That dang parking brake!

[k0ua]

I have left the brake on several times in the past with gear tractors , now I have finally gotten use to taping the brakes every time I start off , it is automatic for me to do that now .

I used to leave it on quite a bit with the last tractor, but I don't seem to forget any more with this one. I always stomp the brake pedal before I take off even if is not set. Of course that big red brake lamp on the dash could help too.

 

[4570Man]

I notice if the brake is on. It really struggles to move and I can hear it straining. I usually don't set the parking brake. One night I pulled the tractor up to the garage to plug up the block heater and left it on a hill. Overnight the tractor slowly rolled down the hill and tore the end off my second favorite yellow jacket cord.

 

[Oldpath05]

After 8 years I still cant seam to remember the brakes are set, probably because when I get wood out, I try not to set them, usually with the bucket on the ground and the winch down, that will hold the tractor, but sometime on a bank I want to set the brakes too, and that's where I forget there on, for the next fifty feet, wondering why this blanking tractor is going so hard, then it dawns on me.

I always thought if I only had some dash lights to remind me like those that Paul has on his dash, like to know how that's done, but I need them flashing, then I'll know I'll see them.

This could be a sign that I'm getting old, and the older I get the more I start thinking about the here-after, I walk into a room and wonder what I'm here-after.:dance1:

 

[Paul Thornton]

Oldpath, I bought the lights at Walmart, LEDs that plug into the cigarette lighter. I cut them apart, pulled the dash off, drilled two holes, siliconed the lights in and made a bracket to hold a momentary switch against the brake lever. I had to make the fine adjustment using electrical tape. I taped into a hot wire on the ignition switch.

 

[HEC]

This could be a sign that I'm getting old, and the older I get the more I start thinking about the here-after, I walk into a room and wonder what I'm here-after.:dance1:[/QUOTE]

That's two of us , go down cellar for 2 things come back up with one , if I remember what one was that is .

 

[Oldpath05]

Oldpath, I bought the lights at Walmart, LEDs that plug into the cigarette lighter. I cut them apart, pulled the dash off, drilled two holes, siliconed the lights in and made a bracket to hold a momentary switch against the brake lever. I had to make the fine adjustment using electrical tape. I taped into a hot wire on the ignition switch.

Thanks for the info, I see you hooked up the switch to the brake release lever, that's what I had in mind, but what is a momentary switch and where did you find it or will any switch do, maybe I could take a light switch out the house and try that

 

[Oldpath05]

This could be a sign that I'm getting old, and the older I get the more I start thinking about the here-after, I walk into a room and wonder what I'm here-after.:dance1:

That's two of us , go down cellar for 2 things come back up with one , if I remember what one was that is .[/QUOTE]
Now you get to make two trips, I guess that's how we get are exercise, if someone want exercise.

 

[Paul Thornton]

Old path, the switch is only on when you press it, any auto parts store will have them. Make sure you find a wire that only has power when the key is on.

 

[tallyho8]

I used a door switch out of an old refrigerator. Most have 2 switches, the fan switch turns on when the button is pressed in and the light switch turns on when the button is let out so you use the one that best fits your set-up.

The older round switches are the best because it is easy to drill a round hole in a piece of metal to make a bracket to hold them where you want them.

 

[bfisherman11]

While using my tractor today I had a duh moment. I realized I have a brake light. I just see that now and all is good. Big red P glowing is all I need now to remind me. Ha, why didn't I see that before.

Bill