RK55HC Reverse Alarm location

[SpecificallyRandom]

Yeah, this right here. I couldn't understand why you would even think of crawling around under a running tractor while it's in gear (or pedal pressed). Even with a parking brake. I couldn't believe it when I read your post.

I did not think about it! However my wife, with the knowledge of my fully paid and up to date life insurance policy, did mention the break/stick/pedal idea. Which, again, I passed on because I don’t want to be a statistic and be featured in one of those tractor safety videos.

 

[Rustyiron]

Hey welcome to tbn!
Glad you can now back up peacefully.

 

[D&D]

However my wife, with the knowledge of my fully paid and up to date life insurance policy, did mention the break/stick/pedal idea.

Very thoughtful on her part.

 

[tacticalturnip]

This was a fun thread, lol, a back-up alarm in a small tractor really seems obnoxious.

 

[Snezzy]

Backup alarms are easily a hazard. Some people upon hearing a loud and obnoxious noise cover their ears and close their eyes. Also, it's hard to know the direction that a single-tone alarm sound is coming from. Where is that sound? "I don't know. It's inside my head. Shut it off!"

 

[Bentrim]

I have been around a "few" years. As a child there were no seat belts, side marker lights, back up cameras, lane monitors, 5 mph bumpers, drank out a garden hose and the spring, etc. I always thought those big chrome bumpers were good looking.
As I got older dad sat me on an 8N Ford and told me just hold the steering wheel straight, so they could load bales on the wagon. I couldn't even reach the pedals! A few years more and I was on a tricycle tractor (oh no a tricycle they are dangerous) plowing, disking, cultivating corn, mowing the pasture and wheat stubble, pulling loads of hay, straw and corn the the building to be unloaded, plowing snow in the winter, and anything that needed done.
All this was long before the guards and shields HAD to be installed for safety. You know those shields that take longer to remove and replace than it does to make the repair or adjustment, or removed and junked or thrown in a corner of the shed.
Now we had some ear shattering horn on a tractor, tractor or industrial equipment, so we can back up, safety switches that make more issues than the machine cause more agrivation than a flat tire.
Those safety engineers need to keep up their work of tormenting people, after all them need to earn their (overpaid) salary.
All these niceties may be nice but I sure appreciate older machine that YOU drove, NOT a computer, and one you could actually work on.
Oh yes I still have all my toes, and fingers, age has taken more than any machine.
Be careful out there, Use common sense. I know it isn't comon anymore!

 

[D&D]

The big flashing “R” that they have kindly programmed into the middle of the digital dash... It goes great with the giant flashing “F” when I move forward. The fact they needed to even do that much makes me worry about the future of the human race.

I checked all of our tractors and equipment. None of them have an F or R dash indicator. Guess I'll never know for sure which way I'm going

 

[tacticalturnip]

I checked all of our tractors and equipment. None of them have an F or R dash indicator. Guess I'll never know for sure which way I'm going

I've never known, so I feel comfort in my confusion.