How do you move your generator(s)?

[msgjd]

I can't help you with ideas as my main mep003 is on its original trailer and the other pair of 003's are stationary in the genshed .. Those were moved into place using a bucketloader that set them upon several 2" pipes laid at the doorway , which then were used Roman-style to roll and steer the gennies to their perspective corners at the back of the building .. If I were in your shoes with nothing big available, I would do what you have done, except I would center the axle and set genny so that there's not a horrible amount of tongue weight on the lawn tractor or atv or what have you .. But then again, you might need a lot of weight on that hitch to keep traction with a lawn tractor

 

[Ray70]

I would like to see that 425 in action. I built forks for my 318's 3pt, but lift capacity is only 640 lbs.

I'll have to get you some pictures. He was I think 11 when my older brother gave him a broken down 425 for parts. He rebuilt it, threw in one of my LPW2 engines and fabricated the entire front fork mount / hydraulic piston assembly as well as the rear 3 pt. fork setup.
Also a 4 way custom built snow plow for the front.
He made a 350 lb. concrete counterweight for the 3 pt. for use with the plow and the front forks.
I keep telling him he's overloading the machines frame / tires / axle etc. but he's having fun, learning to fabricate things and learning to fix things when he breaks them!

 

[Digger556]

I'll have to get you some pictures. He was I think 11 when my older brother gave him a broken down 425 for parts. He rebuilt it, threw in one of my LPW2 engines and fabricated the entire front fork mount / hydraulic piston assembly as well as the rear 3 pt. fork setup.
Also a 4 way custom built snow plow for the front.
He made a 350 lb. concrete counterweight for the 3 pt. for use with the plow and the front forks.
I keep telling him he's overloading the machines frame / tires / axle etc. but he's having fun, learning to fabricate things and learning to fix things when he breaks them!

I was curious how he set it up. The 425 only has 10 more lbs of stated 3pt capacity, but I know people push the 318s much harder than the official numbers. Deere states max real axle load on mine is 1200 lbs, but the Peerless axles itself os rated for 1800 lbs.

 

[smokem joe]

Kubota with forks works well up to 803A. Any more weight than that and my hydraulics stall out

 

[Sazabizc]

To move my Mep-003a I use my John Deere 5075e with pallet fork attachment. Been one of the best 578$ spent ! I use that thing for everything, picking up brush and trees , cutting trees into 5 or 6 foot pieces and piles them on the forks . It even has a 2 inch receiver hitch makes moving a trailer a breeze. Also can move my gooseneck trailer around with it . And it also has a spot to install a bail spear.

I use that thing all the time . Before I got the pallet fork attachment I used the bucket and would wrap a chain around it and use the lifting hook on the generator. It worked but it wasn’t ideal . I’d like to get a military trailer for the 003a and leave it on that and move it around with it . Instead of lifting it up and moving it around .


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[Rosemary Ranch]

I don't own much in the way of material handling equipment and have typically relied on my tilt-deck trailer and a small dolly with floor jacks to move stuff around. Recently I built a pair of towable dollys to improve my ability to shuffle generators.
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It got me curious how all of you move a half ton or more of surplus around.

Someone is doing some sketchy stuff, sketchy stuff, sketchy stuff… Shhhh, I wonder if anybody saw that. Whew!

 

[kendelrio]

I usually give them some wine, play some sad music and tell them about my childhood... they're moved to tears in minutes!

 

[G744]

I'd pay to have seen you as a child...

 

[Rosemary Ranch]

I'd pay to have seen you as a child...

That’s nothing compared to my junior enlisted Sailor years. Just saying..