12/18/2023 0 Comments Forklift mast in garage![]() Both of them have very limited lift capacities compared to a forklift. Neither a tractor with loader (or backhoe) or a skid steer is as good at putting a pallet or a machine exactly where you want it. They're useful machines, but for most of what we do, they're an annoyance. The skid steer is going down the road soon, and I probably will never own a skid steer again. We also have a skid-steer, and I have a set of forks for that. I have a backhoe with a set of forks, which I use for moving a great deal of stuff around. If you're on gravel, uneven or muddy ground, a regular forklift, even with pneumatic tires, is worse than useless. and the tires up against the mast are about like backhoe tires. My second vote would be for spending some money to make a big concrete pad and then buying the cheapest worn-out but still functional indoor forklift you can find. ![]() It's hard to imagine how you lived without one once you have one. It's hard to take a tractor seriously whose wheels don't even come up to my hips. I initially looked seriously at buying a brand new Kubota. But any forklift is going to be in the same weight class. I wouldn't consider it huge, but my JD is multi-ton. And have build two homes, a garage, turned a farm field into a yard, built a driveway, unloaded hundreds of tons of building materials, machines, gravel, etc. Put a couple hundred hours on it in the last 3 years and have spent just a couple hundred dollars in maintenance. But really, grabbing or putting a skid in a semi trailer isn't high precision work.ģ9HP, <$20k out the door with 2000 hours, loader, bucket, forks, backhoe, and brand new tires. The forklift wins, hands down, in terms of visibility and turn radius. I think a compact (but not too compact) utility tractor would be the ticket for the OP. ![]() Difference is that the tractor is fine to use in snow or mud and the forklift can get stuck on a coffee spill. I've unloaded all manners of fragile and heavy things with it and find it only slightly more difficult to use outdoors than my electric forklift. And with forks on you are still around 2k pounds at 24" out. ![]() Front end loader is good for about 3k pounds at the quick attach plate. Been doing it for probably fifteen years now, just dont get off the driveway.Ī few grand in decent gravel, put down by somebody who knows what they are doing, will allow you to unload 4000lbs, not 400. After the first season, this has been just fine for driving my regular warehouse forklift on. I live in the PNW as well, and I did the driveway in front of the shop with road cloth, then 1 1/4" minus gravel, and then had it compacted. I would spend your money instead on enlarging the area of driveway that is usable, and buy a cheap ($5000) forklift. In other words, a little tractor wont do what you want, and will cost a lot to not do it.Ī huge, multi ton 50hp tractor might- but it would be a pretty lousy compromise. I dunno if you have ever been on a little tractor like that when the bucket is overloaded, and the rear wheels get a little light in the loafers, but it aint a fun feeling. And thats bucket capacity- if you add forks to a bucket, you are already past 20", and you are really looking at more like 400lbs. ![]() A 30hp Kubota is probably $18k, new, and has a lifting capacity of 800lbs, at 20" out. ![]()
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