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.

 

[bobodu]

Here's another way to run a small pump. This is actually a P/S pump from a Sonoma that I won on ebay for 99 cents plus 3 dollars shipping!! There is a tank under the seat that I made from a short chuck of 5 inch pipe.

 

[dcyrilc]

Does that come with pedals?

bobodu,
Sorry for the joke. I couldn't help it.
The wooden hood is very creative! Had it been mine, since I don't weld, it would have still been uncovered with the engine exposed. Nice miters too.

 

[bobodu]

Didn't bother me a bit because I actually gave thought to adding some...

 

[David Devuono]

There are a couple of examples of zero turn type tractors hooked to a integrated dump trailer. I have been on the lookout for a second lawn tractor rear end to make a 4x6 dump tractor, among many plans to move dirt. If your land is flat one of those zero turn units would work. For me, using a 1,200lb 4x4 Kubota to pull up to 1500 lbs of dirt (maybe more) and I often get stuck even with tire chains on all four wheels. I almost always need the bucket full of dirt to pull the trailer up hills. If you plan to use a garden tractor, do something like bobodu, push the driving wheels back so the weight is over them.