gunmonkeyintl
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I've been out of town more than home lately, but finally got some more seat time working on my road project, and finished my chain and tool storage project this weekend.
I borrowed the chain can idea from another post on the forum, but expanded on it. Like the other poster, I replaced my plexi kick panels with plywood plates and yolks to hold a PVC pipe, but I made the pipe into removeable canisters. I bent some 5/16" rod into handles, and cut the caps so that they lock into place on the handles. The canisters are held in place with a ratchet sinch, so I can lift off the canister and take the chain to the log without having to wrestle it like a python. I found on my first trip out with them that the mounted canisters also provide a convenient place to hang my helmet and chaps (later pic).
I also mounted a couple tool boxes. I started with a couple holes on the sides of the fenders, below the out-board ROPS bolts:
I fitted rubber grommets to keep vibration from wearing the paint at the mounting site:
I welded up a couple baskets that bolt to the ROPS mount and fenders and hold the deep plastic ammo boxes. My first time out with them, I some miscellaneous tools and my gloves in one, and several bottles of water in the other.
Mounted, the boxes are just narrower than the exposed part of the tire, so I don't have to worry about snagging them on anything that wouldn't be scraping my tire, and I can reach them easily from the seat.
Being removeable has already proven handy, since I don't have to root around for tools in a box up high on the tractor. When I needed to do attach a clevis to my drawbar, I just took the tool box down behind the tractor with me. Too, when it gets hot again, I can throw some ice in with my water and dump it out when I'm done.
It's still not as much on-board storage as I'd like, but it is a step in the right direction.
I borrowed the chain can idea from another post on the forum, but expanded on it. Like the other poster, I replaced my plexi kick panels with plywood plates and yolks to hold a PVC pipe, but I made the pipe into removeable canisters. I bent some 5/16" rod into handles, and cut the caps so that they lock into place on the handles. The canisters are held in place with a ratchet sinch, so I can lift off the canister and take the chain to the log without having to wrestle it like a python. I found on my first trip out with them that the mounted canisters also provide a convenient place to hang my helmet and chaps (later pic).
I also mounted a couple tool boxes. I started with a couple holes on the sides of the fenders, below the out-board ROPS bolts:
I fitted rubber grommets to keep vibration from wearing the paint at the mounting site:
I welded up a couple baskets that bolt to the ROPS mount and fenders and hold the deep plastic ammo boxes. My first time out with them, I some miscellaneous tools and my gloves in one, and several bottles of water in the other.
Mounted, the boxes are just narrower than the exposed part of the tire, so I don't have to worry about snagging them on anything that wouldn't be scraping my tire, and I can reach them easily from the seat.
Being removeable has already proven handy, since I don't have to root around for tools in a box up high on the tractor. When I needed to do attach a clevis to my drawbar, I just took the tool box down behind the tractor with me. Too, when it gets hot again, I can throw some ice in with my water and dump it out when I'm done.
It's still not as much on-board storage as I'd like, but it is a step in the right direction.
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