I need a simple idea to get my planter in the shed

tomNE · Jan 13, 2011

It's a pull type planter but too wide for my door. I wish i coulda found one with end transport but didn't. IH 800 8x30. the tongue does fold. I keep thinking of running the tires up on somekind of skid. I know somebody has one of the KISS ideas!
thanks in advance

Moline_guy · Jan 13, 2011

If you have access to one of those old type Donahu flatbed trailers that lay flat and then run your planter on, and then push the wheels under it, would be one way to go. Might end up with a clearance issue with the markers though.

cuttman · Jan 13, 2011

If it is a concrete floor you might look at wheel dollies that they use for cars. Northern Tool has pics to look at. If you have dirt floors you could lay plywood down and use them also. Just a suggestion???

VicS · Jan 13, 2011

Drive in or back in at a big angle, get one end in that way, if you have a loader the rest is easy, don't have to lift it completely up, just scoot it sideways, while you back up or pull ahead, I have put things in a shed if the door is as big as from the tongue to one end. well almost. If your door is just a little bit smaller you can do it by yourself with a loader on the tongue, by backing it in same way and walking it in. At the MM Dealership I worked at in the 60's we just had a 14ft door and put together 15 and even 16 ft tools and always got them out, if they are mounted it's a snap.

John A. · Jan 13, 2011

Tom, 1 old tandem axle Donahue implement trailer or build something similar to put it in the barn.
Hope this helps.
Later,
John A.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 13, 2011

Second the Donahue planter trailer solution. I use mine for a cheap grain or corn head trailer depending on which one isn't on the combine. Same situation in that the only available space was less than 20 ft wide which wasn't going to work with a 12 row machine, so an end transport was a required accessory. Occasionally an equipment jockey and definitely salvage yards will sell an end transport arrangement

JDseller · Jan 13, 2011

I had a planter that we moved on an sliding implement trailer. I also used the same trailer for my grain platform. I did not want the planter to set out side in the fall when I needed the trailer to cut soybenas. I took two 6x6 treated posts. I then cut a taper on each end. I spaced them about four foot apart. I then nailed 2x8 across them to make places for the planter wheels to set. I would back the planter up on the skid and then let it down. The units would rest on the back 6x6. The tongue support would set on the front 6x6. I then would chain the planter down on the skid. I would back up to one end of the 6x6s with a tractor with the three point arms down . I would then chain each three point arm to one 6x6. If you lifted the 6x6 just a little you could pull or push it as needed to get into the machinery shed. You do need to be fairly straight with where you want the planter to go when you set it on the skids. I would also set the 6x6s down on a small 2x4 block so I could get the chains in and out.

IOWA NORTHEAST · Jan 13, 2011

If you have time for nonsence try there two web sites, perhaps it will give you some ideas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cee1UZN0p98&feature=more_related

http://www.flixxy.com/hyundai-driving-skills.htm

Knoxcityfarmboy · Jan 13, 2011

When I was growing up we had the same problem. When it was time to get the planter in or out the whole family helped by going in the door at an angle and then turning it.

tomNE · Jan 13, 2011

23ft planter with a 17ft door. dirt floor. keep the ideas coming. nothing has tickled my fancy yet.

camju · Jan 13, 2011

I woud back it in the door way with as mch inside as possible.Unhook the tractor and pull it in with chain and pick up by the draw bar.You would have to have room in the shed to turn it around or this wouldn't work.
Only other idea would to set the tires on a sheet of steel(each tire only) hook sheets together with chain, and just drag the whole thing in.

PreciseFarms · Jan 13, 2011

Maybe buy four caster wheels. Bolt one to the frame at each corner and push/pull in sideways. Or make a frame out of wood or steel and use the casters. Junkyard should have some off old planter lift assists. Northern would have some smaller ones.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 13, 2011

The custom car guys have dollies that they can put under all 4 tires of a car and roll it anywhere on a "concrete floor they want. Go to your local auto supply store and see what they offer in this catagory of shop equipment.

