Benefits to lights on your tractor.....

[wolfpack2]

Double Post Gremlin is at it again.

 

[airbiscuit]

So, you have been getting lots of good ideas here. Perhaps the best way to look at this is to ask, "If I was a competitor, what would I do to make my product more desirable?". You might want to consider your base product and then a number of options. Alternatively, you might want to offer Value, Deluxe, and Premium offerings. I would think you could offer any number of neat factory installations that might include LED Work Lights, rear red marker lights, amber side marker lights, strobe beacon, etc. The idea of a fan sounds cooler than I would have thought (pun intended).

 

[2458n]

Here is a idea that is a good one. Amish are in my area of Ohio. Horse and buggies travel at night. The lights are battery powered and the LED low draw would be a selling point. Yellow strobe or flashing/blinking red lights. It is a shame when they are hit by a motor vehicle because some driver had no depth perception and drove over them at 55 mph.

 

[D7E]

agree, loader blocks lights, need the higher lights to see

unless you are loading bales in the dark then when the loader is raised the light is blocked from cab lights . I think cab and grille mounted are necessary for complete light .

 

[EddieWalker]

During the mowing season here in Texas, it's too hot to be out there during daylight hours in my open cab tractor, so I do most of my mowing at last light and into the evening. I've been out as late as midnight numerous times. I find it to be very relaxing and enjoyable. I see more animals then too. Most hogs at once was 30 of them. I mowed right through the middle of them!!! I've had coyotes follow me, hunting mice, or whatever it is that I'm kicking out. And it's the only time I see armadillos out in the open. My record is having four of them out at the same time.

I like lights that flood all around me, but I also like spot lights that light up a hundred yards in front of me too. My lights are mounted to the front of my grill guard. I've thought about a light bar on my ROPS that would fit under my canopy, but so far, it's just a thought.

Not sure if I would buy a canopy with lights as part of it. It would depend on the final cost and what I thought of the canopy. When I was looking around for canopies, I felt that most of them where too small. I wanted the biggest one possible to keep the sun off of me as much as possible.

My next tractor will have a cab.

 

[varmint]

I've been playing with the aiming on my lights, and have found that directing the 27W main lights out straight in front, with my smaller 18W floods mostly front but slightly sideways works pretty well. I feel like I have plenty of light, yet it's about an 8 amp draw, no problem. Even with the rears on, it's still about 12 amps... Seems like a lot of light for not much money. And, with last week's blizzard, I got a good chance to see if snow would be a problem sticking on the "cool" running lights. It wasn't. (photo isn't the final adjustment position, FWIW.)

 

[sixdogs]

Lights on the canopy make a lot of sense because it puts the light high and in front of the operator. Most people mount the light on the roll bar behind the operator where it casts a shadow on whatever it is you're trying to do. That doesn't work very well. On a canopy eliminates shadows so it's a good idea.

People also want to use lights a lot, probably just because they have them when the real use for lights is when you absolutely cannot get by without them. Maybe it's at night and lighted a barnyard situation. Maybe a water or electrical problem. Maybe driving down the road. In that type of a situation, you better have lights.

 

[George2615]

I agree with Ford850. More lights to see better at night and to be seen by others day or night. My tractor has front hood lights, front cab lights, rear work lights, rear cab lights, front and rear 24" wide LED lights, front and rear flashing strobes, front and rear 4 way flashers, rooftop LED strobe plus reflective tape on both sides and rear of tractor. When I'm on the road the tractor is lit up like a Christmas tree hoping it will be seen and not hit.

 

[airbiscuit]

I agree with Ford850. More lights to see better at night and to be seen by others day or night. My tractor has front hood lights, front cab lights, rear work lights, rear cab lights, front and rear 24" wide LED lights, front and rear flashing strobes, front and rear 4 way flashers, rooftop LED strobe plus reflective tape on both sides and rear of tractor. When I'm on the road the tractor is lit up like a Christmas tree hoping it will be seen and not hit.

What he said!

 

[chim]

I travel a little over a mile to do snow removal at the church. I never use the LED work lights on the road because they'd be something I wouldn't want to be driving towards. The tractor lights (head & tail) along with some LED flashers suffice, and of course there's the SMV triangle. The LEDS all come on with one switch. The four single LEDs on the front are set to different patterns to give them an overall random pattern appearance. One four-LED on each side and two on the rear are wired so the flash pattern on all four-LED lights matches when triggered to change.


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