What have you done to your Branson today?

[ericm979]

I see them sometimes following tractors plowing. Plowing turns up things the egrets eat. They might have been hoping for the same from your mower.

BTW your field there looks nicer than my lawn and way nicer than our fields. Those are brown this time of year.

 

[ptsg]

I'll leave this here since I don't think it's worth it's own thread.

Looks like we're finally getting the Branson loaders available on this side of the pond. Actually, self leveling loaders. Look very nice and with a compact leveling linkage.

The main con I see, at least for my country, is that it's only available for tractors with rear mounted ROPS. We mainly use mid mounted ROPS because it folds much lower than the rear ROPS and sneaks under trees better.

The tractor on these pictures was still getting ready for delivery, so it was missing the ROPS.

 

[Cougsfan]

I wonder why a mid ROPS would interfere with a self leveling bucket. They seem unrelated. Or is it the loader that interferes? Would a cab interfere also? I'd love to have a self leveling bucket.

 

[ptsg]

I wonder why a mid ROPS would interfere with a self leveling bucket. They seem unrelated. Or is it the loader that interferes? Would a cab interfere also? I'd love to have a self leveling bucket.

The Mid ROPS affect the way the loader is mounted on the tractor because it bolts to the exact same place as the loader mounts would.

The aftermarket loader fitted to the mid ROPS tractors, have the mounts welded into the ROPS frame. Pretty much similar to what I did. Branson had that in account and built the base of the ROPS really sturdy and ready to take the loader stresses.

 

[LouNY]

Well it wasn't just today but the last week to 10 days has been fabing up some brackets to install in the cab of the 8050.
What pushed it was a mower I acquired has 5 valve controls that needed to be mounted in order to use it.
I couldn't see going to all the trouble of pulling the radio mount out of the roof and the center pillar just for one bracket so I tried to plan ahead and have mountings available for anything I need in the future also.

 

[K5lwq]

Looks great Lou! Have you plumbed the valve yet? Look forward to seeing how you fit everything.

 

[LouNY]

And the actual seat time was about 9 hours in the last two days triming low hanging limbs and brush along the road that was interfering with seeing if any traffic was coming and then triming back brush and wild rose bushes and weeds on my driveway.

It only has a 3 feet flail head but it can bounce the tractor around some.
It did a good job, I should have taken some pictures when I was using it, Oh well next time.

 

[LouNY]

Looks great Lou! Have you plumbed the valve yet? Look forward to seeing how you fit everything.

The actual valves are on the mower the handles in the cab are cable operators to control the actual valves.

 

[Branson Bob]

"Five Valve Lou"

 

[Branson Bob]

Good work Lou. Looks great!