A helping hand.

[FELMOW2320]

Needed a little help holding a tire up to get the bottom bead of a large tire off the wheel.Tried stacking milk crates under it with some wooden blocks to get it high enough but it kept falling over.Decided to use the loader bucket.Problem solved.

 

[Thomas]

:thumbsup: There always a way if you got the will.

 

[RjCorazza]

It's amazing the different uses one can get out of a loader. Your post caught my eye because a few years ago I used my loader to bust the bead on my zero turn rear tires.

 

[TheMan419]

Isn't the loader bucket ALWAYS the answer?

 

[jbwilson]

Yes - great for pushing your tractor out of a bog and painting roof gutters for starters.

 

[FELMOW2320]

Here is another helping hand picture.A 3point cheery picker mounted to my home made QA forks.I used it to put 26ft pieces of steel roofing on top of carport.

 

[jbwilson]

Hydraulic power is amazing. I constantly think of all those labour saving devices that can be operated by tractor hydraulic power, but I'm just too lazy to make them.

 

[RandyT]

It's amazing the different uses one can get out of a loader. Your post caught my eye because a few years ago I used my loader to bust the bead on my zero turn rear tires.

I did the same yesterday, but I was breaking down an old trailer tire that was leaking around the bead on my wood hauling trailer.

 

[gwstang]

Yes - great for pushing your tractor out of a bog and painting roof gutters for starters.

Funny you should mention the painting. I work with a guy at work that was using his front end loader for something like that and....the kids freaking goat got up on the tractor seat and started fooling with the loader controller. He said the first he noticed was the bucket started tilting downward and he was about to take a nasty fall being dumped out of the bucket. It stopped just in time as he started yelling and someone came out of the house to rescue him. Goat got gone that week after eating/chewing up, his easy chair that he had on the porch. Goat was getting up on his wife's car too. :laughing:

 

[jbwilson]

Hmmm, I would swap that goat for a more manageable pet, such as a hamster or goldfish. But when you invest so much in a tractor, the imagination runs hot in terms of how it can be used in order to save you effort such as what the OP and other TBNers here have devised. But, no matter how hard I think, I still can't think of a way of using my tractor's hydraulics to iron my laundry.

 

[aczlan]

Hmmm, I would swap that goat for a more manageable pet, such as a hamster or goldfish. But when you invest so much in a tractor, the imagination runs hot in terms of how it can be used in order to save you effort such as what the OP and other TBNers here have devised. But, no matter how hard I think, I still can't think of a way of using my tractor's hydraulics to iron my laundry.

Run the exhaust or coolant through a heat exchanger and use the hydraulics to run a hydraulic clothes press?
Or do like in the cartoons and use a roller on a road?

Aaron Z

 

[jbwilson]

Aczlan - A stonking great idea! A tractor in a laundry should be everyone's aspiration - and attract a Government grant under the "Homeowners First Tractor in a Laundry Scheme". The actual operation mightn't work well on frills and lace, but I couldn't see that as a real problem for most tractor owners. Don't know about the roller idea with our coarse chip roads, but the dimpled look might catch on.