OMG, already thinking of winter

[Diggin It]

70 yesterday. Forecast for 70 today. Then 40s for next week with 30-ish overnight. Waiting the the winter galoshes to drop come late Jane and Feb.

 

[ArlyA]

We've been warm here but had enough base to keep things nice. Seems we've had 100" for the year.

 

[Diggin It]

Knew some guys in the late 70s that had been at K.I. Sawyer years earlier. The stories they told about the plows and the piles .......

 

[Thomas]

Been kinda lucky here so far bare ground 3" snow here and there and no snow storms in sight till January...now that's the winter I like.

 

[Ridge]

Wife went to use snowblower and she called me and said tractor beeps and keeps shutting off, took abit but finnally figured out it's the seat switch, she has to move seat around to get weight in right spot in order for it to work but even turning around takes weight off turning tractor off, any ideas to make it less sensitive?

 

[ovrszd]

Wife went to use snowblower and she called me and said tractor beeps and keeps shutting off, took abit but finnally figured out it's the seat switch, she has to move seat around to get weight in right spot in order for it to work but even turning around takes weight off turning tractor off, any ideas to make it less sensitive?

Bypass it.

 

[Ridge]

I thought about putting a switch that could bypass it but wife doesn't like that idea but if I can't find a solution i might

 

[ovrszd]

I'm not a fan of seat switches. Maybe if you had kids running it? But then, they would suffer with the problem of it periodically shutting off too.

 

[shooterdon]

Wife went to use snowblower and she called me and said tractor beeps and keeps shutting off, took abit but finnally figured out it's the seat switch, she has to move seat around to get weight in right spot in order for it to work but even turning around takes weight off turning tractor off, any ideas to make it less sensitive?

40-50 lbs of lead is not very large. Make up two (one will be hard to lift) "cushions" with lead birdshot sown in and a soft layer of foam on the top cushion. Easy to take on and off and will raise the seat less than an inch. One may be enough...try and adjust if needed.

Depending on your seat design, adding lead ingots to the edge would work too and do not change ergonomics. BTW, I use lead as a counter weight on my ballast box.

 

[Avenger]

Bypassing the seat switch was one of the very first things I did on my tractor. I am 5'9" 230lbs, and I still set it off when turning around in my seat, or bouncing around in rough terrain. That switch lasted about 10hrs!