Thread: Al's tooling up!!

Nice one Al. That should shift some wood.
Gee Carl has changed a bit since I last saw him.

cheers
Steve

Well done !! That'll take some of the hard work out of the job.

Now you can think about all the attachments you could get for it

Forks, log grab, bale handler, posthole digger, backhoe, chainsaw, drill, sweeper, mulcher, mower and that's just the common ones

Is that trailer ok to carry 2400kg? Although I guess the picture proves it

Originally Posted by Dan

Is that trailer ok to carry 2400kg? Although I guess the picture proves it

Assuming the tyres are at least 8ply, the trailer would be capable of around 3tonnes to 3.5tonnes. 2400kg for the bobcat and 500 to 600kg for the trailer. Yep all ok. Can't see the towbar, but you do need electric brakes for over two tonnes.

I think you would know you were towing it.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Dan

Is that trailer ok to carry 2400kg? Although I guess the picture proves it

This thought also crossed my mind. I seriously doubt it but the new custom made one will be? Then there's the rated capacity of the coupling and the towing capacity of the ute. But it's still a great toy (tool).

cheers
steve

Nice one Alan. I used to have a old Yanmar bocat, bit smaller I recon but it was useful, ole mate I bought it off had made up a quick release and a set of forks for it. Very handy, I was able to release the jigger without getting off the machine.
As for lifting logs, when they were too heavy to lift, I could use the forks to roll the log.
Best of luck with it

way to go almake sure you get a set of forks for it though.it makes life a whole lot easier

and a grapple

I want one.

beautiful! That will make such a difference.
Now you wish you would have had it when you were building your house...

So my trailer (STILL BEING BUILT) will be rated for 3,400kg, ute will pull 3,000kg if it's electric braked. The drive back to Bris-Vegas wasn't slow, but did suck down the juice, but I expected that.

I'm looking at a set of forks for it asap and have been doing a little work on it. Had a weeping ram on the bucket - had Carl over for a bbq, and we took the ram out, separated it and ended up dropping down the hydraulic guy to fit a new set of seals. Went over the locking pins on the bucket to make it easy to get the bucket on and off, greased it up and gave the bucket a bit of attention...



Carl and I reckoned the bucket needed some teeth to help hang onto logs, so this is what I ended up doing. I wanted to practice welding as well so it killed 2 birds with one stone





It looks a bit rustic, kinda industrial, but I reckon it'll do just nicely.

Another issue we sorted was - this...



Notice anything a bit funky? Carl and I where positive when I went to look at it initially there wasn't much other than normal wear and tear kind of things wrong with it, but when it came time to pick it up, it had one over sized tyre (check out the left hand tyre) Not sure exactly how it happened, but anyway Carl went to town on it and swapped it over - now the bobcat has 4 tryes all the same size

Allan

Looks good. I'm sure you will wonder how you managed without it.

The forks will be good because they will weigh less than half the weight of your 4-in-1 bucket. More lifting capacity.

But I do like your solution to grabbing the logs. Neat. Just remember the bucket will be high carbon steel so anything done to will require low hydrogen rods or equivalent. Sorry, probably telling you how to suck eggs.

Regarding sucking the juice when towing you don't get anything for free and you are towing more than the weight of your ute. In fact getting of for twice the weight.

Regards
Paul

Paul you're right on the lifting capacity, found with Carl's you can get more stuff picked up with the forks. Also much more friendly for stacks of timber. On the forks, whats the consensus - should I have forks that are 'free' that is only secured at the top so they can swing, or fixed forks so secured at top and bottom? What's the consensus? Carl likes having his forks free, another forum member I've worked for recently Rude, has his fixed.

Welding the bucket - not telling me how to suck eggs mate, I had no idea. I figured it was metal and I'd hit it up with my welder So I guess they won't hold on long - I'm not 100% happy with them, they look a bit rough, but will see how they go.I just used my little gas less mig...

Fuel - yeah ya right, if I still got 700k per tank, I suppose everybody would be hauling a bobcat around It certainly will make things a bit easy at times on jobs, that's for sure

That oversized tyre on one side is for hill work.... you can only work one direction across the hill.