Finished product. Visibility isn't really a problem, so I chose the main color to match the bulk of the tractor.
Full tractor view (at our pond):
Other add-ons:
The canopy from CoverMyTractor.com
Work lights from Tractor Supply
Expanded metal backing from Wheeler Metals
The latter is...
One of the reasons I signed up for an account on these forums was to ask how to do something; but I went ahead and did it before I ever got around to asking the question!
John Deere has some ergonomic issues (such as no seatbelt extenders for us heftier farmers, but that's a different issue)...
Do you ever have (perhaps well intentioned?) friends or acquaintances bash rural living -- to you or in front of you?
I've had co-workers who could just not understand why I would live in the country, at the same time I could not (for the life of me) understand why that same person would want...
Friends know me by the nickname Woods, but that was already taken here in these forums.
I'm a hay farmer on a small farm in the Ozarks. We do everything with a John Deere compact utility tractor that is just enough to meet the power requirements of the attachments and a tiny bit more.
How we...