Front end loader for trucks?

blunosr · Jul 23, 2011

Hi, I passed some nasty road-kill on the highway the other day and it got me to thinking about how to pick that up. I used to work for the Department of Lands and forests, and a pair of gloves and a strong constitution sometimes just aren't enough...

Has anyone designed a front end loader for ordinary pickup trucks? It seems like a great idea to me...

bye for now,

Troy

Anonymous-0 · Jul 23, 2011

The Unimog has all types of attachments available including front loader

Ultradog MN · Jul 23, 2011

The City of Minneapolis used to have some trucks with FELs on them. Larger than a PU though - single axle dump trucks.
They could go to a pile, load the dump box full of gravel, wood chips, etc and then go dump it. Fel lifted the load over the top of the cab and emptied it into the box. I haven't seen one now for a few years but they used to be common.

wijim · Jul 23, 2011

Ever try to pick up a dead animal with a front end loader? good luck. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Jul 23, 2011

SHA, here used to have a couple, but they were way too efficient. Now they get to take the 2-3 yard loader they keep at the salt teepee, drive it 10 miles, and pick up the 90 lb dead deer, along with a half of a yard of topsoil, and drive back to the salt teepee. I just picked up a dead deer, with my little ASV and a grapple bucket. It was unsavory smelling, but I didn't have to touch it. Nowhere near as efficient as SHA, but I don't have their budget!

TimV · Jul 23, 2011

Yup--our local village has one like that on a small dump truck. They mainly use it for snow removal in the village there there's too much snow to just plow and they have to take it away and dump it. It lets one person and one piece of equipment plow, load, transport and unload the snow.

Oldmax · Jul 23, 2011

Pick up road kill you got to be kidding around here they just dust it with lime and let it decay. But if you move it out of drive way and it happens to get in a waterway "creek" they will fine you.

John Harmon · Jul 23, 2011

I"ve never seen a State,County or City truck with such a devise here in Az.,which does not mean they don"t exist how ever. Most road kill of small animals or birds usually are left where they lay and get smashed till they disappear,Larger road kill such as deer,large Dogs etc ,which are so rare here,usually are picked up by Dot crews or on the rare occasion drug to the side of the road and left there.This usually happens on secondary roads such as Desert dirt roads.Interstates and state highways generally are pretty clean except for the occasional large marroon spot on the road surface.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 23, 2011

I've seen loaders on trucks but it was a long time ago. Why not use something like a 1 ton truck with a Hiab type picker and grapple on it?

sws55 · Jul 23, 2011

Add a bucket or forks to an old used garbage truck that tips dumpsters up and back over the cab into the truck box?

Old Roy · Jul 23, 2011

I think someone has a start on one
wont lift into the bed though

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