Lets talk sun shadex

IslandTractor · May 29, 2009

PA hayseed said:
I bought the kioti orange plastic thing, and I'm not crazy about it. It does shield the sun, and it hasn't broken from tree limbs. My problem is that even with the rops all the way back, it won't fit in my garage.

So, is your problem with the sun shade or your garage door?

I solved that problem another way

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PA hayseed · May 29, 2009

IslandTractor said:
So, is your problem with the sun shade or your garage door?

I solved that problem another way :

Nice! I see you barely have room to get that rig in there. I suffer from the same issue.

I can't see chopping up my pole building to add new garage doors. I might extend the back end of it and make that opening bigger, then I won't have an issue with the canopy.

Did you see some of the other canopies? Looks like they are side mount jobs and not top mounts, I just think if I would have held out longer and endured another sun burn or two, I would've found ones that would have attached and removed easier.

Oh well, live and learn.

IslandTractor · May 29, 2009

PA hayseed said:
Did you see some of the other canopies? Looks like they are side mount jobs and not top mounts,

Not in person, just on the internet. I was actually more concerned about not hitting my head on the thing as I mounted (I'm 6'5") and I did not have a garage height issue to worry about. In the end it came down to taking what the dealer recommended and had in stock. I've been happy with it.

MtnViewRanch · May 30, 2009

Have any of you that have height clearance problems ever checked to see if you could fold down your ROPS with your canopy on? I had to do that with my Mahindra 7520 for awhile. There was juuuust enough clearance to be able to do that and not have the shade bind up on the ROPS.

PA hayseed · May 31, 2009

MtnViewRanch said:
Have any of you that have height clearance problems ever checked to see if you could fold down your ROPS with your canopy on? I had to do that with my Mahindra 7520 for awhile. There was juuuust enough clearance to be able to do that and not have the shade bind up on the ROPS.

didn't work for me. Kioti's rops lay/tilt backwards on my tractor. My old CC tractor rops use to fold in half, which would work with a shade and my garage door clearance.