2013 - Volume #37, Issue #6, Page #28
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Mower Converted To Riding Dump Cart
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“I cut a lot of firewood,” explains Foster. “I can load up the cart with my chainsaw and other tools, hook up the splitter and drive onto my 17-ft. trailer to head to the woods.”
“I built an extended frame out of salvaged road signpost material. It’s 1 3/4-in. square steel tubing, lightweight, but very strong,” says Foster. “I slid lengths of the tubing alongside the frame to either side of the seat, as far as I could and welded them to the riding mower frame.”
He then attached a crosspiece just behind the mower and mounted a steel plate at the ends of the tubing. Foster reinforced the end plate with angled tubing from its bottom edge back to the bed frame. Steel plates welded to the sides of the frame extensions, the support tubing and the end plate create a solid tipping point for the dump bed. This also creates a sturdy foundation to which Foster can attach his 1 1/2-in. receiver hitch and a ball for towing his wood splitter.
“To create a pivot for the box to dump, I welded 5/8-in. pins to pieces of flat steel and welded the flat steel to the angle iron at the bottom rear of the dump box,”
says Foster. “With the box in place, I slid pieces of pipe over the pins and welded them to the rear plate. I can dump it by hand when I want.”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Kenneth Foster, 22522 231 Terrace, Springhill, Kan. 66083 (ph 913 244-5964; bbfbuilderkf@yahoo.com).
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