Fivepoints
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- East of Huntsville, AL
I built a rack recently for holding alturnmats for a friend's bucket truck. I'm pretty happy but always looking for better ideas. I figured I'd post up this one and hope others will post their setup as well to help give people ideas for how to store and transport them.
We set ours up with a skid steer quick attach plate. This guy has a full sized skid and a bobcat mt55. The MT55 will attach to this plate as well.
It holds 15 alturnmats. You could probably cram 16 in it but we didn't want them to be hard to get out of the rack. You can pick it off the truck with the loader so no more dragging them up on to the truck. If you curl them down you can pull one off the top in front of the loader and just drive the loader down the mats.
We used Cat1 tractor 3 point hitch pins for the mounts on the truck. I turned some bushings on my lathe that had a taper in the bottom of them to make it easier to line up when dropping it on the pins. We just mounted them through the deck with some 2" OD 3/16" thick washers that I cut out on my CNC plasma table.
Here it is all loaded with mats.
We set ours up with a skid steer quick attach plate. This guy has a full sized skid and a bobcat mt55. The MT55 will attach to this plate as well.
It holds 15 alturnmats. You could probably cram 16 in it but we didn't want them to be hard to get out of the rack. You can pick it off the truck with the loader so no more dragging them up on to the truck. If you curl them down you can pull one off the top in front of the loader and just drive the loader down the mats.
We used Cat1 tractor 3 point hitch pins for the mounts on the truck. I turned some bushings on my lathe that had a taper in the bottom of them to make it easier to line up when dropping it on the pins. We just mounted them through the deck with some 2" OD 3/16" thick washers that I cut out on my CNC plasma table.
Here it is all loaded with mats.
