Karl2
Gold Member
Karl:
My headlight/worklight switch has four positions: off, flashers only, headlights with flashers, and headlights/worklights only.
I have the same switch. I don't know if it snows a lot where you are but up here it does and during a storm or heavy snowfall it's very difficult for approaching drivers to gauge the distance and type of vehicle unless you have either the flashers on or a beacon/strobe rolling. Those lights warn other drivers that the vehicle is either slow moving or likely to be maneuvering on the road.
Reflectors are not highly visible from a safe distance especially in snowy conditions, that's why using flashers and/or beacon is mandatory here. JD are the only tractors I know of where flashers go off when using work lights. The obvious solution to this is to divert work lights wiring to a separate switch, this way you can have both the flashers and work lights operating at the same time and you can still turn off the flashers if so desired by turning the main switch to the (former) work lights position.
Maybe JD set it up this way to save a few bucks on a separate switch but doing this on a $40,000 tractor is a little miserly and somewhat self-defeating considering that the JD cab is one of the few equipped with the kind of flashers that could easily make the use of a beacon unnecessary.