Here you go, move bees with this. 12 or 18 at a time.

[dbest]

http://www.truckpaper.com/listings/d...E8C7FC3E16DE90

[Tom G. Laury]

Looks like you could save a lot of money over buying a swinger if used as a loader. Might be the deal you've been waiting for.

[Missoura]

At least when you run the forks through the hive bodies due to not being able to see the forks enough you are in the truck protected from stings.

[Tom G. Laury]

With three or four forward speeds though, think how fast you could go!

[dbest]

Looks like you could save a lot of money over buying a swinger if used as a loader. Might be the deal you've been waiting for.

Thats about how much I paid for my loaders. I have rusty 610's. I wonder if you could put a ball on the fork and pull a big trailer.

[Tom G. Laury]

Get it DOT certified as Farm Equipment. Then, yeah, I think you got a good idea...Tractor -loader would look good goin down the road. I would paint the trailer the same root beer brown so it was all matching. Then I would paint DBEST Apiaries on the door!

[dbest]

You could find a paintless trailer...then I would really fit in around here. I had a friend wave at me while I was in a truck he'd never seen before, when I asked "how'd you know it was me" he replied: "It was kinda junky looking...like something you'd own." The real sad part, I had just bought it.

[Tom G. Laury]

Know all your buttons! your new vehicle is probably, like, 2 years old.

[dbest]

The newest one is a 2002.

[Bee'z waxed]

At least when you run the forks through the hive bodies due to not being able to see the forks enough you are in the truck protected from stings.

LOL --- sorry.. I couldn't help but laugh at this observation.

[jjgbee]

When I started in bees, beeks in my area would take an old 4wd , put forks on the rear, strip the chassis and face the seat to the rear with an orbit steering system. They worked great. One is still in use by a steel building erection company. This was befor you could buy a Swinger off the show room. All this fancy stuff you have now was dreamed up in some beeks garage and refined over the years.

[BEES4U]

I saw my 1st ones in ventura County Calif April 1973
Ernie

[Tom G. Laury]

Yeah they were all the rage around here for a while too. The hot set up was using the hydraulics to lift front wheels off the ground so no trailer. I bet some are still in use, for better or for worse. But either friction or fluid drive, all the backing and forwarding wears out too quick. People load a lot more bees now than " back then ". I had one I was virtually giving away but when scrap was high we just cut it up. Unless the wheel base is very short it takes a lot of space to manuever. Still, the resourceful can build something very useful.