Lost the key...

[CompactTractorFan]

Good luck with finding your key Kyle.

Thanks! :thumbsup:

 

[chad22]

Thanks! :thumbsup:

I found your key. Now I got me a tractor "Evil Laugh". :laughing:

I lost my house and truck keys last week. I had them in my dads van when I followed him in with it to have tires changed. I set the keys up on the cup holder. I looked all over that van for my keys. No Luck so I broke the lock to get in my camper.

Turns out next day after all that my brother found them in the pouch on the side of the rear passenger door where he had put them. :laughing:

Chad

 

[RoyJackson]

My Deere has a pair of bright orange key heads, have never lost one because I almost never take the key out. I wonder sometimes if we would have fewer tractor thefts if the keys for our machines had those electronic chips in the key themselves, as most cars do today. I have read that replacements for those keys with the chip can cost hundreds of dollars.

I don't think CUT thefts are a big problem. And, you're correct about the cost of those chipped keys...$$$ (my Nissan Frontier has a chipped key...about 80 bucks to get a spare).
Industrial equipment such as backhoes, frontend loaders, etc. might be a different story. The cost of those machines, as well as the easy access at a construction site, might make chipped keys a worthwhile addition.

 

[Mace Canute]

The worst place to find a key after you've spent a long time looking for it, is right in your hand.




Don't ask how I know....

 

[Mean Jean]

I never remove my tractor key.
I am however going to wire the key to something under the dash.
Prevent losing it if the key pops out.

I would like a toggle switch in my half ton.
I hate having to duck into the house for a set just to move the truck 8 feet.

 

[not2old]

Which parking lot? I could use a kubota.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

I don't need a Kabota, I've got a Massey.:laughing::laughing::laughing:

It's not a good idea to hang my ring of keys on my motorcycles, my tractor, or my snowmobile,in case they fall off, so I put a small ring on each of these and keep them on my main ring with a quick attachment. I make sure they go on there as soon as they are removed from the machine.

 

[kday64]

My dad's old Ford only required a key to start. Wish I would have know this before I lost my father's keys.

 

[kebo]

I know this wasn't a key, but I was in the local JD dealer last week and picked up a cell phone that was laying on the floor. Apparently someone in the owners office had dropped it. I took it home and it wasnt too awful long a friend of the phone's owner called it and I answered it. I told him I wasn't who he thought I was lol! Took a him a bit to catch on after I splained what had happened. He volunteered to drive to meet me, pick up the phone, and deliver the phone to it's rightful owner. Sounded like a pretty good friend to me!

As for keys, I already have acquired one spare key. Hope I don't need another one!!!

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

I put a short length of para-cord on my JD key and a plastic snap on the other end. The cord goes around the steering column and snaps.

The key always comes into the house and is always hanging on the hook with the other stuff. No losses............ Yet........ (knock on wood)

However, does anyone know where I left my 3/8" drill ?
Wyo

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Mom looked in the parking lot; no key...

 

[RoyJackson]

I put a short length of para-cord on my JD key and a plastic snap on the other end. The cord goes around the steering column and snaps.

That's a good idea!

 

[not2old]

I put a short length of para-cord on my JD key and a plastic snap on the other end. The cord goes around the steering column and snaps.

The key always comes into the house and is always hanging on the hook with the other stuff. No losses............ Yet........ (knock on wood)

However, does anyone know where I left my 3/8" drill ?
Wyo

I recently went snowmobiling in an area new to me. I was warned not to leave my sled unattended with the key in it as a local Jay has learned how to remove them. This bird doesn't even keep them, as several people have seen it drop the key into the snow while flying away. I'm assuming this bird likes his/her peace and quiet.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

UPDATE:


I found it!!! :drink::dance1:

Any guesses where???

 

[tommu56]

Get these and you wont ever have to worry about any tractor key again.

Heavy-Equipment-Tractor-Truck-Construction-Machine-Keys - eBay (item 350268082067 end time Apr-14-11 13:19:06 PDT)

 

[mjw357]

In the laundry?

 

[radioman]

either on the floorboard of BX or in the ignition. :thumbsup:

 

[banjodunn]

If you are like me you put it in that nice safe spot where it can't get lost or knocked down or found by someone who shouldn't have it, i've got lots of those spots it's just that i can never seem to remember where they are:laughing::laughing:

Jon

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Well, I just I thought I lost it again, but it just fell down off the key hook. :ashamed: Well...I have left the key on the tractor, but that is not where I found it. The last time I had the key was when I was in the car and I reached in my pocket and realized I had left it in my sweatshirt. Knowing that if I put it back in my pocket it would probably fall out, I put it in the place I thought would be safest at the moment..In the sun visor. :ashamed: :mur: :confused2: To add to that, it was not in the regular sun visor, it was in the small visor (for when you have the regular visor in the side window) that is behind the regular one...:confused2:

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Get these and you wont ever have to worry about any tractor key again.

Heavy-Equipment-Tractor-Truck-Construction-Machine-Keys - eBay (item 350268082067 end time Apr-14-11 13:19:06 PDT)

Wow...Don't think I need all them...:confused2:

 

[schmism]

"key"? what is a "key" for a kubota?

because a "key" for my NH (and virtually all other CUT's ive seen) is a flat slab of metal that will fit in the ignition switch. also true for golf carts.

Hard to loose one of those :thumbsup: