Transporting Mini

[bsekf]

The mini's are so slow to move 1/4-1/2 mile. What have you fabricated to facilitate moving them? I was thinking a stone boat (sled) or maybe the FEL on my 70 hp tractor. Or maybe a simple trailer. What are the fertile minds using?

 

[ptsg]

Back when I had my two Toselli crawler tractors, I built a "low bed" trailer to pull with the tractor. It wasn't really about moving long distances but I have a asphalt paved area that I often had to cross with the crawlers with steel tracks between two orchards, so I didn't really wanted to damaged that asphalt.

I used some solid rubber tires with homemade rims and a lot of 90 mm pipe I had. I do regret getting rid of that trailer though. It was really nicely built.

I pulled it with the little Kubota B7000 I had.

 

[mrmikey]

I had seen on Gold Rush where Tony had put just an axle with a couple of duallies on each side on one end of the excavator . The bucket was put into the back of a haul truck and lifted the other end off the ground and was then pulled along to wherever he wanted to go. In his case it was a huge machine and it was a set of dualies on each side, you could probably do the same with a single on each side especially if you're off road.

 

[airbiscuit]

Put it on a pallet?

 

[Sonny580]

small axle with a frame and hitch works. Dont take much to hold them up since the are so light.
I haul mine in the dump trailer to where I need to dig at the farm. Here at home I just drive it! Way faster than loading/unloading it.

 

[dfkrug]

I was thinking a stone boat (sled) or maybe the FEL on my 70 hp tractor. Or maybe a simple trailer.

One of the accessories you can buy with the 1-ton-ish mini from China is a very simple 1-axle trailer. Only a few hundred dollars and no suspension.

But any decent CUT or utility tractor should have forks. Even my Kioti can just
barely lift it. A bigger tractor, no problem.