whoa now hold up i never said your attitude botherd me if it came across that way i appoligize . what i meant was you have a live and let live attitude about the whole pedal placement turn brake thing. i dont think i implied any where in there that your attitude botherd me. once again i apoligize for the misunderstanding .
No harm no foul. I was thinking poorly. Sorry, you have my apology.
I believe in whatever works for the operator. There is no perfect machine and no perfect operator. If you can do what you need to do well enough with what you use and how you use it then good for you, whatever anyone else thinks about it. With the price of tractors these days I will probably always have to compromise but so long as I can get GOOD ENOUGH I'll do OK.
I have been laughed at for having a cab but today the chill factor was below zero and I was toasty warm. My heater will literally drive you out of the cab on sub zero days if you turn it up all the way. Must have been designed for the arctic.
I have been laughed at for having HST but I have worked right beside other operators with shuttle shift, straight gears, and so forth and I load more gravel or dirt in less time. If I were a row cropper I'd have a different tractor but I'm not. I have plows and disks and drag harrows and on and on but I don't do precise military rows and don't need to. I'm tickled with my tractor and couldn't imagine being more pleased with the compromise in size, HP, hydraulics. I maintain and improve my 160 acres and keep 25-30 head of Angus in my small cow-calf operation. I have friends with the same size operation and some larger who envy my tractor because they were sold something which is NOT so good of a fit. Too small of a new JD or a big old row cropper tractor that can't use its loader for as much as my little tractor does for fear of breaking the front suspension, again.
Funny but cutting brakes have never come up in conversation with either of them. Yet another couple of guys who have tasks similar to mine who just aren't involved with cutting brakes. Imagine that.
If I needed 'em I'd darn sure have a different style tractor or put a remote HST pedal on the left side so as to free up the right foot for cutting brake action. In fact I like everything else about my tractor so much I think If I were a cutting brake user I'd still want it and put on the accessory left foot HST pedal and get the better of both worlds. If I had a tractor I liked except for hydo and brakes on the same side it would be far cheaper to add an accessory pedal on the left than buy a new tractor.
Patrick
I don't know, I would have to go back and re-read all the posts again, but has anybody that has them on the right said that they are in the best place on the right? I think that those of us that have them on the right either do not use them at all or seldom, no big deal. But some of you that have them on the left can't seem to grasp how or why we would have the tractors that we have. Like why in the world would you buy a tractor like that? Well, believe it or not, some of us do not have any real need to use them, so it really was not a factor, for me anyway when I purchased the tractor. I know, I know you still can't grasp the concept, but it is indeed true. 