Chain Storage Ideas Wanted

[piller]

I usually leave my box blade on all summer and i keep a 35' chain wrapped around two of the scarifiers, I have used the tractor with this setup all summer and it has worked well for me.........Craig

I do the same thing. :thumbsup:

 

[Scotty Dive]

Guess I will have to buy a box blade! which coincidentally, I ordered today!

 

[California]

I added a kid-size golf bag strapped to the inside face of the right loader column. I carry the chains there now. (Two 12 ft chains).

I just found a photo. Here I used the bag as a holster that wouldn't damage my cordless reciprocating saw, that I use to prune dead limbs in the orchard. Normally the two chains and my long handle pruners ride in there.

I recommend this, it works well.

 

[clemsonfor]

California i dont think many on here will use your idea. I get the idea that many of these guys dont like the "hobo" look, as they buy brand new tractors wash wax and never let theirs be in the rain, as well as paint all implements at the first scratch. It is a good idea though.

I also think that is the very golf bag i have or use to have. I really dont remember as im sure i have not played golf in 8-9 years maybe less?

 

[deepNdirt]

If Your tractor is anything like mine with having a FEL remote stick on the right side of tractor, I pretty much cannot use this side to mount or exit from the tractor, so anything I do or add to this area would not effect my ability to use the tractor, while visiting My neighbor who happens to be a Pro welder, He has a truck setup for mobile welding use and has everything nicely setup, I notice what he made to hold his welding cables and torch hoses, Looks very much like the picture I have sketched out, it looked to be a rather simply fabrication, Kinda like what you would wrap a lawn water hose around, You could either bolt it on or weld it in place, But In my thoughts this part of the tractor would be an area out of the way and easy enough to get to when in need of the chain, although would cause to have wrap and unwrap it from its holder,

 

[clemsonfor]

If the tractor he wants this on is the one in the avatar there is no loader. I still can understand why he just cant wrap it around the front bumper?

 

[Car Doc]

Like I mentioned earlier far as mine is concerned I gave up trying to find some cool innovative way and simply put it in the tool box and it works just great makes life easy.

 

[California]

California i dont think many on here will use your idea. I get the idea that many of these guys dont like the "hobo" look, as they buy brand new tractors wash wax and never let theirs be in the rain, as well as paint all implements at the first scratch.

Hobo Look? Me?

I looked up this old picture to illustrate my chains wrapped around the hooks on my loader. But I guess it illustrates your point too! :laughing:

I found that chains wrapped like this on the loader are a nuisance to untangle which discourages using them. It is a lot simpler to tug them out the top of my golf bag - they lift out without tangles ready to go to work. Any sort of vertical tube or bucket would serve as well.

For anyone interested in loader hooks: These are actually four 'cold shut' chain repair links, the largest size that a chain link will slip over. They work great as anchor points and don't bind up like a grab hook can. I've never bent one.

 

[California]

simply put it in the tool box and it works just great makes life easy.

I wish these little tractors had space for a toolbox like you have. I've tried positioning various boxes, ammo cans, etc everywhere and there just isn't room. The area behind the seat on my YM240 has to be clear to leave room for the backhoe seat. On the little YM186D the lift arms raise so high that there's no space for a toolbox. (Also a box behind the seat would cover the transmission fill plug there). I have thought of a platform on top of the front suitcase weights, on the YM186D, but I can't find another space large enough for even an ammo can.

 

[Scotty Dive]

Hi guys....I put the original request out and I do have a loader and have welded hooks on to it where I have wrapped the chain around them, but they shake and rattle off. I also have wrapped them around my quick hitch with better success.

I think I am going the car doc route of installing a tool box behind the seat and between the rops vertical bars. The problem I am having is fab'ing something that doesn't involve drilling or welding to the bars. I am thinking of using some hose clamps that go through a couple of slices I can make in the tool box. Car Doc...did you weld brackets to your rops? if not how did you do it?