Seat switch bypass

[Citydude]

Humm, I've never had an issue with the safety switch. The only way I can trigger it is when I unbuckle my seatbelt and stand up. I operate on some pretty steep terrain, constantly shifting my weight around while doing so and it has never triggered a shut down. And I'm a "city dude"

 

[civilian]

Humm, I've never had an issue with the safety switch. The only way I can trigger it is when I unbuckle my seatbelt and stand up. I operate on some pretty steep terrain, constantly shifting my weight around while doing so and it has never triggered a shut down. And I'm a "city dude"

But you wear your seatbelt which helps you stay in the seat properly.

 

[Citydude]

You caught the drift....

 

[4570Man]

Not one of those cases made a good case for seat safety switches. How about you don't try to start a tractor standing on the ground. Ok I admit, I have done it. There are other far less annoying safeties to prevent that anyway. Modern tractors have a safety requiring the tractor to be in neutral and the clutch be pushed in to start. I disabled the seat safety, but those safeties are still operational. How could a roll over be prevented by a seat safety? Posting those served no purpose.

 

[Citydude]

Maybe if we look at what the switch can save, say with a tip over, it will shut the engine off possibly saving it.

 

[Oldpath05]

Safety is good, but freedom of choice is priceless! That safety seat down switch is to much, at times I think it makes things more unsafe when come's to pto winching, on off on off on off. I'm to accustom of starting my tractor on the ground or garage floor now that I cant change, it brings out the common sense in me, but the neutral gear safety switch is gonna stay hooked on my L3400.

 

[Oldpath05]

Maybe if we look at what the switch can save, say with a tip over, it will shut the engine off possibly saving it.

The key switch will do the same thing as that the seat switch will do. I recommend an auto air shut off switch for when the tractor tips over.

 

[PhysAssist]

Humm, I've never had an issue with the safety switch. The only way I can trigger it is when I unbuckle my seatbelt and stand up. I operate on some pretty steep terrain, constantly shifting my weight around while doing so and it has never triggered a shut down. And I'm a "city dude"

Ironically, in regard to my previous posting, we HAVE had issues with the tractor shutting itself off when we are operating it on even mild side slopes.

We have especially had problems with unplanned shut downs while getting off of it (especially if it is sitting on a slide side tilt), but I have been wondering if there is a loose component involved, because it then becomes very difficult to restart, to point that my SWMBO has on occasion had to leave it out (even in the rain-OMG!! the inhumanity) until I could come home and run through several iterations of restarting it.

Unfortunately, it is not at all clear why it eventually starts, when it does.

This seems/feels like either a loose connection or a faulty switch to me.