Skid plate

[IslandTractor]

Yeah, I get what will need to be done. I don't have welding equip any more.

I haven't followed this closely but if you have the plate marked exactly to fit your machine, I can weld it for you for the cost of return postage. Of course you could also go grab a cheap welder from HF or find a buddy to help. If you are making the same one Murph did it is about five minutes of welding. Key is to mock it up and make sure the angle is correct. Murph's machine was different than the one we took the pattern from.

 

[mrutkaus]

I admire all this fabrication, but I can't do it!

But I was pleased how the Woods BH80 backhoe mount extends up to the front of the tractor and provides a modest amount of protection from certain directions to lots of things including the filter area.

Mike

 

[Coyote machine]

I haven't followed this closely but if you have the plate marked exactly to fit your machine, I can weld it for you for the cost of return postage. Of course you could also go grab a cheap welder from HF or find a buddy to help. If you are making the same one Murph did it is about five minutes of welding. Key is to mock it up and make sure the angle is correct. Murph's machine was different than the one we took the pattern from.

IT, thanks for the offer! I will get it done locally when I have time to fit it and figure out where the bracket needs to go.

 

[kiotiken]

I'd have never figured you and Murph had welding deficiencies I'm in now way an expert and it's overwhelming how much there is to learn to be a serious welder, but buying a MIG welder and gluing a couple pieces of mild steel together is simple and rewarding. I took a welding course at the local college, but at the time, I didn't even know what I signed up for and it was an oxy acetylene course, but it was still very useful. I learned to MIG weld by watching a video series, something you can probably get for free on youtube now.

 

[Coyote machine]

I'd have never figured you and Murph had welding deficiencies I'm in now way an expert and it's overwhelming how much there is to learn to be a serious welder, but buying a MIG welder and gluing a couple pieces of mild steel together is simple and rewarding. I took a welding course at the local college, but at the time, I didn't even know what I signed up for and it was an oxy acetylene course, but it was still very useful. I learned to MIG weld by watching a video series, something you can probably get for free on youtube now.

No deficiencies here, can't speak for Murph, (He He ), I just don't have any welding tools nor a desire to go and buy them again after having sold my shop equip in 1987.
I have a guy just down the road who does any welding I need done, so when I need stuff done I turn it over to him.
Would take a course, but then I'd feel like buying stuff which I don't have room for. (Self-taught oxy-acetelene use, mostly for cutting.....)

 

[Illini22]

Has anyone else made anymore skid plates? I hope I never need them but it would be money well spent.

 

[Coyote machine]

The skid plates were made for the DK series tractors. Handful of prototypes.....

 

[kco]

This link

http://payeur.com/en/tracteur/série-dk/

is to a Quebec company that produces Kioti modifications for logging.

 

[IslandTractor]

This link

http://payeur.com/en/tracteur/s%c3%a9rie-dk/

is to a Quebec company that produces Kioti modifications for logging.

Good way to add ballast down low too.

 

[Illini22]

Ct, I have a dk40 now. Thanks for the link. I will regret not doing this.

 

[murphy1244]

Ct, I have a dk40 now. Thanks for the link. I will regret not doing this.

I ripped of my Exhaust tube the first day!

 

[CJONE]

I ripped of my Exhaust tube the first day!

Ouch! I though it was bad with my antenna! I think I may finally get to building my skid plates and canopy guard after 400 hours Don't want to rush into anything! CJ

 

[murphy1244]

Ouch! I though it was bad with my antenna! I think I may finally get to building my skid plates and canopy guard after 400 hours Don't want to rush into anything! CJ

No you don't, Practice practice practice they say

 

[Byddyro]

The posts here seem to be about skid plates for DK models. Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas for a skid plate for the CK30 or other CK models?

 

[IslandTractor]

The posts here seem to be about skid plates for DK models. Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas for a skid plate for the CK30 or other CK models?

What are your intended uses and concerns that make you interested in adding a skid plate to a CK30? I don't recall anyone having issues or using that tractor in a logging business. Skid plates are not needed for routine tractor work. If you work in the woods with lots of stumps around then perhaps it would be a good idea.

 

[RedRocker]

I thought I had posted a bunch of pictures of my armor in the gallery, but I can't
find the gallery anymore.

Photobucket shut down their linking unless you pay $400 bucks a year, but you probably already know that.

 

[Byddyro]

What are your intended uses and concerns that make you interested in adding a skid plate to a CK30? I don't recall anyone having issues or using that tractor in a logging business. Skid plates are not needed for routine tractor work. If you work in the woods with lots of stumps around then perhaps it would be a good idea.

Last fall the hydraulic filter was punctured while cutting some trails with the bush hog in some grown over brush in a cut over, and I suspect it may have been caused by a broken tree branch, Around 3 weeks ago the hydraulic filter was damaged again while bush hogging some roads I suspect by either a rock or piece of gravel being hit by the bush hog blade and being launched into the filter puncturing it. There are also stumps in the cut over areas being bush hogged, and I think their is a great chance of future damage with no skid plate.

 

[neopheous]

What are your intended uses and concerns that make you interested in adding a skid plate to a CK30? I don't recall anyone having issues or using that tractor in a logging business. Skid plates are not needed for routine tractor work. If you work in the woods with lots of stumps around then perhaps it would be a good idea.

Most of the property in which I purchased my tractor for is wooded, and I would definitely be interested in skid plates for my CK4010. I'm having dozer work done, but I still have a lot of trails that I need to create and trees to remove, etc. Would love for someone to have these already made up to bolt on, as I don't weld, or do metal fabrication.

 

[IslandTractor]

Not sure what happened to my earlier reply but here is the jist: There are no standard protective plates. It's all one off custom. The good news is that an effective protective plate can be fabricated from 10 gauge or 1/4" plate with just a few tools. Crawl under the tractor to find any predrilled holes or empty tapped threaded holes on the tranny or engine block. Look to see what other hard points you might utilize to secure a plate that covers vulnerable filters, control rods or electric lines. Get some cardboard and fashion a template. Get some plate and use a press and cutting tool or just have a local metal shop do the bending and cutting for you. Attach to tractor. You can avoid welding with tabs and bolts. If you don't have access to a press brake avoid need to bend 1/4" by making 2-3 "spooning" plates out of 16 gauge and bolt them together or get creative with plate, angle iron and bolts. Lots of fairly simple if inelegant ways to provide added protection.

 

[VroomVroom]