Wha Extras Do You Wish Your Tractor Had?

[CoachEarl]

Toolbox
Cup holder
Roof
Grapple
Tiller

 

[joeu235]

an internet connection, so I can update my SnapChat, Instagram, Facebook, & MySpace accounts while i'm cutting hay.

JD 4020 has a real tool box, i agree that the modern tractors should have at least a place to put a large and small crescent wrench, slip joint pliers, and a couple screw drivers.

 

[LouNY]

It's about like the song older whiskey, younger women, faster horses and more money;;
more hydraulics, more horsepower, better fuel economy and less money!!!!!!:drink:

 

[rScotty]

I would like to see the tractors with cabs have an intermittent windshield wiper feature. All of our vehicles have this and its hard to believe when the manufacturers ask nearly ten grand for their cabs that they couldn't install a upgraded wiper switch that lets us adjust to just to the occasional wipe. It would be nice when we are getting just a very light mist. I would also like to see a LED headlight/work light upgrade option from the factory. I have converted all of the halogen over to LEDs (including headlights) but a factory option would be nice. John deere offers it on their 5000 series tractors as an option so why not do it on the 3000 and 4000 tractors with factory cabs. Golly, I will bet they could actually make a profit offering it. I actually got the kit that Deere sells for the 5000 tractors and installed on my 4066r. The lights are made my JWspeaker. The difference in light output is amazing. I had to make some new brackets but the lights look like they were installed at the factory.

It is interesting to me how some people prefer one type of light and some prefer another. It seems to be individual preference - maybe different eyes work differently. Anyway, since preference is the case, it makes sense that manufacturers would offer all types.

For my part, I rarely if ever use lights to see by on a moving tractor. I do use the warning flashers.
Having work lights might be useful as a sort of portable light stand to fix something broken down in a field at night. For that I'd probably prefer the yellower type of incandescent light over the blue light of LEDs.

 

[houstonscott]

Wish my canopy had a fan...

 

[dnw64]

It is interesting to me how some people prefer one type of light and some prefer another. It seems to be individual preference - maybe different eyes work differently. Anyway, since preference is the case, it makes sense that manufacturers would offer all types.

For my part, I rarely if ever use lights to see by on a moving tractor.

One of my main work patterns is snowblowing my driveway. Probably at least half the time it is done at night. Therefore I have a 36W LED Light Bar on my tractor. I could get by with quite a bit less, but I prefer to pretend it's Day Time.

...I'd probably prefer the yellower type of incandescent light over the blue light of LEDs.

Early/cheap LEDs have a poor reputation, but they can be any color you want. From warmer than incandescent to so "cool" you can't see them with normal eyesight.

 

[FTG-05]

Never gets old!!!

 

[valdez54]

As for additional storage for things like cell phones, buy a cheap set of atv accessory bags... the fender bag fits on my JD110 TLB on the right front "dash" with zip tires and has worked perfectly for 4 water bottles, folding hand saw, cell phone, etc. for about 4 years now. I have another bag zip-tied to the right rear rops and that holds 4 water bottles. A piece of PVC pipe hose-clamped to the left rear rops holds a set of loppers. I carry a topsoil rake and long handle pointed shovel in two pvc pipes held across the loader arms with bungy cords. Another bungy is zip tied to those two pipes and each end grabs both the rake and the shovel so they don't slide out while travelling. (drill a hole in the back of the shovel blade for the bungy cord hook. I carry a 20' 3/8" chain in a battery box sitting on the backhoe floor below the seat position. I have 3 grab hooks welded to the top of the loader bucket and two on the backhoe bucket. On the brush hog I have two
large milk crates bolted to the deck for other needed tools such as a chainsaw, gas, etc... That about it... For the 110 I would like to have had a cruise control option as open field work is hard on you foot with the hydrostatic trans.. probably a couple of dollars cost on a computer board would all it would have taken...