Stupid tractor tricks - part 27

[frank_f15]

glueguy: my 2400 does not have folding ropes and it fits under doorMOST times. just to play it safe i tied a big sign to top of door so when u open door , the sign hangs down so it hits u in the face , so u see it for sure, i have a bunge cord attached to beam and just hook it to door edge to hold it fully in up position. makes one hell of a conversation piece/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[frank_f15]

might as well tell u all about my stupid tractor trick/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif when i first got b2400 was not used to hydo, had been using an old ford 2n. on the ford the clutch is on the left and the brake on the right. so any how was using the kubota to move some dirt and fill in some low spots RIGHT NEXT TO THE house.was dumping the dirt and said to myself that is close enough, better step on the brake(see it comming ?)being used to brake on the right i just mashed down on hydo. i spent the next day replacing vinyl siding on that part of house. you can all stop laughing now./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

I'm not going to quit laughing that quick, Frank./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I've known of folks (like my brother-in-law) who've let a wet foot slip off the clutch on an old 8N and, in my brother-in-law's case, poked his brush hog got right through the back wall of his barn, but I haven't heard of anyone using the hydro pedal for a brake./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Of course, a time or two when I've been jockeying back and forth with the forward/reverse pedals, I've stepped on the wrong one./w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif That sure does startle you, but so far it's never been in a place that caused any damage./w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

Bird

 

[GlueGuy]

Ouch!!!! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif I hate it when that happens. It took me a while before my "hydro foot" was always doing the right thing. When I mow up close to the house (and I mean real close), I get real nervous that I'm about to do the "wrong thing", and end up sorry for it...

The GlueGuy

 

[BrentB]

Having grown up on a farm with "clutch on the left, and brakes on the right", I've had several mental lapses with my hystat 4200. It can be a dangerouse mistake, because it
always occurs when I'm inching up close to something. The
good thing is that I wind up hitting the brakes with my left foot- thinking its the clutch, while hitting the hystat pedal- thinking its the brake, and it tends to stop it.

 

[b8200hst4wd]

My B8200 does not have rops We bought it from the 1st owner he lived in a devlopment do you think he took the rops off to clear his door?

Alex (B8200/HST/4WD/FEL/MidM/Tiller

 

[frank_f15]

BIRD; figured u would be the one still laughing.kinda funny now but not so when it happened, worst part was my bride(38 years) was out there with 2 of her friends watching me put the orange beast though its paces.as soon as they realized i was not going to tear down the house they had a tough time stiffing their chuckles. very careful now.

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>If I religously BACK my tractor in</font color=blue>

Thanks for the reminder, David. Hey, GlueGuy -- even with the enlarged opening, my ROPS only clears the door if I back in. Has to do with the fact that the ROPS is behind the rear axle. My shop is on a concrete slab, with a dirt "driveway" leading up to the door. I had to scrape the approach so it was an inch or two lower than the slab, so that as I back in, the ROPS stays low until the wheels hit the slab. At that point the ROPS has cleared the door, so when the wheels climb onto the concrete, the ROPS is already inside.

Not cutting it too close, am I? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[Mike_S]

Yes--it originally had a ROPS on it as did my trusty old B8200, but according to several dealers (Kubota and Deere), it is not at all unusual for people to either remove them or just cut them off so they can get them in their garages. Mike S.

 

[SimS]

Frank;
Great minds think a like! It's kinda hard ignoring a sign when it brushes your face! So far so good.

Sim

 

[Bird]

This thread reminds me of when we lived in town with a two car garage and the other side of the front wall of the garage was my bedroom. Since I didn't trust my wife and daughters to get the cars in the right place, I got two tennis balls, punched holes through them, tied on heavy monofilament fishing line of just the right length and attached the other ends of the lines to the ceiling in the garage so that when they drove into the garage, if they stopped when the tennis ball touched the lower left corner of the windshield (right on the safety inspection sticker), the car was the right distance into the garage and even spaced correctly right and left. In fact, it was even handy for the old man./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird

 

[SimS]

Whoops forgot the attachment!

 

[SimS]

~!@#$! Cable modem Let's try this!!!

 

[Bird]

Hey, it worked that time; guess you just weren't holding your mouth right before./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Looks like a good idea to me.

Bird

 

[Von]

Well, You can't miss that!!

 

[krpig]

well, i might as well fess up to my best stupid tractor trick (hoping i never top this one).about 3 years ago, using a b21 to fill and level an area about 7 feet wide x 60 ft long between a building and a crick, in order to get an excavator in to dig. not being used to the hst, started down the crick bank, went for the brake, and lo and behold, someone had installed the front hydro pedal there!!! i guess you can see this coming. it seems like it takes a very long time for a tractor to fall over on its side! if it weren't fro ROPS, seat belt, and the grace of God, that could have been real ugly. the wrecker operator i called out told me we would have to drag the tractor upside down in the creek 100 yards to get it out. we figured out a way to right it w/out doing that! that experience made me just a little bit gun-shy of hst for a while.

thanks,
kevin

GO SOONERS!!!

 

[frank_f15]

sim: now that is really a BIG SIGN. bet it works hey?

 

[GlueGuy]

I think even I would notice that! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Just for hee hee's, when I was putting Lucy away tonight, my sweetie was standing by as I drove toward the "hangar". I hadn't put the ROPS down yet, but was aware of the fact (bad memory is still fresh /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif). She pointed to the ROPS over my head and smiled. Ahhh, another disaster averted. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The GlueGuy

 

[GlueGuy]

Harv,

I can't quite picture that. Seems to me, that the slab would have to be _lower_ than the approach? Maybe I'm not picturing this correctly, but if the approach is lower than the slab, and you are backing in, that the ROPS would be leaning forward (away from the door)?

Hmm. Where's the edge of the slab relative to the door?

The GlueGuy

 

[Harv]

GlueGuy -

My description probably wasn't very clear, but my crude sketch below might help clarify. I actually made this sketch before I had a tractor. Just working off of measurements then, but it wound up being very close to my eventual reality. Instead of adding the concrete step, as illustrated, I was able to notch the door opening at the top, so the difference between dirt and slab only needed to be about an inch.

Here are the before and after pictures of the door opening. I only notched out the trim and not the header, so there was no structural loss.

Again -- the reason this works is because the top of the ROPS is significantly behind the rear axle, so it passes through the doorway before the tires climb up onto the slab.