Good afternoon Neil. I have a lot of suggestions about your backhoe storage. But I'll give you two quick ones. The pallet may not be quite long enough for the first one bit here goes. If you curl the bucket all the way in it can't leak off and collapse. The other is to raise the outriggers and strap them together so they also can't leak off while stored. But these are just suggestions and you need to make it stable for you, not me. I store mine in my garage and built my dolly on two Harbor Freight furniture dollies and two pieces of "×4". And a couple of short pieces of 4"×4". I have a 260 backhoe. It's made a little different than the 260b. God bless and have a wonderful day. 👍👍🙂
That may have worked for the leak down. Now that I added the other boards it can't. The out riggers are all the way up and locked with their locks, so they stay put. This has made my life much easier. I am so glad I made it. God Bless you and thanks for your input keep it coming I learn things.
Nice. I built me one of those metal carts to roll around the concrete pad but I’m considering storing my backhoe in an area where it’s just dirt. You gave me some pretty good ideas on how to go about it. Keep up the good work.
I’d go under that pallet with the backhoe seat closest to the forks when moving it long distances. Should help stabilize the weight, especially when you tilt back a little.
Alternatively, you could bring your boom back so the seat tilts forward like it would on a bxpanded dolly. That would move the weight more to the center of the pallet.
Good afternoon Neil. I have a lot of suggestions about your backhoe storage. But I'll give you two quick ones. The pallet may not be quite long enough for the first one bit here goes. If you curl the bucket all the way in it can't leak off and collapse. The other is to raise the outriggers and strap them together so they also can't leak off while stored. But these are just suggestions and you need to make it stable for you, not me. I store mine in my garage and built my dolly on two Harbor Freight furniture dollies and two pieces of "×4". And a couple of short pieces of 4"×4". I have a 260 backhoe. It's made a little different than the 260b. God bless and have a wonderful day. 👍👍🙂
That may have worked for the leak down. Now that I added the other boards it can't. The out riggers are all the way up and locked with their locks, so they stay put. This has made my life much easier. I am so glad I made it. God Bless you and thanks for your input keep it coming I learn things.
Nice. I built me one of those metal carts to roll around the concrete pad but I’m considering storing my backhoe in an area where it’s just dirt. You gave me some pretty good ideas on how to go about it. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much. I am happy with the result.
Good Idea 👍👍
It has made my life so much easier. I wish I had a shop with concrete but it's not in the cards right now.
I’d go under that pallet with the backhoe seat closest to the forks when moving it long distances. Should help stabilize the weight, especially when you tilt back a little.
Alternatively, you could bring your boom back so the seat tilts forward like it would on a bxpanded dolly. That would move the weight more to the center of the pallet.
I have to move it later on I will try both thank you for the advice.