Needed more space

[tomstractorsandtoys]

Combine heads take up lots of shed room so I decided to stack them up. I have a head mover with skid loader brackets so moving them is not a problem. Hope to build another one next year for chopper heads in the other shed.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Combine heads take up lots of shed room so I decided to stack them up. I have a head mover with skid loader brackets so moving them is not a problem. Hope to build another one next year for chopper heads in the other shed.

Great idea. So are you saying you have something on the front of your skid steer which allows you to drive into and pick up the headers just as you do with the combine? Is this a purchased or home made adaptor?

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

Great idea. So are you saying you have something on the front of your skid steer which allows you to drive into and pick up the headers just as you do with the combine? Is this a purchased or home made adaptor?

The head mover was originally for on the 3 point hitch of a tractor and someone added the skid loader brackets. They are fairly common here in the midwest and usually bring $100-250 at auctions. I would take a pic but I slid it under the corn head and put a field cultivator in front of it. I only have a 4 row corn head and the flex and ridged heads are both 13 ft. A friend stacks his 6 row heads and 18 ft grain heads but says it is all his skid loader wants to do it.

 

[620 John]

Great idea. I've also seen them somehow parked vertical with the snoots pointed straight up. Not sure how that's accomplished though.

When we get a new head in at the dealership they come on shipping stands with the head facing vertical. It gets picked up off the truck using the forks on the pay loader and use a special fork attachment and chains to tip the head down in the operation position. It's always interesting doing the tipping part with a 45 ft draper.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Great idea. I've also seen them somehow parked vertical with the snoots pointed straight up. Not sure how that's accomplished though.

When we get a new head in at the dealership they come on shipping stands with the head facing vertical. It gets picked up off the truck using the forks on the pay loader and use a special fork attachment and chains to tip the head down in the operation position. It's always interesting doing the tipping part with a 45 ft draper.

We had a tractor-size forklift at the dealership we used to tip corn heads, square balers, etc. I don't know why these things pop into my mind- but just now recalling- I was transferring a new tractor and new three row corn head from another dealer, when I headed home all that was on the radio was President Reagan was shot.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Putting 25 and 30 foot or bigger heads don't work so well that way. Why not just ad a lean to on the side of the shed to pull heads in on a wagon/ trailer type set up will go into lower spaced building and save that higher shed for silage wagons and combines you can't use a lower shed for. A 20 foot lean to would let you back them in from the eaves or pull them in from the end . We use a lean to for the mower ,drill, and smaller tractors then the cab tractors can go into the higher shed. Just a thought. We tilt our 25 and 30 foot head up vertical to work on the bottom side with a telehandler put the forks down behind the head at the feederhouse opening then with a couple chains around the fork frame and the top frame of the head lift and tip back so they are vertical then set them down on a couple blocks while keeping the head tied to the forks so it doesn't tip over . I have changed the ball joints on a couple flex head that way and change out the flex links also. Easier than working under it for that if there is much to do. Chaff and dirt falls down not on you too. I would like to be able to stack wagons so I could put 2 in the same space as one or put my rake on one rather than have to let some set out .

 

[8850dave]

We stored our old 643 corn heads with points up just like they were shipped many years just needed a guy guiding the head as you were getting it in place to unhook the chains, also stood it up in shop to replace the rolls

 

[jon f mn]

That is an excellent idea.

 

[Fixingfarmer]

That is a very good idea. They do take up a frustrating amount of room we used to have a pickup head we would put up high and stayed there most of my life but the head trailer for the 30 foot would take up the space anyway and we just turn the combine around and park the auger on top of the 8 row cornhead so nobody hits it in the far back of the shed since it doesnt have a trailer anyway. Then put the lawn mower in the area taken up by the duals. The chopping cornhead would need a wheel loader to lift it like we had at the dealer if you wanted to put it on top she’s heavy for the size

 

[NY 986]

Combine heads take up lots of shed room so I decided to stack them up. I have a head mover with skid loader brackets so moving them is not a problem. Hope to build another one next year for chopper heads in the other shed.

Far from common but I have seen smaller implements such as forage harvester heads, forage blowers, side delivery rakes, cultivators, and small plows done like that.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

Combine heads take up lots of shed room so I decided to stack them up. I have a head mover with skid loader brackets so moving them is not a problem. Hope to build another one next year for chopper heads in the other shed.

You have 3 great ideas, 1 is making a tall pole barn so: 2 stacking combine heads and 3. the light panels you installed. No need for lighting during the day.
Someone needs to compile a list of all the great pole barn ideas,
I think you have another great idea. Angle bracing your poles at the top.

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

You have 3 great ideas, 1 is making a tall pole barn so: 2 stacking combine heads and 3. the light panels you installed. No need for lighting during the day.
Someone needs to compile a list of all the great pole barn ideas,
I think you have another great idea. Angle bracing your poles at the top.

Another shed idea I like is doors on the inside if room permits. Sure beats shoveling snow drifts away from the outside before doors can be opened to get the skid loader.

 

[DoubleO7]

Another shed idea I like is doors on the inside if room permits. Sure beats shoveling snow drifts away from the outside before doors can be opened to get the skid loader.

Doors like this will be on my next building.
Even if I scrap what is on one already built!

 

[Geo-TH,In]

Another shed idea I like is doors on the inside if room permits. Sure beats shoveling snow drifts away from the outside before doors can be opened to get the skid loader.

I have a 10x10 overhead door. Snow isn't a problem. You may need a sliding door to get combines inside. That could be a problem.
NO idea what the biggest overhead door can be.