Attachment Plate LADDER

[JohnLX565]

I am feeding the liquid protein tailings from a local brewery with the use of my skid steer and 300 gallon totes and hoses. I fill about 100 feet of various troughs with a short hose. Being AMONG the cattle has tamed them as opposed to just running it from the totes straight into the troughs ! BUT --- now that I am seen as the "food dispenser" to the cattle I get up and down from the totes quite a bit since the totes and hose has to be above the level of the trough. Had anyone ever developed a "ladder system" for the mounting plate that might "slide down" or flip down so that there is a means of climbing up and over the lift arms. Remember that the safety manual says that you aren't suppose to climb UNDER the arms and most of the time ---- the arms are low enough that it is hard to get in and out. You've got to go up and over ! I've got a few ideas but if someone has ALREADY built one --- there is no use "re-inventing the wheel"/ladder.
THanks for any plans/ideas/thoughts that you might have.

 

[foton]

I am feeding the liquid protein tailings from a local brewery with the use of my skid steer and 300 gallon totes and hoses. I fill about 100 feet of various troughs with a short hose. Being AMONG the cattle has tamed them as opposed to just running it from the totes straight into the troughs ! BUT --- now that I am seen as the "food dispenser" to the cattle I get up and down from the totes quite a bit since the totes and hose has to be above the level of the trough. Had anyone ever developed a "ladder system" for the mounting plate that might "slide down" or flip down so that there is a means of climbing up and over the lift arms. Remember that the safety manual says that you aren't suppose to climb UNDER the arms and most of the time ---- the arms are low enough that it is hard to get in and out. You've got to go up and over ! I've got a few ideas but if someone has ALREADY built one --- there is no use "re-inventing the wheel"/ladder.
THanks for any plans/ideas/thoughts that you might have.

maybe you should see if you can put a electric gate valve on the outlet so you can stay in the seat and feed , if you have a electric pin connector out front that should make it even easier to hook up. thinking about it a bit more I wonder if there is a hydraulic gate valve that could work with the remotes? just a idea ,never did any of this. and yup if something let loose when you are under the arms your day would not be good.

 

[JohnLX565]

maybe you should see if you can put a electric gate valve on the outlet so you can stay in the seat and feed , if you have a electric pin connector out front that should make it even easier to hook up. thinking about it a bit more I wonder if there is a hydraulic gate valve that could work with the remotes? just a idea ,never did any of this. and yup if something let loose when you are under the arms your day would not be good.

Previously I had a 3 ft spigot and with a light 3" hose on the end and would turn on the outlet valve --- and crawl in the cab and just drive past my 100 ft of trough and fill everything full in about 3 minutes. I have converted to a shorter stiffer hose, with a valve on the end so that I can walk from trough to trough AMONG the cattle on foot so that they become "more civilized" and trust someone standing among them as opposed to thinking that a machine named NEW HOLLAND feeds them. BUT I can't use a LONG hose to fill all the troughs or they will be walking all over it. So NOW, I have to fill about 3 troughs at a time, get back in the NH and move it a bit--- crawl back out-- and manhandle the hose to fill the next three----- while the bottom of the tote (and the forks) are about 3 to 4 feet off the ground.
I could drop the tote to ground level and use a gas powered pump --- but the gravity fed hose and a two legged creature seems to generate some "trust" that isn't there previously.
Not really a SKID STEER issue, just an "access/safety" issue. I guess I could lay out the $$$$ and buy a side entry JCB !!! LOL

 

[foton]

Previously I had a 3 ft spigot and with a light 3" hose on the end and would turn on the outlet valve --- and crawl in the cab and just drive past my 100 ft of trough and fill everything full in about 3 minutes. I have converted to a shorter stiffer hose, with a valve on the end so that I can walk from trough to trough AMONG the cattle on foot so that they become "more civilized" and trust someone standing among them as opposed to thinking that a machine named NEW HOLLAND feeds them. BUT I can't use a LONG hose to fill all the troughs or they will be walking all over it. So NOW, I have to fill about 3 troughs at a time, get back in the NH and move it a bit--- crawl back out-- and manhandle the hose to fill the next three----- while the bottom of the tote (and the forks) are about 3 to 4 feet off the ground.
I could drop the tote to ground level and use a gas powered pump --- but the gravity fed hose and a two legged creature seems to generate some "trust" that isn't there previously.
Not really a SKID STEER issue, just an "access/safety" issue. I guess I could lay out the $$$$ and buy a side entry JCB !!! LOL

well those are nice ,very spacious cab,I agree you would look good in one