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If you are using one in cold temperatures a gloved or mitten covered hand will grip the spinner more securely than the palm of a glove or mitten on an open station tractor. I operated a forklift (Hyster 225) at a lumber mill for about 5 years and palmed the steering wheel a lot. I had a ground...

With hydrostatic steering and hydrostatic transmissions there is really nothing that demands having a steering wheel at all. It is only tradition and probably a few dollars in added cost that keeps it there. I would be perfectly fine with a new tractor with full joystick controls.

If I had a Tractor Supply anywhere nearby that would have been the way to go. My nearest one is either 200 miles west or 200 miles east. Or there is this at $13...

I'd set two on either side of the top of the wheel, sort of like the rear pistol sight. 😃

Yeah, it's about $25 but I like the no exposed metal. With my old dry thin skin all I have to do is look at a sharp edge or exposed metal and I start bleeding.

We are talking tractors and loaders, not cars and pickups. Nobody is suggesting a wheel spinner for highway use.

So who's inspecting?

The higher quality spinners don't have any exposed metal

In a car or pickup it would look strange these days, but is perfectly acceptable on a piece of equipment, especially if one hand is operating the loader joystick.

Those attributes apply only to old manual steering vehicles, and maybe some power assist steering but not to hydraulic steering. Even my old Ford 1715, which is approaching 30 years, has hydraulic steering, there is no danger of steering wheel kick back.

I remember my dad had one that would sort of fold out of the way so that it didn't sick up much above the plane of the steering wheel it was either on his 50 dodge or his 37 Oldsmobile. Most of the wheel loaders at work had spinners, even though we didn't have them in the dump trucks using one...