Seat Belt Strangle Hold

[chilibit]

I use a cab model 5030. The seat belt may be the same on the non-cab models, I don't know.

It is an inertial reel assembly that with bouncing around in the fields gets tighter and tighter. To the point I can't look to the rear. Which it seems I do about 40% of the time. To fix, I have to disconnect, let it roll back and then reattach.

I am thinking I will dump it and get a manual belt. Is there another fix for this?

I searched the forum but did not seem to find this. It is the only complaint I have with this tractor.

Vince

 

[Pks]

The kind of belt you have is also used on the B2400. I will venture to guess that it is used on all tractors. And here's why.

The mechanism is an older style that was (I think) developed in the 70's for automobiles. As you already know, the mechanism locks, upon retracting, after the belt has been pulled to a distance about halfway across your body. As the belt shortens, the rachet takes up the slack. The more the belt shortens, the tighter it gets across your body.

Automobiles these days use a belt that has a belt lock which is triggered by combinations of an explosive charge and inertia.

Belt systems made in the 80's and 90's only have the inertia triggered lock.

For automobiles, the belt tension can be kept the same but the length can vary as the user moves around. Until a crash occurs and the lock is triggered.

Airplanes don't even bother with retractors and locks. They rely on the human to adjust the belt tension. With this approach, the belt tension stays the same as does the length.

Now, I'm not suggesting this is going to work properly for a tractor, but if you wanted to try something, you could easily remove the existing belt system (both sides: buckle and retractor) and install a belt system that has the 80's automobile inertia lock approach. But not the explosive version though. The explosive aspects are tied to airbags controlers.

You could also try the airlplane belt. In my opinion that would be my choice because there aren't any specail locks that could freeze up due to ice or dirt and become inoperable. I don't know how the airline version would handle the belt being wet or icy and frozen. The slip-lock might not work reliably. But inside a cab...it might be the perfect solution to your headache.

 

[CTyler]

Get one of those chip clips and snap it on the belt.

 

[chilibit]

Sorta what I was thinking. A zip tie or the button through the belt that the manufacturers use.

Thanks.

 

[wushaw]

I would go for the airplane style, simple and effective except when the airplane augers into the ground at 600mph, I don't think you will have to worry about this happening on a tractor /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[JustGary]

Find someone with a child's car seat that they don't need anymore. Get the steel piece that is used to hold the shoulder belt against the lap belt (the "locking clip"). Put it on your seatbelt and slide it down against the belt reel when you are on the tractor, and slide it back to the buckle end when you get off (so the belt can retract).

- Just Gary