I am thinking about getting a bucket rack to carry stuff for chores. It looks like I can install it in the front or rear.

www.bucketrack.com

Anybody have one?

The Moose drop rack is an alternative, but it only goes on the back and blocks the access to the Foreman's storage, costs more, and would have to be removed to use my spreader in the rear.

www.mooseutilities.com

Decisions, decisions...

 

I have the Moose drop rack.

It works too good. It's far too easy to overload the rear end. I used mine about 3 times and now it sits in my shed. Perhaps "sometime" I'll use it again. Too bad you live so far away, I'd sell you mine for a hunnert bucks in a nyoo yawk minnit.

 

Ol,

How much weight did you put in the rack?
Did moose rack bend or did it bend your original rack?

Thanks

 

I have had one for over a year. Nice little inexpensive accessory. I leave it on all the time, although I have never thought about trying it on the front. I have used it to pick up rocks from the fields, it will hold a lot of weight.

 

Oh, the rack did NOT bend,nor did the Moose drop-basket. Both still look "as new".

What I said (or intended to say) was the drop basket was WAY too easy to overload - meaning it's too easy to put too much weight on the back of the bike which in turn makes the front end light. On the ranch, that's never a problem. Out prospecting in the desert that can make getting up the steep side of an arroyo a bit dicey - especially for a fat man.

OTOH, it makes carrying 10 gal of water easy - but 10 gal of water weighs 84 pounds, plus the prospecting gear.... yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.

The Moose basket does have it's uses.

I'd guess you could easily get 250# on and in the basket - without damage to either the basket or the rear rack. Now over-stressing the rear suspension? Isin't that about 4 times what Honda recommends as max?

 

I just want to clarify, I have the bucketrack not the moose.

 

I was thinking of putting the bucket rack on the front when I have the spreader on the back.

Then again, I have been thinking of putting the spreader on the front so I can see what it is doing without having to look backwards all the time.....then the bucket rack would go on the back.