Grasshopper implement carrier

This was used on our farm to carry implements from field to field. Especially when they had no wheels, or those pesky wobblers.
We backed at an angle over the implement and kinda jacknifed to get centered. My sketches are from 55 years ago, so that is all there is.
The gearing was about 50 to 1. The cable was aircraft stainless 1/4" (not shown) Jim

In the 50s and 60s Blattner Welding, Rozel, KS made bajillion of those, except the wheels were nearly centered on the sides so that the whole thing remained more or less balanced. Dad owner a couple and they were seen all over the area. They worked pretty darned slick and kept the implements from digging up the road.

Wish I could just edit to add... The "spools" were old car or pickup wheels and there were chains instead of cables.

That's pretty interesting Jim. I don't remember ever seeing one around Cass Co. MO. gm

A guy in our club uses a carrier just about like this to transport his 3-section spike tooth harrow back and forth from our show grounds. There are multiple chains coming down from the winch shaft so all the sections can be lifted together. Works pretty well.

Always wanted to find one of these I?ve seen them carrying 4 sections of 14 foot wide ihc press wheel drills that?s what I would use it for and carrying the harrow

That's a really nice sketch, someone could build one from your drawing. Thanks for illustrating the grasshopper.

There were hundreds of those here in Florida up until the late 80's As late as the 70's a lot of the citrus growers here were still using orchard tractors that did not have three points. Mostly JD and Case. All of them would use a device like that to carry either an offset disc or a chopper. We called them Carryalls and quite a few were made by small local fab shops although I have seen a few that you could tell were homemade. I still see one rusting in a field or pasture from time to time but not near as often as I did 10 years ago.


One local family had a grove close by but also one one a lake some 40 or more miles away. Mr Prevatte would put the carryall behind his DO Case and then his old pickup behind the carryall and make the trip to the lake grove at least once a month. It would take him most of the day to get and most of a day to get back. The use of herbicide under the trees and microjet irrigation did away with chopping or disking in the groves in the 80's


There is no way I would make a 40 mile trip on a DO Case today in this part of Florida with today's traffic . You would be run over before you got no more than a couple of miles from the house!

Thanks for posting the drawing. Never seen one in my area (West Central WI) Would make an interesting project for moving old drag disks and spring tooth drags.

Think Deere at one time made something simular but for theirs you backed the trailer over the implement then raised it up. Did not have to wiggle to get it over the implement.