Tony M
New member
Gooday all
I'm located in South Australia and have a John Deere 3720 cab tractor. I've previously posted about my experiences with fitting skidsteer wheel spacers.
Up until now the tractor has mainly been a very expensive, but extremely comfortable, lawn mower.
I have had a few tentative attempts at doing some earth-moving with the 4 in 1 bucket I bought with it, but I seem to have a problem judging the location and attitude of the bucket and how far it is open and this severely limits the amount of use I get out of it. I seem to use the float setting a lot as I'm otherwise not sure how far off the ground the bucket is. I get very embarrassed fixing glitches with a shovel afterwards.
So I got to thinking a camera mounted somewhere above the bucket and a monitor in the cab might give me a good view of what's happening up front while it's happening - at least until I develop the necessary skills. Truck reversing camera kits seem to be cheap on ebay and should do the job?
However, before going down this path I thought I'd try to find if anyone else has tried this - but couldn't find anything relevant. So, I want to ask if this is because it's a bad idea or doesn't work or am I the only one who finds this so difficult?
Any hints or advice would be very welcome.
Cheers
Tony
I'm located in South Australia and have a John Deere 3720 cab tractor. I've previously posted about my experiences with fitting skidsteer wheel spacers.
Up until now the tractor has mainly been a very expensive, but extremely comfortable, lawn mower.
I have had a few tentative attempts at doing some earth-moving with the 4 in 1 bucket I bought with it, but I seem to have a problem judging the location and attitude of the bucket and how far it is open and this severely limits the amount of use I get out of it. I seem to use the float setting a lot as I'm otherwise not sure how far off the ground the bucket is. I get very embarrassed fixing glitches with a shovel afterwards.
So I got to thinking a camera mounted somewhere above the bucket and a monitor in the cab might give me a good view of what's happening up front while it's happening - at least until I develop the necessary skills. Truck reversing camera kits seem to be cheap on ebay and should do the job?
However, before going down this path I thought I'd try to find if anyone else has tried this - but couldn't find anything relevant. So, I want to ask if this is because it's a bad idea or doesn't work or am I the only one who finds this so difficult?
Any hints or advice would be very welcome.
Cheers
Tony