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- Kubota B2150, Cub Cadet GT3100
I’m very proud of this. The forks and the pan. I think they’ve probably been the most useful thing I ever made myself.
I made the forks years ago. Somehow it popped into my head to try to use half a 275 gallon oil tank as a pan to haul all sorts of stuff (dirt, firewood, gravel) When I’m doing firewood, I can’t get the rear forks up high enough to get the firewood on top of the pile. I have to drop it and push the logs up the side of the pile and I don’t want to destroy the pallets. Just the other day I came up with this modification. I was standing there looking at it for 15 minutes. How am I gonna do this without a lot of fabrication and welding?! Just luck and blessing that I figured I could put six short pieces of half inch square steel bar in into two of those one by two rectangular steel tubes I welded to the bottom of the tank so I can get the forks under it. On the side, facing the edge of the loader bucket, I put two pieces of steel so that it would be like a fork on the edge of the loader bucket. On the other side i inserted half inch square-steel bars and use that to wrap a chain around it and then onto the bucket so I could lift it and dump it. It worked surprisingly well, I was very pleased. I was able to dump loads of firewood on the TOP of the pile. Made everything so much easier.
Oh yeah, I just remembered. I also use that pan for ballast. I dump a scoop of dirt in the pan and then pick it up and then put a scoop of dirt in the bucket, and I am heavily laden.
By some strange chain of events I can drop the bucket turn around and get a load of dirt fill the bucket, pick it up bring it to where I need to go and dropit then I put the tips of the forks under the front of the pan and I can lift it up so that it flops over to dump the dirt out and then I can go forward back a little bit and pick up the pan off the top of the dirt pile with the forksand then go forward again and drop the pan then with the tips of the forks gently flip it back over right side up and pick up the pan with the forks,and go back for another load. I never have to get off the tractor when I’m using this pan. This way I can carry two scoops on every trip. It really saves a lot of time. I dagged the 275 gallon tank out of the woods with a dirtbike, got it home, then cut it up, I got one and a half pans from it. Cutting it was very scary. I definitely didn’t want to get blown up doing it, but there wasn’t even a trace of oil fumes in there. Just a lot of leaves that I accidentally got smoldering even that was scary! I’m a little embarrassed that the big pan is so badly bent, but I haven’t really needed to put any effort into straightening it out. It still works fine. It’s ugly but it works.
I tried to sell this idea to a company that makes 275 gallon oil tanks, but they never replied.
Thank you for letting me post this!
I made the forks years ago. Somehow it popped into my head to try to use half a 275 gallon oil tank as a pan to haul all sorts of stuff (dirt, firewood, gravel) When I’m doing firewood, I can’t get the rear forks up high enough to get the firewood on top of the pile. I have to drop it and push the logs up the side of the pile and I don’t want to destroy the pallets. Just the other day I came up with this modification. I was standing there looking at it for 15 minutes. How am I gonna do this without a lot of fabrication and welding?! Just luck and blessing that I figured I could put six short pieces of half inch square steel bar in into two of those one by two rectangular steel tubes I welded to the bottom of the tank so I can get the forks under it. On the side, facing the edge of the loader bucket, I put two pieces of steel so that it would be like a fork on the edge of the loader bucket. On the other side i inserted half inch square-steel bars and use that to wrap a chain around it and then onto the bucket so I could lift it and dump it. It worked surprisingly well, I was very pleased. I was able to dump loads of firewood on the TOP of the pile. Made everything so much easier.
Oh yeah, I just remembered. I also use that pan for ballast. I dump a scoop of dirt in the pan and then pick it up and then put a scoop of dirt in the bucket, and I am heavily laden.
By some strange chain of events I can drop the bucket turn around and get a load of dirt fill the bucket, pick it up bring it to where I need to go and dropit then I put the tips of the forks under the front of the pan and I can lift it up so that it flops over to dump the dirt out and then I can go forward back a little bit and pick up the pan off the top of the dirt pile with the forksand then go forward again and drop the pan then with the tips of the forks gently flip it back over right side up and pick up the pan with the forks,and go back for another load. I never have to get off the tractor when I’m using this pan. This way I can carry two scoops on every trip. It really saves a lot of time. I dagged the 275 gallon tank out of the woods with a dirtbike, got it home, then cut it up, I got one and a half pans from it. Cutting it was very scary. I definitely didn’t want to get blown up doing it, but there wasn’t even a trace of oil fumes in there. Just a lot of leaves that I accidentally got smoldering even that was scary! I’m a little embarrassed that the big pan is so badly bent, but I haven’t really needed to put any effort into straightening it out. It still works fine. It’s ugly but it works.
I tried to sell this idea to a company that makes 275 gallon oil tanks, but they never replied.
Thank you for letting me post this!
