Still not dead, so made a boom pole

[cmyoung2]

We use a similar 3pt hitch to move stuff, primarily 20' trailers full of Christmas trees out of the field during harvest. Main design difference is ours are heavier and have a ball on top to move gooseneck trainers, usually just around the loading yard. They don't behave very well in the field(causing loss of bladder control ). Like the boom pole idea.

 

[HenryIV]

Good idea Bruce. :thumbsup:

If you use a receiver tube, here are a couple of ideas:

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You may have seen this from the Omni Mfg. Website:

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I had not seen it, but that's where I'm going. I like the way they used tube that could take an insert. That's what I like about your receiver tube suggestion, it can be offset, so it still allows another smaller tube to go inside that could be used to lift something light like a small truss. Those insert examples are great.

 

[Xfaxman]

I had not seen it, but that's where I'm going. I like the way they used tube that could take an insert. That's what I like about your receiver tube suggestion, it can be offset, so it still allows another smaller tube to go inside that could be used to lift something light like a small truss. Those insert examples are great.

The inserts are used with the Omni Transformer 3 point hitch:

You could make your inserts like the extra one I made for my shop crane:

 

[dickfoster]

Great post!

BTW here's a bumper sticker for your car. I suppose you could find a place on your tractor for it too, maybe your hitch of death.

 

[HenryIV]

Oh boy. Watching chuck2009. Addicted to his videos here. Best post in a while. Honestly I thought you would get a bunch of hate for the humour

I love hate. At least hate has some passion. I could certainly pixelate the anuses from my welds by then I wouldn稚 get any abuse from thousands of "when I wuz a nuclear pipeline welder" posters.

 

[HenryIV]

We need an update, did you complete the BOOM OF UNLIMITED LIABILITY?

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Slave driver!! Did my wife call you?

Yes, so that you would have something to look at in the comfort of your favourite chair, I ignored the hangover I had, and finished this. I also let it cool for paint and kept on working by feeding some honey bees who thanked me by stinging me through a welding glove, and cut 6/10ths of an inch of ****** stabilizer bar sold to me by A & I Products under the guise that it would fit a Ford 3600. It did not, and after speaking with the only Amber I've ever known who didn't get money stuffed into her knickers as a profession and never heard back from her, same as the other Ambers, I used a Chinese angle grinder and a Chinese cut off wheel to cut and weld the Indian (dot not woo woo) to cut and re-weld the bar. The other bar confirmed the correct length and I noticed the FoMoCo logo on it and I was sad how far we've fallen in manufacturing.

Speaking of shoddy workmanship, check out them welds!! 7024 at 120 AMPS baby!! Melts like butta. They had to pull the reactor rods out of the heavy water another inch when I struck that arc. 'Murica!

The little welds on the receiver tube were made by the underfed Chinese peasant children who supply Harbor Freight. That big honking metal loop came off a ship that moves asphalt from Venezuela. I was told they cannot use that kind anymore.


I wasn't able to bend it and I weigh an 8th of a ton.

 

[Xfaxman]

Thanks muchly, looks gooder-un :thumbsup:.

And you still can use a sliding insert for high lifts of lighter objects.

 

[kebo]

HenryIV, you have an odd sense of humor lol, I bet it would it be interesting to hang around for you for a while! But, your dog is obviously smarter than you, and better looking I'm sure!!!!

Seriously, that's a great job on the boom pole and I'm sure it will serve you well. Just don't let the safety police catch you toting big logs down the hill with it lol.

 

[stuckmotor]

That is one fine looking boom pole. I'd expect no less from a Georgia boy.

 

[dieselcrawler]

This has got me thinking... might have to make something of the sort for myself.

I have been using my box blade to skid logs, and shove brush back to make paths to the trees/logs. So keeping the box blade in place is mandatory. But using your boom pole idea, and making its mounting holes spacing to match my top link should be easy. I never adjust the top link, one it's set at dead level, as I don't need to cut, just scrape, both directions.

 

[dickfoster]

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If you keep this kinda stuff up, they'll kick your butt outta the shade tree union.

 

[HenryIV]

Put a hitch receiver tube on the end and make many different interchangeable fittings.

