SilliamWhale
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You can get a new platform on eBay for £275
quick fixes, bodges and creations
- Thread starter jimmer
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tullah
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- Location
- Linconshire
Sounds good price. Looked on ebay but can't see one. A lot of roofing repairs to do, can you send a link?
SilliamWhale
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xforklift safety access platform&_nkw=forklift safety access platform&_sacat=0&_from=R40
It seems ok. i'm sure its made to a price. Have a chat with the bloke maybe?
It seems ok. i'm sure its made to a price. Have a chat with the bloke maybe?
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
but even a bucket is 10 times safer than a ladder
SilliamWhale
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Yeah but bucket days are gone. We must accept this. Like spraying without a cab and non guard PTO shafts
- Location
- South wales
Yes your are right but if you only occasionally need to work at height to screw a bit of gutter up say it's allot of money to be sat on the yard for 99% of the time!
Combines are very expensive and also spend most of the year doing nothing but taking up barn space. Its that 1% of the time that justifies the cost. While your twisting the gaffers arm into getting/making one, I'd recommend not skimping on the size, give yourself plenty of space to work in.
- Location
- South wales
I totally agree but you can see why people don't bother
SilliamWhale
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Well I thought that but £275 isn't a fortune. Best way to justify it is sell some stuff you haven't used for a few years on eBay and use the money for one.
We use a transport box.
Our loader has an a frame attachment, so we can fit any a frame equipped implement on the loader...
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
same here- got a loader/3pt link adapter so i can pick the link box up amoungst other things
- Location
- South wales
Was thinking about knocking a frame up for the telehandler be bloody brilliant on the post rammer
But your a long time dead
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
i am currently in the finishing stages of making a link box for transporting calves etc and have made it to be a man platform as well just need to decide whether to put handler brackets on it or make up a frame for handler that will also pick up A frame stuff
Bloody relatives
- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
I reluctantly bought a basket after strong advise from the nfu, we use it more than I expected and you certainly feel safer in it , its smaller than a grain bucket but in reality its just as big as you can safely lean over the sides.
the biggest difference is the non slip floor compared to a shiney grain bucket. previously we also used a potato box bolted to the tines that was ok not legal apparently ( esp not our old semi rotten box).
the main times you notice benefits of a basket are power washing the inside roofs of poultry sheds and chain sawing at height. both jobs i know wonder why I ever stood in a grain bucket to do them
A neighbour built a bolt on safety rail for his bucket, neat idea
the biggest difference is the non slip floor compared to a shiney grain bucket. previously we also used a potato box bolted to the tines that was ok not legal apparently ( esp not our old semi rotten box).
the main times you notice benefits of a basket are power washing the inside roofs of poultry sheds and chain sawing at height. both jobs i know wonder why I ever stood in a grain bucket to do them
A neighbour built a bolt on safety rail for his bucket, neat idea
General-Lee
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- Location
- Devon
We got a man cage couple years ago after the link box floor rotted through. And is great for chain sawing cleaning gutters, shed building. But isn't so good when working on roofs(repairing) we've an old barton farmyard which is all slates and lose several a year, cage gets complaints cause you open the door(on the side) to get on the roof there's nothing below, whereas a bucket you can run up and down and know the bucket is there to catch you! The builder that does that sort of work now always grumbles when we turn up with the cage.
And is great for chain sawing cleaning gutters, shed building. But isn't so good when working on roofs(repairing) we've an old barton farmyard which is all slates and lose several a year, cage gets complaints cause you open the door(on the side) to get on the roof there's nothing below, whereas a bucket you can run up and down and know the bucket is there to catch you! The builder that does that sort of work now always grumbles when we turn up with the cage.