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Re: The pasture buggie
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05/02/07 04:28 AM
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Obviously makes picking up chips much easier. 
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Nice cart I got two a prisy one...as here
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And a worker one as here....... Sure wish you could post two pics at a time!!!!!!!
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Re: The pasture buggie
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05/02/07 02:52 PM
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Yo can use Irfanview (free photo manipulation software available from irnfanview.com, really great program) to join as many separate pix into one panoramic picture and then post the composite.
Nice carts. How wide of tires can you run without them rubbing or hitting when you take a bounce? and how steep of a hill can you ordinarily climb with a couple large adults on board?
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Re: The pasture buggie
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05/02/07 04:05 PM
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The blue one has 28x10x12 on it. Probably could go to 12 wide. The geen one has 23x12x10 on it. Doubt you could go wider but could go taller. The blue one will pull a 100% grade with two or 3 people the green one will climb anything that it can get traction for it is 4x4 with locking axles.
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"prisy"?
It's got horns, doesn't it?
Here is the 'before' picture of ours, when we first got it, and AFTER it was cleaned up.
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Re: The pasture buggie
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Awesome performance and so easily controlled. I envy you. I have used my street legal VW dune buggy in the pasture but it is not geared down enough. The skid pan keeps the grass off the hot exhaust so it isn't a terrible fire hazard but your electrics, of course, are as safe as a horse, fire wise.
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Re: The pasture buggie
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I don't believe I have ever seen an after market bed like that one. Can you post a sideways pic of the bed?
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Another. Jim, I've sent you a PM where we got it.
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Re: The pasture buggie
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Thats neet never saw one of those. Mine has the flit seat but the workarea is just a flat area.
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 That is one fine looking VOLTS WAGON. 
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Just got one of these. We garden at the opposite end of the property, and that combined with all of the other chores going from one end to the other made these seem necessary. I had to convince myself it wasn't just a toy I wanted in the collection. I've only had it a few days and it's already been useful.
Is everybody else making good use of theirs? What sort of things are you doing with them?
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I could not begin to make a list I use mine everyday for something. here is pic of whats in the bed right now. Color is off I had to fill flash it pretty hard.
I also use mine to drag my arena and round pen. It works better than my small tractor. Stuff thats in there tha I have used in the last day or two.
Power drill/driver/screws
nails ohm meter
fence tool
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electric fence rope
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I can't tell what kind that is yanaha?
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Re: The pasture buggie
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MY pasture buggy is a 1989 Dodge Dakota 4x4 pickup. Goes anywhere on the place, is lighter on its feet than either of my diesel pickups, has a nice cargo box, is enclosed for inclimate weather but has opening windows on both sides and in the back. Can seat 3 in the cab and overflow in the bed.
It cost less than most of the Off-Road golf carts and way less than the better of the genre like the Rhino and such. I have no need to be able to put it in the bed of a pickup or load it onto a trailer to move it to a remote site as it is street legal and can be roaded for significant distances including high speed interstate travel.
It is not configured with a little dump bed but I have alternatives that preclude that being a problem.
If I am willing to forgo road travel I can drop the tag and insurance and have an extremely economical pasture buggie.
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Pat,
I used my pickup or tractor up until now for any lugging chores. What I was finding difficult was gates, tight turns, shifting gears on the tractor (wife doesn't do manual tranny yet), and overall access stuff. We have another ATV we bought for our son, but it's a sport model, shifts like a motorcycle, and doesn't have any racks or anything to haul. It ended up being more of a nuisance to get things back and forth from the garden with it.
What I like about the new cart is the bed, auto tranny, small size compared to the pickup or tractor, and it's got box hitch inserts on front and back. We're fabricating a top and windscreen now for trips in the rain. It's also a lot more efficient than the truck or tractor in terms of fuel for short trips like we are doing.
Have I justified it yet? 