Bruce

I did that sir. Thank you for this idea. I use an insert with a clevis to lower items out of my truck.

 

[HenryIV]

Did not happen yet.

Dog said: "That woman you conned into matrimony, she's still hopeful about your demise by accident. Quick payout of claims. It's the only thing keeping her alive."

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Good idea Bruce.

If you use a receiver tube, here are a couple of ideas:

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You may have seen this from the Omni Mfg. Website:

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OH I LIKE THIS! SAVING FOR A LATER DATE!

 

[Fuseblower2]

Love the Description.

 

[Smokeydog]

Nice work on the pole. World needs more storytelling. Keep the dog. The dog ate the girl at the end because of her “good taste”Classic sci-fi.
Enjoy my conversations with the dog. Smarter than most folks.

 

[jyoutz]

PROLOGUE
The winter came and went. Anticipating the procurement and installation of a wood burning fireplace in the fall, I decided to harvest a fallen oak blown down in a storm a few years ago. Of course I used my 3 PT TRAILER HITCH OF DEATH (previously posted) to pull a military trailer UP STEEP INCLINES with some tools and returned with same tools and A FULL LOAD OF SPLIT FIREWOOD DOWN A STEEP grade and up the other side with a 2x4 FORD 3600 sans ROPS and *gasp* total disregard of warnings that would have been carefully worded by a committee of product liability defence attorneys in worsted wool suits having secured a hefty retainer to brainstorm a synonym for the word 'UP'.

Picture of said fabrication on this site, after which many chimed in with predictions of impending tractor looping, and being crushed, and being pulverised into tree food, entrails scatted by wild critters, and loss of erectile function, then possible arrest and incarceration in a secret CIA prison to spend the next eight years with a cellie who had removed the tag from his mattress.

A few weeks later, sitting In the warmth of oak fueled fire costing only some sweat and gas for the chainsaw, I reflected upon tree trunk sections, and other lifting chores that 3 PT TRAILER HITCH OF DEATH did with cumbersome chain positioning. Far too much effort for a man of my advanced age. The dog (who talks telepathically to me like the 1975 movie "A boy and his dog" with Don Johnson) said "Fat bearded one, you need a boom pole. You should get off your duff and make one". So to the University of YouTube I went to study the various welding offerings of a ChuckE2009 and considered my strategery to perhaps integrate THE 3 PT TRAILER HITCH OF DEATH.

CHAPTER ONE
Then....I...had......

a plan!!

I would use the 3 PT TRAILER HITCH OF DEATH and substitute the toplink with the boom. So one end of the boom connects directly to the tractor, the other connection point is the 3 PT TRAILER HITCH OF DEATH. I had some metal and a bought some more rectangular tubing. Made some measurements, tacked some welds. Dog looked at it and said "cheat a little and move the lift point back an inch or two till you max out your lift height" then the dog yawned, snapped at a buzzy insect, then proclaimed "Set the pivots deep into the supports to increase the weld length." So with those insights, I welded using some Lincoln 7018AC on DCEN. Not pretty welding but a hot root pass and good enough for an office puke.

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Above: 3 PT TRAILER HITCH OF DEATH

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Above: 90% completed BOOM OF UNLIMITED LIABILITY

Behold this extra fitment to certainly result in a meager company provided life insurance payout to my better half. Note the lack of SAFETY DECALS with stick figures getting their skulls dented by falling objects. This should guarantee the TOTAL LOSS OF TRACTOR AND BLADDER CONTROL that the 3 PT TRAILER HITCH OF DEATH has yet to achieve sua sponte.

Those round thingys will have bushings inserted to bring the ID's down to clevis pin OD. Yes, I know the left stabilizer bar is missing because the A-C5NNN455-C sold to me by A & I Products isn't really sized for the 3600, despite being advertised as such.

I wa wa wa wonder what to put on the business end of this. I thinking a 3/8" chain hook and some kind of big hook for a sling ring my neighbour gave me. Suggestions welcome, photos better still.

So there it is and now I yield the floor to include the cacophony of nattering nabobs of negativism who've not endeavoured anything enterprising since Agnew.

I greatly enjoyed your enthralling narrative and sense of humor. Carry on and don’t kill yourself with your inventions.