front hitch on cut

[MossRoad]

Or, you could get a Power Trac like mine and get a towing adapter and be all done.

 

[MossRoad]

This is what we used to stack hangars with. We had a ball hitch attachment for moving trailers with it, too. It moved up and down about a foot with the push of a lever. Very easy to move things with. We could move really large twin engine planes with these things. Amazing what a lawn tractor can do.

 

[farmboy12]

This is what we used to stack hangars with. We had a ball hitch attachment for moving trailers with it, too. It moved up and down about a foot with the push of a lever. Very easy to move things with. We could move really large twin engine planes with these things. Amazing what a lawn tractor can do.

Very interesting...


Kyle

 

[Leejohn]

MossRoad,
Your Power Trac looks like it would be the nuts for moving boats. I bet you can see the hitch real good.

 

[patrick_g]

A local trailer manufacturer uses a ball on the end of a pallet fork to manuever trailers in close quarters. The sketch posted earlier with the hydraulic lift is nice but tilts the ball when raised and lowered. A little more complicated device (parallelogram type arrangement) will raise and lower without tilting the ball.

I find the front bumper mounted receivers on my one ton Dodge to be pretty handy, even though not adjustable but for a situation where you do this a lot the hydraulics would be a terrific improvement to a static ball on the front of the tractor and wouldn't have to "stick out" all that far in front.

Pat

 

[jinman]

This is what we used to stack hangars with. We had a ball hitch attachment for moving trailers with it, too. It moved up and down about a foot with the push of a lever. Very easy to move things with. We could move really large twin engine planes with these things. Amazing what a lawn tractor can do.

Okay, I'll bite. Was the steering on the lawn tractors reworked to operate hydraulic rams and articulate the towing dolly for steering? None of the pictures are big enough to actually see the mechanism, but since the steering wheels were left in place, I can only assume they were not just to hold onto.

BTW: for all those who want to see the cutting edge mounted trailer balls, you could easily cut a window in the back of your loader bucket and cover it with expanded metal. Very few things you lift with the bucket will come through the expanded metal and you could see a center ball mount near the cutting edge. If you did this kind of thing a lot, that could let you easily use your FEL bucket. By welding a receiver tube inside the bucket, you could do the conversion quickly.

 

[J_J]

Why not just install a truck mirror on the hood to look down on the ball

 

[J_J]

OK, I finally found a picture of the ideal set up for me. These forks was purchased for about $160, and adapted to my
Power-Trac 1445. I also use it to lift other things, engines, tires, welder generators, etc.

 

[George2615]

Thanks All, what ever I come up with I will take pics and post...

Dan

Dan,
I did what JB did except he bolted his to the bucket. I reinforced the top of my bucket with a piece of 2x2 angle and welded a receiver in the middle.

 

[patrick_g]

Why not just install a truck mirror on the hood to look down on the ball

I have seen CCD "BACKUP" cameras with wireless remote LCD monitor for $60 that would give you a great view.

I use a convex mirror on a U shaped mount that fits over the top of the tailgate on my 1 Ton Dodge and gives a good view of the ball except when the lighting is not good like wrong sun angle, glare, and so forth (about 1/2 the time it is hard to see.) A spritz of white paint on the ball and a bit on top of the coupler really helps with the visibility.

Pat