Golf Cart Pulls Homemade 2-Wheeled Trailer
I use a golf cart to pull this homemade 4 by 6-ft., 2-wheeled trailer. Works great for hauling buckets of feed to cattle and for hauling wood and fixing fence, etc. It saves a lot of wear and tear on our tractor. The trailer rides on a pair of 16-in. motorcycle wheels, with a long threaded shaft serving as the axle. The bed is made from 2 by 4's mounted on an angle iron frame, the floor from expanded metal, and the tongue from lightweight sq. tubing.
We use an outdoor wood burning stove to heat our house and haul and stack the wood in wooden boxes that we set on a 2-pronged, 3-pt. mounted bale carrier. We get the boxes free from a local asphalt company. They measure 3 1/2 ft. wide by 5 ft. long and are 3 ft. high. I drop the boxes full of wood close to the furnace. Once the logs are dry I feed them one by one directly into the furnace.
To make picking up the boxes an easier job, I installed a 3 by 10-in. hydraulic cylinder in place of the top link on my tractor's 3-pt. hitch. I built a mounting bracket for the cylinder and use a lever to extend or retract it. The stabilizer chains have to be kept tight to prevent side sway. (Perry Hathaway, 4238 W 625 South, Claypool, Ind. 46510 ph 574 491-3448)
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Golf Cart Pulls Homemade 2-Wheeled Trailer WAGONS/TRAILERS Miscellaneous 30-2-41 I use a golf cart to pull this homemade 4 by 6-ft., 2-wheeled trailer. Works great for hauling buckets of feed to cattle and for hauling wood and fixing fence, etc. It saves a lot of wear and tear on our tractor. The trailer rides on a pair of 16-in. motorcycle wheels, with a long threaded shaft serving as the axle. The bed is made from 2 by 4's mounted on an angle iron frame, the floor from expanded metal, and the tongue from lightweight sq. tubing.
We use an outdoor wood burning stove to heat our house and haul and stack the wood in wooden boxes that we set on a 2-pronged, 3-pt. mounted bale carrier. We get the boxes free from a local asphalt company. They measure 3 1/2 ft. wide by 5 ft. long and are 3 ft. high. I drop the boxes full of wood close to the furnace. Once the logs are dry I feed them one by one directly into the furnace.
To make picking up the boxes an easier job, I installed a 3 by 10-in. hydraulic cylinder in place of the top link on my tractor's 3-pt. hitch. I built a mounting bracket for the cylinder and use a lever to extend or retract it. The stabilizer chains have to be kept tight to prevent side sway. (Perry Hathaway, 4238 W 625 South, Claypool, Ind. 46510 ph 574 491-3448)
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