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1A Rock

1A Rock

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Today I needed to put the bed on my truck, no one around and due to the gooseneck hitch, it pretty much has to go on exactly. I had it rigged up on my forklift but didn't want to chance scruffing the back of the freshly painted cab. I studied my available supplies and noticed the stack of foam pads from the bottom of SPI shipping boxes. I taped one pad to each corner of the cab and got the bed on perfectly without any collateral damage.
Also I fold one and put it in my pocket when I need to be working close to the floor and can pitch it down to kneel on to save my old knees.
 
I can't stand wearing knee pads so I used anything I can find, cardboard, folded up rags and such.
Don't have a forklift but these come in handy.

John

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I use mine for all sorts of physical things. When you work alone you need to get creative.
Here I made some adapter plates to attach the rotisserie to the skid-steer bucket so I can jockey it around on uneven and sloped surfaces. I even have pulled it onto the lawn so I could work in the shade.
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I was looking at 1840's & 1845"s before I got the 185. Got it to help clear 7 acres of timber and I've used it for so much other stuff that I don't wanna sell it now. :D NIce shop, like the moosehead sign!!
 
1A Rock said:
Today I needed to put the bed on my truck, no one around and due to the gooseneck hitch, it pretty much has to go on exactly. I had it rigged up on my forklift but didn't want to chance scruffing the back of the freshly painted cab. I studied my available supplies and noticed the stack of foam pads from the bottom of SPI shipping boxes. I taped one pad to each corner of the cab and got the bed on perfectly without any collateral damage.
Also I fold one and put it in my pocket when I need to be working close to the floor and can pitch it down to kneel on to save my old knees.
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I am a one man operation as well, without the luxury of a fork lift or a shop big enough to drive one around in.
Generally, I have to do as you did except I use my engine hoist and as the famous Abbott & Costello line, it's "step by step, inch by inch"!
 
Friend came by and asked how much I paid for trimming my tree limbs.
Nothing.
What? You know someone ?
Not exactly. I have another friend with a climbing deer stand.
I worked for 46 yrs basically alone doing service and repair and you just 'figure it out'.
 
All this talk of skid steer loaders reminds me of Ward Burton on the John Boy and Billy Show trying to do an ad for CAT. One of the funniest things I've heard on JB&B. If you don't know who John Boy and Billy are, they are a southern morning staple.

 
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