings here have helped me a lot with design ideas and construction techniques.
BOB

 

[Northland]

I have TSC carry-all that I added planks to but I never use it as I always have my box blade on these days.

This is a nice design - wilsonoutdoors.com - The Ultimate Tractor Carryall Project

 

[cowboy357]

Thanks Guys . Ron do you have any pics of those truck tires on your yanmar ? I just cant quite picture how they would look, but steering torwards the idea .


Thats pretty much what I,m thinking Bob . since I have the 2x10,s , I,m not one to make things fancy , Plus the wifes really after Me to get this thing done , Which I haven,t even started yet .

Northland , This will be the only thing on the back of this little tractor & i doubt it will ever come off , I,m still thinking I need to add some weight to the front though . As if She has it idling to high She tends to pull wheelies now & then . .

Hopefully I,ll get something done this week , If so i,ll post a few pics. But trust me it wont be perty. . Bob

 

[rd_macgregor]

The carryall alone is fairly heavy, then add a couple of hundred pounds of boards (or steel box!), then fill it with firewood or compost or somesuch and you might, indeed need some weight in the front...especially if the front pops up now without any weight in the rear.
I have an FEL on my Kioti DK45 and it is likely to be loaded with wood or gravel or something whenever the carryall is loaded, so I don't think I'll have to add more weight beyond that.
Not counting the planning time, it took me about 4 hours to put together just the bottom and back for the platform (measuring [twice], cutting, drilling, bolting, screwing, and lots of trips to the basement shop for tools I forgot on the last trip). I still need to build sides, some sort of back gate and various tool holders before I'm done. It will be pretty heavy by then and I'll probably have $400 (Canadian) in materials into it! For all that effort, I hope I get a lot of use out of it.
BOB

 

[Ron D.]

Hey Bob. Be sure and check the distance center to center of the pre-drilled holes on the carryall. I think mine were 8 inches. I attached my individual pieces of wood directly to the carryall frame, rather than attaching wood runners to the frame and then attaching the individual pieces of wood to the runners. If you attach like I did, and use all 2x10's, the holes may not appropriately line-up to the center of your boards. I had a little problem having the pre-drilled holes center the way I did it, because at the 90 degree of the carryall where the back meets the bottom, the holes are the same distance from the 90 degree angle. So by butting the lower piece of wood for the back at the bottom of the frame (where the back meets the bottom of the frame), your using two inches (actually the width of board) of the distance for the first board at the bottom. I'm not great at figuring these types of things out, but I used all 2x8's except for a 2x10 at the top of the back and at the end of the bottom. This shows a little bit of frame at the top and the wood extends a little beyond the frame at the bottom. This keeps me from catching my leg on the frame as I'm loading unloading.

I don't have any pictures of how the tires look but I will take some and figure out how to get them on the site.

Been a little busy trying to improve our yard. This last weekend my wife and I prep'd about 10,000 sq. ft of yard area for seeding. I had a little yard tractor disc that I piled about 300 lbs on and used that behind the Yanmar, and then plug aerated the dog out of it. We then spread about 12 cu. yds. of compost over the area, re-aerated it, put down about four times the amount of bermuda seed required, and then smoothed everything with a homemade harrow. Talk about luck, just before and after seeding we got a great rain.

Yesterday, I had three pallets of St Augustine delivered about 7:00 pm, and my wife and I laid two of them up until 10:00 pm. This was the first time I really used the carryall for anything except ballast for my loader. We loaded it to the max it with sod and filled the loader bucket with grass also. You can never have too much equipment when doing this kind of stuff.

I have pics of the seeding project and will post thos on the project page as soon as I figure out how to get pics on the site. I'll take some of the Yanmar tires and get those up too.

Hope the carryall narrative isn't too confusing.

 

[cowboy357]

Nope Ron I think I got ya , thanks for taking the time , Something I hadn,t thought about .

I,d love to see some pics of the yard project as well . I had our yard pretty tore up in the spring , brought more dirt up from my pond project & leveled it out & got it seeded to late in the year. But We,ve been waterin the heck out of it & overseeding it every 3 weeks or so as it fills in . Just finally got a good 3 inches of rain the other day So its looking decent . Probablly more burmuda & crabgrass then fesue. But still better then mud. .

As far as the pics. Just upload them to the puter. then scroll down where it says manage attachments click that up to 4 pics, hit upload & they post then if you want to add more just do the same thing over again. Really simple after you do it a few times . Looking forward to the pics. thanks again Ron & good luck with your yard project . Bob

 

[studor]

Here are pics of one I built using scrap PT pieces from the clearance bin at home despot, scrap conduit and pvc, a piece of vinyl decking for the chainsaw holder and four casters from HF to roll it around the shop floor.The back "gate" uses stake pockets and rack corners to attach. The frame is a TSC one with the top link hole annoyingly drilled for a cat 2 pin
It rarely comes off the tractor in spring summer fall

 

[Northland]

Nice job Studor! You got everything on that rig