Evening
Bit of a weird one, but I'll give it a go. What's the easiest, quickest, cheapest and safest way to lift and transport a 2 wheeler using a tractor & front end loader?
Back story: Occassionally, I need to drive a tractor to the other side of the farm, leave it there to do a long term job and then I end up walking 1 - 1.5km back home. After this initial trip, I'll drive to and from the tractor on the 2 wheeler (Yamaha AG100). Once the job is done (days or weeks later), I've got to walk back to the tractor so I can drive it back home. Something I've often thought about is, can I lift the Yamaha with a strop or something, sling it around the tractor forks and carry it with me? Then simply unload the bike, jump on and ride off into the sunset. I have driven the bike into my 1.8m bucket and transported it that way, however I prefer to "hang" the bike from the loader, that way it doesn't matter what attachment is on the loader.
I'm guessing I can't just put a strop/sling/strap through the rims....or can I? Or will I just bend the rims?
I don't want to damage the bike.
I don't want to drop the bike
I'm happy to weld or attach brackets or lifting eyes to the bike if needed, provided I won't be impaled by them when I fall off
I don't want to put it on the back (there will already be something on there) and I don't have a front linkage
Picture of the bike for those in the first world who haven't seen an AG100 before
I could probably get a strap around the front of the frame in front of the fuel tank and bring it up behind the handle bars, then go up, over the tractor loader bale forks and tie it back down around the rear shocks?
Bit of a weird one, but I'll give it a go. What's the easiest, quickest, cheapest and safest way to lift and transport a 2 wheeler using a tractor & front end loader?
Back story: Occassionally, I need to drive a tractor to the other side of the farm, leave it there to do a long term job and then I end up walking 1 - 1.5km back home. After this initial trip, I'll drive to and from the tractor on the 2 wheeler (Yamaha AG100). Once the job is done (days or weeks later), I've got to walk back to the tractor so I can drive it back home. Something I've often thought about is, can I lift the Yamaha with a strop or something, sling it around the tractor forks and carry it with me? Then simply unload the bike, jump on and ride off into the sunset. I have driven the bike into my 1.8m bucket and transported it that way, however I prefer to "hang" the bike from the loader, that way it doesn't matter what attachment is on the loader.
I'm guessing I can't just put a strop/sling/strap through the rims....or can I? Or will I just bend the rims?
I don't want to damage the bike.
I don't want to drop the bike
I'm happy to weld or attach brackets or lifting eyes to the bike if needed, provided I won't be impaled by them when I fall off
I don't want to put it on the back (there will already be something on there) and I don't have a front linkage
Picture of the bike for those in the first world who haven't seen an AG100 before
I could probably get a strap around the front of the frame in front of the fuel tank and bring it up behind the handle bars, then go up, over the tractor loader bale forks and tie it back down around the rear shocks?