RODGEinIL · Jan 13, 2011

The skid idea works, we used to have an old eight section JD rotary hoe that we would pull up on old oak skids for hog waterers and pull it staight into the shed.

Duner Wi · Jan 13, 2011

This might work . Back up to door as if door was big enough . Now you rotate the planter around door post with Smallest tractor you have. Better be row crop. You should be able to pull straight into shed. This assumes you can back your planter up. No guarantees it will work.

Eldon (WA) · Jan 13, 2011

I would find a set of old wheels and hubs and fabricate a frame to slip under the toolbar on one end, then either jack it up or design a hydraulic cylinder to lift it when in place. Then just use a loader tractor or skidloader to lift the other end and back it in lengthwise...basically a makeshift end transport.

PJH · Jan 13, 2011

If you can't widen the door, can you hook a snatch block on something on the inside and pull it in sideways with a cable? Couple car hoods for the wheels to ride in?? Plywood sled?

I've used car hoods to slide some pretty heavy stuff. . .

Paul

Anonymous-0 · Jan 14, 2011

Dolly wheels used on trailers, two swivel 2 rigid. can get the same thing in castors but will have to jack up/fabricate..fwiw

Anonymous-0 · Jan 14, 2011

(quoted from post at 17:13:07 01/13/11) It's a pull type planter but too wide for my door. I wish i coulda found one with end transport but didn't. IH 800 8x30. the tongue does fold. I keep thinking of running the tires up on somekind of skid. I know somebody has one of the KISS ideas!
thanks in advance

Use your planks. If you can strap them fast even better. Then get a couple pieces of pipe (or round posts of some kind) put them under the end of the planks, another a few feet ahead and just push it in putting the pipe in place as needed. Moved several big safes one day by myself with a couple of pieces of broom handle.

Dave

John M · Jan 14, 2011

GET A BIGGER SHED!!!

4 bottem · Jan 14, 2011

Back up real fast and don't stop. But be careful this type of machinery storage is a art.

dixon boy · Jan 14, 2011

old donahue machinery trailer thats what they came out for back in the 70's. can be had for 500.00 and up range

Warren Bult · Jan 14, 2011

Where you located? I have the pieces of an end transport off an old white planter laying around. Should be able to modify easily enought to work. I am located in central South Dakota.

GordoSD · Jan 14, 2011

Back into the door space at a 45 degree angle, about 15 feet of planter going into shed and 8 ft outside. Back up CLOSE to door. Then unhook and with little tractor or atv, whatever inside the shed, pull the tongue in and wrap the planter around the corner.Some king of plank for the jcak to slide on.

Gordo

tomNE · Jan 14, 2011

found both an old donahue trailer and some old end transport parts. the trailer has the boards missing, so it should be cheap. thanks for all the ideas

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jan 14, 2011

can be had for 500.00 and up range

ONLY if you can find them for sale at all. Many farmers find them so useful that only upon death do they depart from each other.

Great trailers.

A link for those that have never seen one.
Donahue trailers.

toadady · Jan 14, 2011

(quoted from post at 11:30:41 01/14/11) Back up real fast and don't stop. But be careful this type of machinery storage is a art.

cheater!! that was gona be MY idea

just another old geezer · Jan 14, 2011

simple outfit used by imp dealer. A small skid just large enough to have a tire fit in it, but lift the tire off of the groung, chained to another one, for the other tire, then pull from the end with a chain, maybe another skid for the jack

wolfman · Jan 14, 2011

Back it around perpendicular to door opening. Put your pigpole on your 3-pt, three or four light chains or rachet straps, lift a little til the planter is light on it's feet and back your tractor -might want a cribbin block or post between drawbar and bottom of closest wheel to slide the planter. Slides easier if "light on it's feet". Next spring a chain instead of the cribbin block.

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