B7610 seat is giving me a bad back.

[BoneheadNW]

dannydan-

I want to thank you for bringing back some childhood memories and making me laugh so hard I cried. Riding cowboy and riding the range, that is beautiful! I haven't heard that in years.

By the way, I see your occupation is dork. Is that anything like a bonehead?

Bonehead

 

[B2400]

Hello 53gravely! You might want to fill in the rest of your Bio so members in your area can help you with specifics. I purchased a suspension seat from Tractor Supply Co. for my B7100 when the original became junk. For $100, it was one of the best investments I made. I had to redrill two holes in the original mounting bracket but other than that it bolted right up. I'd love to put one on my B2400 but the fender cross support in the rear wouldn't allow me to put the seat back far enough(6'3"@250lbs /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif)

 

[53gravely]

Dannydan- ridin' Cowboy was fine before barbed wire--ouch!
Factory springs are wrapped to a finished flat surface. If I cut them the points would wear thru the seat underside pretty quickly then I'd have to see the guy in the kilt.
Chevyorange's solution with the washers is a good one but the seat still has that slope. I want pure comfort dagnabbit.
2400 is riding in the lap of luxury...but not on the new tractor. There's a lot that could be done if it weren't for the operator presence system--thought of disconnecting but I'm the kind of schmuck that inspired its design.

 

[Haneyrm]

I went home last night and shimmed the front of my seat up with some washers. It still felt like it was heading down hill so I also shimmed up the slider mechanism. Made a huge improvement in the comfort of the seat. Highly recommended and took about 5 minutes to complete.

Mike

 

[jackl]

This has to be one of the best threads I've seen in a while. I have a 7510 and I thought I was the only one with this problem. I'll be watching carefully for solutions to this one. Also, does anyone occasionally turn on the headlights with their knee?

 

[wushaw]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( This has to be one of the best threads I've seen in a while. I have a 7510 and I thought I was the only one with this problem. I'll be watching carefully for solutions to this one. Also, does anyone occasionally turn on the headlights with their knee? )</font>

Not anymore with the change to the L2800. I was always turning the headlights on with my knee on my old B7500.
As far as seat comfort the L2800 is not much better than The B7500 I had.

 

[53gravely]

I was on the phone with Kubota service. Nice fella. Recommended I look into OEM (he seemed to think Michigan Seat supplied the original.). I spoke with MSC (who only sells to distribution) --another nice fella . He had me look at thier site:
http://www.mi-seat.com/index.html
...then referred me to Northern Tool. There's a full suspension forklift stat for $300 that looks like a sweet seat but that dang operator's presence system thing.....
I may try hanyrm's shimming solution--under the tracks.

 

[botalvr]

Oh, yep. I think that dorkiness and boneheadedness run hand in hand.
Or is that a dork in the hand is worth - oops, almost got myself on that one there....
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[botalvr]

Yep, that there wire can be a bit painful. One more idea I had is those rubber type things I see inside of truck springs, and on some 4 whell drive truck shows on TV.
Of course they would not be inflated (unless you wanna get fancy), but then they wouldn't cost $300 either.
I would think that they could replace the springs altogether and be pretty comfortable while running in that kilt.
I would watch your top speed in the kilt, don't wanna be listed as a sex offender for open kilting!
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[luvbug]

53 gravely, Sorry to hear about your "marvin" problems, been their to. My wife solved the problems for us by going to Wal*mart and bought a 3/4 inch outdoor fabric seat cushion and some cotton fabric and made a seat cover for the tractor and backhoe seats for about $16.00 and no more "marvins" no matter how hot it is out or how long we stay in the seat. The extra padding also helped on the feeling of being pushed forward.