olPete
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I will sometimes put a bike in the bucket so I can head home for more coffee/food without having to take the tractor home, or put the bale spikes on and crowd them back so I have pointers to keep the runs straight, save my neck and reduce overlap (a trick I learned while seeding).
Mostly I remove the FEL for practice and to keep things from seizing up, so when it needs to come off, it's a quick job and not a half hour's worth of jiggling/cussing/hitting-with-a-hammer. My FEL is a NZ made Pearson loader with a wedge lock system, not quite a toolfree job, the wedges just need a tap and remove. It offers great visibility when on, and it stays on most of the spring and early summer for mowing silage/moving silage bales and then comes off for aeration and subsoiling when I get sick of looking through it.
That's when I find I need it!
I am doing a little contracting work now so it is on and off depending on the job and terrain, as are the duals..
Most of the farmers, especially the dairy farmers around here, leave theirs on all the time, often with attachments still on. Looks weird when you see a guy cultivating his land with whichever attachment was last used, dangling out the front!! Although I have noticed I certainly have had a change of pace going from 1200ac. of dairy farm to 110ac. that we own, jobs get planned around the tractor setup and not the other way around, so much
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