Garden Tractor Dump Body

[oneparsec]

Has anyone converted and and added a dump body to a garden tractor? I've got an old Roper tractor thats been sitting in the back woods for a few years, (needs to be repowered). My wife has a hard time pushing the wheel barrow after cleaning out the stalls in our barn, and I thought if I could add a dump body to the tractor, it would make it much easier for her when I'm not around to help. Any idea's or suggestions? Anyone done this before?

 

[bobodu]

Don't laugh.......but I have $23.74 in this (wood and one hydraulic fitting). It'll look better with some paint (gotta get rid of that ugly green and yeller..), and I have since made a battery box and got it wired up.

 

[Runner]

I can't remember where I saw them, maybe on another forum, but a couple of people built some really neat ones:

 

[oneparsec]

Thanks for the photos and ideas, give me something to work with

 

[Workstead]

How would this work using a lawn mower as the base machine?

What is it that makes a garden tractor preferable?

Clem

 

[Workstead]

Don't laugh.......but I have $23.74 in this (wood and one hydraulic fitting). It'll look better with some paint (gotta get rid of that ugly green and yeller..), and I have since made a battery box and got it wired up.

Bobodu,

Does your masterpiece have an hydraulic dump? Tell us more about it. Any more pictures? My wife needs one of these.

Thanks,

Clem

 

[blackjack74]

That will work. I like the hood design pretty good. I'm building a dump box on a bolens hydro eliminator. I extened it 36'' and the box is 48x48. The tractor had hyd lift for the deck, so it had a valve that I'm using and I just need to add a longer cylinder positioned in the back to lift the box. I'll do my best to get pics on here when I get a camera. I'm alot better with a welder than a computer. I really enjoy the projects u guys have on here. way to go Jack

 

[smiley]

I don't remember where, but one of the sites had a walk behind one made from a snowblower with a wheelbarrow tub mounted up front. I started building one from a rear engine rider, with a wheelbarow tub in front, but traded it for a laptop computer before it was finished.

 

[dcyrilc]

Don't laugh.......but I have $23.74 in this (wood and one hydraulic fitting). It'll look better with some paint (gotta get rid of that ugly green and yeller..), and I have since made a battery box and got it wired up.

Does that come with pedals?

 

[bobodu]

I looked around and I don't seem to have any pictures of the pump before I covered it up with the wood. But the pump is mounted about halfway down the main frame with a belt going up to the engine. Another belt runs from that back to the tranny and this one has a movable idler pulley to engage the gears. I linked the pulley up to it only tightens the belt when the peddle is pushed. Anyone who has real meat eatin' God fearin" gears knows what a pain it is to put the tractor in neutral every time you move to a new pile. The pump is a 1.7 gpm with a built in valve and this powers a single action ram. Still have to get a big spring to pull it back down because I didn't have enough room to mount the hinge far enough back to let gravity do the job and I had this cylinder on the shelf.