Trailer-Powered Cherry Picker

Trailer-Powered Cherry Picker TRACTORS Miscellaneous Wayne Beauchamp Tampa Florida gets a lot of use out of his converted cherry picker which began life on an electric power company truck He modified it to pull behind his New Holland 75 hp front wheel assist tractor powered by the tractor s hydraulic system      It s a safe convenient way to do maintenance on buildings and is handy for use as a bucket lift he says     The cherry picker was in pieces when he found it at a junk yard He removed the lift boom from the truck then redesigned the hydraulic system to run on his tractor s hydraulics Then he rebuilt the lift and welded it onto the frame and axle off an old bus     He mounted a pair of stabilizer legs on back and a screw jack on each side in order to hold the trailer steady      I built it because I have a tree farm and a mobile home park where I do all the maintenance work myself including a lot of tree trimming says Beauchamp I use a grapple fork on the tractor to handle the trees My bucket lift makes the work much easier I m 72 years old and don t climb trees anymore so this is the only way I can still do the tree work      I ve also used it to paint my barn and to change street light bulbs I park it in the woods and use it to hunt It also works great for photographing wildlife     The controls mount in a box on front of the bucket Beauchamp made a bracket on the bucket where he stores a chainsaw and limb He also mounted an aluminum cover over the box to keep wood chips from falling into it as he saws tree limbs     He says his total cost was about $600 mostly for hydraulic hoses and parts          Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Wayne Beauchamp 7416 E Sligh Ave Tampa Florida 33610 ph 813 626-8993

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