BX22 FEL indicator?

[gsxr1100]

Does Kubota make a FEL indicator (rod, tube, etc) for a BX22 or any BX? I just would like to install one if made.

 

[Henro]

My B2910 has a simple level indicator that works pretty good. It is simply a piece of steel strap that is welded on, that is parallel with the bucket bottom.

Simple and effective.

The attached photo is not the greatest, but you can see what I am talking about on the far end of the bucket. The bucket is pointing downwards...take that into consideration when viewing the photo... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Junkman]

My BX has the same thing, but it is of little value to me. I can't tell much from it because my eye sight isn't that good and I am a lousy judge of what is level without a level. My old tractor had a rod that was painted black and white, so I could tell exactly where level was. Where the black met the white. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bird]

Junkman, my B7100 had the rod and my B2710 had the flat strap like Henro's picture. I can't remember who it was, but someone quite some time ago posted a suggestion I thought was pretty good for the flat strap type, although I never did it. It was to take a clear plastic bottle, fill it about half full of a colored liquid and tape it, laying on its side, on top of that flat strap. With it level, you could draw a line down the side of the bottle that might help. And if it got torn off, you wouldn't lose much and could replace it.

 

[DaGoatMan]

That bottle of water trick is an excellent idea. Cheap and a sure to be effective. Sometimes the little things are the best things.

DaGoatMan

 

[Henro]

Well...I'll be darned!

I just realized that I never really try to make my bucket "level" as in carpenter-level level!

Normally I use the "level" indicator as an angle indicator, or in other words to indicate the relative position of the bucket bottom.

Bird, that water bottle trick is a neat idea. Thinking about it caused me to realize I don't have a level idicator at all. I have a bucket-bottom-position-indicator. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Bird, that water bottle trick is a neat idea )</font>

Yeah, I thought so, and I'd give credit where credit is due, expect I can't remember who posted that idea quite some time ago. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( My BX has the same thing, but it is of little value to me. I can't tell much from it because my eye sight isn't that good and I am a lousy judge of what is level without a level. My old tractor had a rod that was painted black and white, so I could tell exactly where level was. Where the black met the white. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

Do you have a photo? I can't picture it or how it would be attached or work. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Thanks.

 

[gsxr1100]

I guess you would need a non-freezing liquid in the bottle since the level will be the same below 32 F, 0C, 273K.

I like the idea though. Being Polish, stranger things have happened! ....it is possible in my world! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[TheKid]

You could always use windshield washer fluid. It's already got the blue tint and won't freeze.