Moveable Tractor Shelter

Moveable Tractor Shelter BUILDINGS Miscellaneous “I wanted to keep my tractor out of the weather and this was the cheapest way I could think of to do it ” says Gary Pierman Perth Ontario who used 3-in dia steel pipe to build a portable storage shed that he can pick up and move with his Case IH 1285 4-WD loader tractor and 3-pt mounted snowblower The 11 by 24-ft shed has an 18-ga corrugated steel roof screwed onto 1 by 4 roof boards Pierman uses a chain on his loader bucket to lift the front end of the shed and two 16-in long chains welded to both ends of an 11-ft long 3-pt mounted crossbar to lift the back end “I just lift it straight up about 12 in off the ground and drive forward ” says Pierman “I park the shed and tractor in front of our garage during winter so I can quickly back the tractor and out and use the snowblower Whenever I’m not using the snowblower I enclose all 4 sides with woven poly fabric to keep snow out During the summer I park the shed out of the way in back of the garage ” To raise the front end of the shed he tilts the loader bucket down and attaches a chain to the top of it and also to a pair of hooks welded onto a length of 2 by 6 tubing which is slid in across the front of the shed To raise the back end of the shed he pins the cross pipe with chains onto the tractor’s 3-pt lower lift arms “I put a lot of thought into it before I built it ” says Pierman “As I lift the shed it goes straight up I didn’t want to lift the shed at an angle because that would risk pulling the sides in ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Gary Pierman 1032 Powers Road Perth Ontario Canada K7H 3C5 ph 613 267-5846; gary pierman@opp ca

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