“Garden Basket” Added To Zero-Turn Mower

“Garden Basket” Added To Zero-Turn Mower MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous Max Welch of Austin Ark has a large greenhouse and garden on his property “My wife and I needed a better way to carry garden and greenhouse produce ” Welch says “She needed something on wheels to make it easier ” So he put together a fold-up basket that would attach to the back of his zero-turn riding lawn mower “We didn’t have a golf cart or anything like that ” he says “The only thing we had available to move produce was the mower ” Welch says it was hard to come up with a design He wanted something that would fold up out of the way when they weren’t transporting produce “It’s kind of like a Reese Hitch ” he says “It has sockets like a trailer hitch and is built with two of those one on each side I can pick the whole mechanism up or fold it up and pin it out of the way while we mow ” The metal basket is bolted onto a plate attached to the mower There’s 1 1/4-in square tubing that 1-in tubing slides down into “That 1-in tubing has an L-shaped bracket that will either hold it when it’s folded down or hold it up and it pins ” Welch says He built the carrier from scratch after visiting a friend who’d just replaced his air conditioner’s condenser unit The rods in the bottom are from an air conditioner grill “I like that grill better than expanded metal ” he says “And it’s what I had available ” While he’s not making any other baskets for sale Welch says it would be easy to attach something similar on any other zero-turn mower Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Max Welch 276 Seven Gables Road Austin Ark 72007 ph 662-701-8530

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