Extending the Length of Your Tractor

rfawkes · Jun 21, 2004

I added a toothbar to my bucket, and it sure works sweet for picking up brush and such. However, when not being used, it is still sticking out 4 or 5 inches from the bucket. I was mowing around the poultry brooder house yesterday and made a turn near the brooder. You guessed it, the toothbar caught the wall of the brooder house, gouged a gaping hole in it and knocked it off the foundation. Luckily, none of the young guinea fowl were injured or killed because I wasn't thinking. It is bad enough to do something incredibly stupid when you are alone, but my wife and daughter were nearby and saw the whole incident. I spent all afternoon resetting and repairing the brooder house. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

GerardC · Jun 21, 2004

Think, think, think...... G

BubbaJr · Jun 21, 2004

Don't feel bad, you're not the only one to pull a trick like that. I was grading dirt around my brand new pole barn (hadn't been up more than 3-4 days) when I poked a fist sized hole in the metal siding with my toothbar. If that wasn't bad enough, I was going to cut a hole out under the office window for a motel type heat/AC unit. Do you think the hole I poked in the siding would be under the window? NOOOOOOOOO!! I missed it by 6 inches. I was by myself when it happened, but I don't think I could have felt any worse if I would have had an audience. I still get a strange feeling in my gut whenever I walk past it. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

slowzuki · Jun 21, 2004

My friends dad had just built a new shop, he brought a load of 20 ft steel home on the 3ton truck and backed it up to the door to leave it for the night.

Next morning his dad shows him the 3 neat holes punched through the 14 ft high roll up door!

JDgreen227 · Jun 21, 2004

Interesting you would post your experience on the same day I made a stupid mistake. Normally I do not install my 420 loader on my JD until late fall, but I spent yesterday and today doing backfill work, hauling dirt with the loader. Late this morning it began to rain so I drove to my barn, got off to fold the ROPS, and backed inside, forgetting the added length of the loader bucket....

BANG !!!! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

In a hurry because of the rain, I backed up at an angle and the bucket destroyed the left side OH door framing and weatherstrip as I steered in reverse.....scared the you-know-what out of me until I realized I hit something cheap.

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KiotiJohn · Jun 26, 2004

( Don't feel bad, you're not the only one to pull a trick like that. )
Speak for yourself BubaJr as I have never hit anything with my toothbar. But, can you come help me rebuild the entrance to my shed that I hit because I forgot I had the ROPS still up? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif John

Ozarker · Jun 26, 2004

You don't need a tractor or ROPS for that. When I first moved into this house I had an 84' Chevy Van w/roof rack. The house has a single car garage in the basement with a cheap aluminum overhead door. The connection from the center lock to the side bolts is light chain and the chains were a little too long.

So on the very first morning after I moved in, I raised the door, started my van, started backing out and heard a huge crash. I had backed into the door and tore it up pretty good.

Knowing that I had opened the door, I finally figured out that the roof rack had caught the chains on the door and closed it just before I hit it.

I replaced the damaged door sections and tightened up the chains on the latch so they didn't hang down.

BubbaJr · Jun 28, 2004

But, can you come help me rebuild the entrance to my shed that I hit because I forgot I had the ROPS still up? 

Hi John,

Sure, I would be glad to help you fix your shed. How do you plan to get it up here? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Wannafish · Jun 29, 2004

"Speak for yourself BubaJr as I have never hit anything with my toothbar."

K-John,
I've never hit anything with my toothbar either...I don't have one yet! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Luckily I'm handy with a saw /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif...got a few cracked boards in my garage door casing from the loader bucket /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif But Hey! It's only wood/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif