Lights, Camera, Action

4shorts · Dec 17, 2008

Scooby074 said:
Beautiful job. Excellent workmanship on the light "buckets". You should have great luck with those Grote? leds.

Thanks neighbor. They are Grote ones. Have a Merry Christmas over there

JDeerekid · Dec 31, 2008

WOW, 4shorts just found this thread. I usually look for threads you start but missed this one. How much to make a set of those lights

??? They are awesome.
I also believe in the more lights the better. Just watched the local news a couple minutes ago a man who was on his tractor clearing snow from his driveway got hit by a car when backing out into the road and was killed.
That is why I added some lights to my tractor but not as many as I would like. Do you have a link to where you bought the lights from?

Thanks for sharing the projects that you have done with us!!!

4shorts · Dec 31, 2008

JDeerekid said:
WOW, 4shorts just found this thread. I usually look for threads you start but missed this one. How much to make a set of those lights??? They are awesome.
I also believe in the more lights the better. Just watched the local news a couple minutes ago a man who was on his tractor clearing snow from his driveway got hit by a car when backing out into the road and was killed.
That is why I added some lights to my tractor but not as many as I would like. Do you have a link to where you bought the lights from?

Thanks for sharing the projects that you have done with us!!!

Thank you Eric for the kind words. I wanted to do the video to show everyone just how I did it plus it's a little easier than just posting pictures. To bad about the poor guy on the tractor. Always bad to hear these things this time of the year.

The lights are made by Grote and the part numer is # 77362. The part number is for one. The lights are LEd and water proof. You'll also need a small wiring pigtails that go into each light and they will be water proof as well. There will be three wires on the pigtail. One is ground. One is park and one is stop. If you hook up the park wire the light will flash slow. If you hook up the other wire the light will flash fast and just don't connect to slow wire. I went with the fast flash

I don't need to tell you that it gets a lot of attention

Oh. The cheapest place to purchase these lights will be from a Tractor truck parts store. Places like Napa will want your first born to buy one. I think up here in Canada I paid around $30. each and about $4. for each pig tail.

Thanks for posting as well. Happy New Year to everyone! Paul

medicshawn · Jan 1, 2009

Try northerntool.com for lights. You can also get a light boxes like he built sku330552 from northen. They also have other styles.

You could also try etrailer.com or ebay.

groundcover · Jan 1, 2009

Another good supplier of lights:
Towing | Recovery | Repo|Service Truck Equipment and Supplies - AW Direct

GeneD14 · Jan 2, 2009

Great fabrication job on the lights!!! They look excellent.

RussMan · Jan 6, 2009

Guys, I am not up to speed with you on this lighting project but want to add some to my 3030. Is the benefit of the LED lights that they are bright, or that they don't draw as many amps as other lights? Or both?

4shorts · Jan 6, 2009

RussMan said:
Guys, I am not up to speed with you on this lighting project but want to add some to my 3030. Is the benefit of the LED lights that they are bright, or that they don't draw as many amps as other lights? Or both?

On both accounts sir. Very easy on the voltage draw, long lasting, good in high vibration areas and very bright.

RussMan · Jan 6, 2009

4Shorts - thanks. So when you reference you bought lights for $30 is that LED lights? Or are the LED lights around $100 each (seems like I recall a thread referencing they were $100).

Philscbx · Jan 6, 2009

That was some of the classiest builds I have seen.
A whole stack of stars for your fridge.
Can you even see the door to it yet?

Was that the weather channel on the console?
How cool is That!

I'm somewhat the same.
I hated doing chores in the dark all the time and put some great road lights left over from the Honda, and it's middle of winter out back skidding in some firewood, whatever, and the Sheriff pulls up next to me.

He says your busted for shining deer!
WTh did you just say? As I shut down the Massey.
Some neighbor at least a 1/4 mile away through the woods claims this and calls it in.

I said look, the only weapon I ever shot a deer with was a 35mm camera. Then he went on his way.
Then we went on tour and had a similar talk with the neighbor.

These must be the types that claim spaceships steal their beer.

Anyway, Love that fab going on in your world.
I'm very proud of my new little Miller 110 volt, I use more than the 220v Miller 250.

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