Use a Steeing Wheel Spinner ?

TOMLESCOEQUIP · Nov 18, 2003

Tractor supply company........ tsc ...........spinner 3.99 (black decent quality) up to 11.99......(aluminum in tractor colors).............TOM

TonyC · Nov 18, 2003

It always amazing to see the variety of comments on the same simple item. Everyone has their own preferences I guess! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I used to use one on my tractors without power steering. They are the most "dangerous" there but I think they are also the most helpful. I wouldn't want to have been without one. Now, as Bird mentioned, with power steering I see no need. I mow at high speed and steer with my index finger. I can whip that tractor anywhere I want with that single digit. A know would just get in the way and whack my knuckles!

BillyP · Nov 18, 2003

My JD dealer gave me one and I had intentions of using it. I noticed that if I put it say at 2 o'clock, it wouldn't stay at 2 o'clock. The steering wheel doesn't come back to the same position, after making a few turns.

I guess it wouldn't really matter, except having to look for it, instead of knowing where it would be.

bigpete · Nov 18, 2003

The default placement on my tractor when driving straight ahead is 7:00 to 9:00, a comfortable place for my left hand. My left hand is on the steering ball almost 100% of the time. I don't even think about it any more. My right hand is working throttle, joystick, and 3-point controls. The steering wheels are typically only 16", or so, in diameter on our newer machines so there's no real hunting for it even if you have stopped with the front wheels awander.

cbh · Nov 18, 2003

For what it's worth, the Kubota B7500 (and probably the B2410) has power steering but the wheel returns to the same position each time, kinda nice when using a spinner. I don't see this too often with newer tractors.

ronjhall · Nov 19, 2003

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Gatorboy · Nov 19, 2003

( mow at high speed and steer with my index finger. I can whip that tractor anywhere I want with that single digit. )

I believe most of you are mowing with a 5'-6' mower on a 3-pt hitch attachment. Perhaps if you were mowing with my 15' flexwing pull-behind and doing alot of backing up for trim work, you'd have a different opinion on the spinner-knob. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Dave___in___CT · Nov 19, 2003

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Rimmer · Nov 19, 2003

I remember that my father had one on the old 8N for a while. He farmed 20 acres with it, including mowing, plowing, disking, planting, and cultivating. Mowing and planting were done with modified horse-drawn equipment, with me riding in the seat to work the pedals and levers. I don't recall how long he used the spinner, but it disappeared somewhere along the way. I thought it was rather scandelous, since all of the kids my age who had brothers old enough to drive called them "necker's knobs": they allowed you to drive with only one hand...

The 8N outlasted my father, although the spinner has been long gone. I still have it (and the 20 acres), but the thing burns so much oil that I can hardly stand to use it (hope to overhaul it some day). Since the cropland is now farmed by a fellow who works about 2000 acres in the area, I bought a BX23 to handle all the remaining digging, mowing, grading, tilling, and spraying tasks. I can steer the '23 with one finger, so no need for a spinner on it.

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bigpete · Nov 19, 2003

Good thing it's on sale for $85 ! 

Yikes /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I'd need a $75 rebate for that to work on my tractor!

bigpete · Nov 19, 2003

(...mow at high speed and steer with my index finger. I can whip that tractor anywhere I want with that single digit. )

I believe most of you are mowing with a 5'-6' mower on a 3-pt hitch attachment. 

I think that's probably it. I cut with a 62C MMM and that's why the spinner is so valuable. Anything off the rea of the tractor would make the spinner unnecessary.

GaryM · Nov 19, 2003

( My JD dealer gave me one and I had intentions of using it. I noticed that if I put it say at 2 o'clock, it wouldn't stay at 2 o'clock. The steering wheel doesn't come back to the same position, after making a few turns.
)

That's because on some of the JD's, like my 4100, there is no mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the actual wheels. It's all hydraulic. Crank on the wheel with the engine off and see what happens.

I noticed that the wheel did not return to the same position for straight ahead and figured it out.

Soundguy · Nov 19, 2003

It must have been due to the way the ps was installed /re-fit.... as the older fords used a worm gear / recirculating ball/nut from 48 and up..at least into the 60's I believe.. and pressure applied at the tires can't back up more than a bit of gear backlash from the sector arms till they bottom out on the worm gear /ball-nut assembly on the steering shaft..to the steering wheel. However.. the older 9n and 2n, 1939-1947 had a system that would transmit power up the sector arms to the steering column..

I have one on all my tractors.. saves mucho time..

Soundguy

bigpete · Nov 19, 2003

I don't think mine is ever in the exact same place but it's always there for my left hand as I mentioned ( I said 7:00-9:00 but I guess it could be 6:00-11:00). I've never found myself reaching across the wheel, or even at 12:00, to track straight ahead. Hmmmm. Something else for me to ponder laying awake at night. I will never remember to pay attention when I'm on the machine. Kinda' like asking yourself whether you cross your shoelace bows right over left, or left over right /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

MossRoad · Nov 19, 2003

That's because on some of the JD's, like my 4100, there is no mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the actual wheels. It's all hydraulic. Crank on the wheel with the engine off and see what happens. 

My late 70's IH2500B has hydraulic steering. The wheel never comes back to the same place twice /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

pajoube · Nov 24, 2003

If you were to ask me what attachment I felt was the most important, it would be the spinner knob. One hand on the spinner and the other on the joy stick.
PJ

YanmarFever · Dec 30, 2003

the real name of these knobs is (NECKER KNOBS)
you can put your arm around your gal in the 1950 s
and drive without power sterring while kissing her!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

JDgreen227 · Dec 30, 2003

My Dad had one of those spinners in his '49 Ford and he liked to brag to me about shifting gears with his knee. I never knew what he was talking about until I got my first wheels and went on my first date.

PineRidge · Dec 30, 2003

the real name of these knobs is (NECKER KNOBS)
you can put your arm around your gal in the 1950 s
and drive without power sterring while kissing her!!


Ernie I picked a steering wheel spinner up at my New Holland dealer just today when I was picking up filters for my TC-40D. When I threw it up on the counter the parts man there said, "Necker Knob" so evidentially you guys must be about the same age? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I had no idea what he meant and wasn't going to ask. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Course I grew up with power steering too...