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My '86 Bronco II 4x4 fills this need most of the time. Sometimes I miss the bed on my 1 ton diesel, but its not a big deal to hook up a small utility trailer or the welding trailer to the BII. Like Pat's Dakota, the BII goes anywhere, gets a LOT better mileage than the 1 ton. Plus it has doors, a windshield and a heater knob. And it makes a pretty good beater going back and forth to work.
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Justified? Not that it is required but YES! Everyone's situation is in part unique and the range of solutions appropriate for each individual may overlap with the other guy's. The success of my "buggy" (note alternate spelling) is partially due to the scale factor. I am ranging over 160 acres and have few or no close-in tight spots that defy my maneuvering ability with the Dakota.
For the price of a good off road golf cart I can buy an awful lot of gasoline for the Dakota.
On the surface our uses superficially resemble one another to a reasonable degree but really are not the same. The Dakota is full length box not extended cab. I can carry a generator, air compressor, plasma cutter, stick and mig welders, chopsaw, etc. and do some serious work with it rather than use a trailer to haul everything (which I sometimes do if that fits my needs.)
I can do most of what you do with my Dakota except for the really tight close in maneuvering. Of course, there isn't an old Dakota dealership around and buying used trucks hoping to get a good one can be frustrating and time wasting. We have been lucky that this Dakota has aged gracefully and if we didn't already have it, I'd have already bought me one of those terribly expensive off road golf carts.
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Re: The pasture buggie
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Re: Is everybody else making good use of theirs? What sort of things are you doing with them?
Our buggie, with its wide, flotation tires, makes very little impact on the grass where we cross the pond overflow. The cargo box allows carrying meal and cubes for the cattle that otherwise would be lugged by yours truly. (It's a little bit from the road to the loafing shed.)
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Jazz, That wet travel issue is a mixed blessing with the Dakota. It leaves less "footprints" than either of our diesels (1 ton dodge dually or F-250 PowerStroke) or the tractor but is still not as light on its feet as an off road golf cart. I have been ignoring my VW dune/beach buggy/pasture buggy which is street legal and is quite light on its feet. It is fitted with enormous rear tires so the heavy end doesn't sink in and larger than stock ones up front. The rear tread is barely more aggressive than a set of cheater slicks so it does slide around a bit on wet grass and of course on mud.
The VW buggy is probably as close to an off road golf cart as you will see short of the real thing but being 2 wheel drive it is not quite so capable in the slick stuff. It does have a fair capacity platform in back above and forward of the engine and can carry several sacks of cubes or a few buckets of xxx.
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While purpose-built pasture buggies do get the job done, it's real hard to beat a good used '51 Buick Roadmaster with the rear seat jerked out.  That 360-cubic inch straight eight and the Dynaflo transmission can make cruising the weeds akin to driving on a cloud. 
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But Dave if you had one in half decent shape that ran you could probably sell it for more than enough to buy a new UTV.
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When I wuz still in skool in da early-early sixties I worked weekends in a big wrecking yard. I could not COUNT the number of early model Boo-ahs I put to the torch. They were like leaves on the trees. The Roadmasters actually had a lot of stainless steel used for interior ornamentation. The whole dash was bright, chrome and stainless. Some of the big Roadmasters had two carbs on that big straight eight. Of all the stupid stuff I have done, I think that letting a 1938 Cadillac Opera Sedan go to the chopping block was about the worst. This car had come from an estate, was jet black with a finish that you could see yourself in, had been garaged all of its life, and was perfect except for a cracked engine block. Now in terms of restorations, what could be easier than replacing the engine? We had oodles of flathead Caddy engines in the yard. I could have bought the car for 25 bucks and swapped the engine for fifty , and then put that superb relic in mothballs for twenty years or maybe even thirty, and then it would be off to the big antique auto auction for some real $$$$.  
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I used to see more home brew pickups, big tuna boat sized cars with the back seat out to connect the volume there to the trunk. Typically the trunk lid was gone and a crude box was installed like a pickup bed. I haven't seen any for several years now, used to not be so rare. Hadn't thought about them till your comments, Dave.
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