pallet fork extensions

Gathering ideas/thoughts for making pallet fork extensions for my skid steer. The intended use will not be very heavy but is needed for balance. I have many shooting houses on my hunting lease that need to be moved from time to time. They are mostly 6ft by 6 ft 6 inches. My forks are 40 inches. Extending them to make 7 ft would allow me to move them without having to run a long strap around the house and back of fork frame. I'm thinking of something like a 6 in "C" channel with a 4" plate welded at the back, bobcat side and another at the end fork length, 40". No need in cutting down the tip end because I can lift the houses a few inches and put a brick or something under the corner. Anybody built these before? What would you do different?

I have seen them made before, but they went the extra mile and tapered the tips. I see no reason why your idea wouldn't work. The ones i saw were made from box section, 5-6" by 2-3", just big enough to slide over the forks.
I'd just put something at the back so you can put a chain through them to prevent them slipping off.
Over here they call them slippers.

Tazza said:

I have seen them made before, but they went the extra mile and tapered the tips. I see no reason why your idea wouldn't work. The ones i saw were made from box section, 5-6" by 2-3", just big enough to slide over the forks.
I'd just put something at the back so you can put a chain through them to prevent them slipping off.
Over here they call them slippers.

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I made a set of extended forks a while back; I was looking for C channel or 2x6 RT, but being cheap was just searching the scrapyards and online ads. Found some 7' 4x8 I beams for real cheap and wound up using them. They also had a couple chunks of .250x9" flat bar for boxing in the bottom and extending the tips a foot. Total material cost was only $40, so I was happy to compromise on the thicker cross section. These were meant to handle bulkier items that would be difficult to manage otherwise, like moving sheds and lifting canopies and such. It's also a good platform for anchoring the tire changer to so it's not permanently in the way somewhere.

flyerdan said:

I made a set of extended forks a while back; I was looking for C channel or 2x6 RT, but being cheap was just searching the scrapyards and online ads. Found some 7' 4x8 I beams for real cheap and wound up using them. They also had a couple chunks of .250x9" flat bar for boxing in the bottom and extending the tips a foot. Total material cost was only $40, so I was happy to compromise on the thicker cross section. These were meant to handle bulkier items that would be difficult to manage otherwise, like moving sheds and lifting canopies and such. It's also a good platform for anchoring the tire changer to so it's not permanently in the way somewhere.

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There have been times slippers like that would have been very handy.
You did well getting the material so cheap.