V8Druid
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TiltyShaun
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Looks a very useful piece of kit if you have hard standing to work on!!
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Stroppymonkey
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Will cope with bad ground a lot better than any counterbalance FLT.
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Stroppymonkey
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TiltyShaun
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Simply….WOW
Only problem is…..how do you move it!!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and that is the issue with them ... they are a great AT unit though - all wheel drive and some even go sideways
Lancs Lad
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Drive it? ..at 10mph.
Must be a way make them road towable
Make a dummy rear truck trailer back end with ifor style a frame? Then just lift yourself up like you would normally?
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
now that is lateral thinking - brilliant idea - wonder what it weighs - might be a tad tail happy thoughDrive it? ..at 10mph.
Must be a way make them road towable
Make a dummy rear truck trailer back end with ifor style a frame? Then just lift yourself up like you would normally?
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Smiffy
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Well the forks slide so you could make fork pockets on top of a set of axles. Press down on the axles and retract forks and you would end up with the axles underneath you then a drawbar attached to the back of the moffet.
I have seen what I presume is a dealer for them a few times on the M23 with a custom trailer behind a pickup that side loads with 3 wheel skids so they sit sideways.
T whiting
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They only weigh just over 2 tons stick it on a ifor flatbed you just need to get a third ramp
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Stroppymonkey
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Mine is 2350mm wide and 2300kg . I’ve looked at it a few times as would be ideal to have it portable . Best I can come up with is a tilt bed 17’ x 7’ with raised runners to carry the outer wheels. Couple of pockets cut and welded in the right place to dock the legs, and the carriage can be moved in and out to suit the COG. Wide old lump to tow about. I’d not want to put it up 3 ramps
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Stroppymonkey
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newer ones are getting too heavy to tow unless you had a special lightweight bogey.
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DaveDCB
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Couldn’t you put them up 3 ramps over the side of a flatbed trailer?
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Stroppymonkey
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My forks are hydraulic so would be a PITA to remove. Weight is nearly all at the back so sideways loading would be hard to get the trailer towing nice I think.
TiltyShaun
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How are you finding it generally. I am slightly tempted after seeing some videos of them in use!!
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Stroppymonkey
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Had mine nearly 4 years. Apart from one hose popping and a dirty fuel filter its not cost me a penny apart from service and LOLER. Good job as I paid £7.5K+ vat for it during Pandemic madness. I have moved it over to the farm now and it copes well with everything apart from wet clay. Very stable, and able to unload a lorry from just one side. Once you get brain wrapped around how it drives - you can do a lot with it. Wouldn't want it without extending forks mind.
TiltyShaun
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No extending forks on the one for sale!! Still might do a job around the yard for me!!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
realistically only need the extenders if you want to unload a lorry from one side ... decent reach otherwise IMHDO ... no worse than a conventional counterbalance
if you wanted to unload from one side a set of extensions'd get it all over to the reachable side anyway
At £2k it's a very cheap Moffet - if it wasn't such a lump I'd be tempted, but want more capacity and a much narrower conventional counterbalance
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Stroppymonkey
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I find the extension forks useful in many ways. Fishing pallets out of holes, loading pickup over the tailgate, loading plant trailer over tail gate, poking stuff in the containers etc etc . Basically it makes it as versatile as a small tele forklift . They pop up on sale now and again.realistically only need the extenders if you want to unload a lorry from one side ... decent reach otherwise IMHDO ... no worse than a conventional counterbalance
if you wanted to unload from one side a set of extensions'd get it all over to the reachable side anyway
At £2k it's a very cheap Moffet - if it wasn't such a lump I'd be tempted, but want more capacity and a much narrower conventional counterbalance
Downside is they are thick and wide so you cant slide under stuff like a normal tine.
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
realistically you could achieve a lot of that with a set of extensions ... with the ability to travel the forks forward/backward, you can slip the extensions right through a pallet to get it back on the heels for trundling about, then extend forward, dump, retract and lift again on the extensions to get that reach ... little more faff than having hydraulic extenders, but with the legs, it'd still be stable reaching - no less so than with hyd ext. forks
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