Can I find a use for this?

[HubbardRA 19]

It is a 12 volt powered hydraulic pump with reservoir off of a truck mounted snowplow.

Well, what do you folks think. Can I find a use for it?

[D-17_Dave 12]

Well if you can't, I can.lol

[AC808 0]

Hmmmm..could fabricate a 2nd lift...

[stevenj 4]

You might run into problems keeping the battery charged with heavy use. I remember using our plow truck back in the 70's that only had a generator and if I was using the lift a lot I would end up draining the battery enough that I wouldn't be able to restart the truck if I killed the engine. After we upgraded trucks and had an alternator instead of the generator, we had less problems. Just something to keep in mind.

[ehertzfeld 1]

I have one from a lift gate trailer, I was toying with the idea of making a lift to lift tractors off the ground to work on. Could be a usefull tool aroud the house! Elon

[HubbardRA 19]

It is really too large to mount on a Garden Tractor. I think they also pull about 35 amps. After all, that motor is actually an automobile starter motor. I was thinking about building a hydraulic tilt for my tandem axle tilt-bed trailer. It is nice to be able to tilt the trailer and hold it there till tractors or an occasional automobile is fully loaded. Makes loading two tractors much easier. Been using a ratchet bumper jack. Kind of a shaky way of lifting the trailer up and keeping it there. My trailer was set up at the factory with a lift that works off a bottle jack. Hard to find replacement jacks. They don't last long on their side bouncing down the highway. Most have the pump in the wrong location to work. A plain, single action, hydraulic cylinder would be much better. Flip a switch the trailer would raise. Open a valve and it would lower. That is unless I got fancy and spent extra cash to buy a double action cylinder and a control valve, then it could be powered in both directions. Don't think that is really necessary. Let's see! I can mount the electric boat winch that my oldest son found at a yard sale. Maybe some LED tail lights, an new paint job, and then I would need a new truck to pull it with. Do you think Becky would agree with the new truck idea? NOT!! LOL Oh, by-the-way, I traded an old Sears snow blade without a hitch, and a Peerless tranny that was on my trailer waiting to go to the dump, for this unit. I'd basically call it "free".

[Simplicity314 0]

WOuld this work: Get a big alternator (as in amp output) from a junkyard, like out of a caddy, rig it to run off one of the PTOs, add a battery (so to keep it isolated from the tractor's ign. sys) and run the pump off that?

[richp 0]

Look at my "mutant" pics. I power the dump cylinder on my bucket with one. Had to mount it on the side, But works great.

[HubbardRA 19]

Rich, guess I didn't look at the pictures closely. I thought you had used a pump on the engine and that was a tank. Thanks for the info. I really don't need it for hydraulics on a tractor. I built a hydrolift off the charge pump for my AC716H and am going to do the same on my Simp 7116H when I get it restored. I am only mowing with my AC713S, so I don't really need hydraulics on it.

[Nick 0]

That was I was thinking Rod. Using to make a dump trailer.