Most Useful Minor Additions to Tractor

[lennyzx11]

Most useful minor adds for me mirror others here: 1) rear work lightsView attachment 458791 Huge benefit when using the rear snow blower at night.2) Floor mats for the deck View attachment 458793 Better grip and protects the deck. Added a mat to the center hump after the pic was taken.
3) Fire extinguisher and larger tool box View attachment 458794 Both a must have IMO. Also like the spinner knob that I added recently.

Next on the list will be to configure a way to mount a storage system for a chain.

I just finished mine. (Chain storage) I used a 4" piece of PVC for my 3/8" chain. But it looks like 3" will work nicely for my buddy's 5/16" chain I'm making for him.

Here's the thread.

Kubota L3301HST/LA525 modifications
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=350543

 

[powerscol]

Lights...I can see at night now while working.

 

[dbotos]

Added this one yesterday: a hook for hanging 3-point pins while changing implements. It's just a piece of solid copper wire attached to the SMV sign bracket. Strong enough to hold the pins, but weak enough that it'll bend and not gore anyone if they caught an arm on it.



Really need to make a little board with four hooks on it so I can hang each piece on it's own hook (two lynch pins the lift arm pins, top link pin, and clip for top link pin). Maybe make some parallel-wire J-hooks like this:

 

[lakngulf]

Added this one yesterday: a hook for hanging 3-point pins while changing implements. It's just a piece of solid copper wire attached to the SMV sign bracket. Strong enough to hold the pins, but weak enough that it'll bend and not gore anyone if they caught an arm on it.

View attachment 458855

Really need to make a little board with four hooks on it so I can hang each piece on it's own hook (two lynch pins the lift arm pins, top link pin, and clip for top link pin). Maybe make some parallel-wire J-hooks like this:

View attachment 458856

Great idea!!

 

[AxleHub]

Added this one yesterday: a hook for hanging 3-point pins while changing implements. It's just a piece of solid copper wire attached to the SMV sign bracket. Strong enough to hold the pins, but weak enough that it'll bend and not gore anyone if they caught an arm on it.

View attachment 458855

Really need to make a little board with four hooks on it so I can hang each piece on it's own hook (two lynch pins the lift arm pins, top link pin, and clip for top link pin). Maybe make some parallel-wire J-hooks like this:

View attachment 458856

How about one of those plastic bathroom/kitchen hook units? Its 6 or 8 inches wide and 1.5 inches tall and has 4 solid plastic hooks on it. Its all plastic so wouldn't absorb water, its light weight but strong and easy to mount because the back is flat. The builtin hooks end with a rounded ball effect. Its width would give enough spacing to take items off and on easily. I've got one somewhere still in the package. Good idea dbotos. Can get them at many locations. The ones I'm talking about the hooks each round out and up about an inch or more . . Not the ones that extend out at a tight sharp angle.

 

[countrybumpkin]

I mounted two clevis D Rings to the front frame, makes hooking my tie down chains up a quick and simple.

 

[dbotos]

Yup, like the plastic version of one of these over-the-door racks:



Single coat/hat hooks would be pretty cheap too (just screw to a scrap board):

 

[BIKER BOB]

Plus one for the steering wheel spinner!! Of the many small additions, this one is by far the most handy. I do like a bunch of the ideas mentioned here, looks like more time in the garage for me! Thanks folks.

 

[The Deerslayer]

Added this one yesterday: a hook for hanging 3-point pins while changing implements. It's just a piece of solid copper wire attached to the SMV sign bracket. Strong enough to hold the pins, but weak enough that it'll bend and not gore anyone if they caught an arm on it.

View attachment 458855

Really need to make a little board with four hooks on it so I can hang each piece on it's own hook (two lynch pins the lift arm pins, top link pin, and clip for top link pin). Maybe make some parallel-wire J-hooks like this:

View attachment 458856

Outstandingly simple....thanks!!

 

[PhysAssist]

That is a good question and one I ask myself all the time. Especially this winter where we have ice every where. But the short answer is that when I bought this tractor the dealer told me there were two things I needed to understand about the 4 wheel drive on a CUT. 1- is that the front end turns faster than the rear so there is always some slip between the two. And 2- The front end is much less robust than the rear and therefore easier to break.

He thought chaining up the front would be OK on a driveway or an even surface but that working in the woods where the ground is so rough and variable all the slipping and grabbing by the front chains would be very hard on the puny front end components. So he didn't advise chaining the front tires for woods work. However when I started looking at TBN I saw that quite a few folks chain up the fronts w/o trouble but not many work in the woods all the time like I do though. I just remember that initial advise.

gg

We don't do near what you do in the woods, but our dealer said that we should neither weight (fill w/ Rimguard) nor chain our fronts.