CMV
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So it's been about a year, a little over 100 hrs with the NX now. And have never once thought "I sure am glad it has that seat safety switch!". But can't count the # of times I thought the opposite and I muttered curses under my breath at it.
I'm really trying to think of some beneficial reason to leave it enabled but can't come up with anything. Is there a valid reason to not disable that?
I wanted to do it on day 1 but figured I better wait "just in case". I think it's been long enough now & should get rid of it. As far as I can tell it slows down or outright hinders operation way too often for any safety benefit it might provide (and am unsure exactly what safety benefit it offers at all). The biggest drawbacks/gripes having it:
1. Mrs CMV weighs a lot less than I do so every time she hops on has to adjust the seat tension for a minute so she engages the seat safety. The way I set it for me (190 lbs) she can't even get it to start.
2. Using pallet forks by sense of smell is getting real old. Almost feel like basic training when you were learning movement to contact - "I'm up, he sees me, I'm down". Same type of pop up, hurry & get back down just to get pallet forks under something.
3. Same for digging out a half buried rock or something where I want to see the tips of bucket teeth or just need some finer/more precise movement/location of the bucket lip.
4. Jumping off to grab a branch/stick/rock/trash/anything I don't want to go over with the bush hog. I have a LOT of baseball-softball sized rocks and the ground just spits up more every month it seems. Turn off PTO, put in N, set parking brake, hop off for 3 sec to toss whatever, release brake, hunt around to find M again, reengage PTO, repeat every 25 yds for next debris.
5. Filling berms from rear - I need to get the bucket edge as close to the side as possible and then raise up next to a rear support beam. Not difficult, but need to lean way to the side to see side of bucket vs the fixed object I don't want to hit. Just that leaning triggers the seat sensor.
I'm sure there are other one-off times it has annoyed me, but those are all frequent things I do that make me dislike it continually.
I'm really trying to think of some beneficial reason to leave it enabled but can't come up with anything. Is there a valid reason to not disable that?
I wanted to do it on day 1 but figured I better wait "just in case". I think it's been long enough now & should get rid of it. As far as I can tell it slows down or outright hinders operation way too often for any safety benefit it might provide (and am unsure exactly what safety benefit it offers at all). The biggest drawbacks/gripes having it:
1. Mrs CMV weighs a lot less than I do so every time she hops on has to adjust the seat tension for a minute so she engages the seat safety. The way I set it for me (190 lbs) she can't even get it to start.
2. Using pallet forks by sense of smell is getting real old. Almost feel like basic training when you were learning movement to contact - "I'm up, he sees me, I'm down". Same type of pop up, hurry & get back down just to get pallet forks under something.
3. Same for digging out a half buried rock or something where I want to see the tips of bucket teeth or just need some finer/more precise movement/location of the bucket lip.
4. Jumping off to grab a branch/stick/rock/trash/anything I don't want to go over with the bush hog. I have a LOT of baseball-softball sized rocks and the ground just spits up more every month it seems. Turn off PTO, put in N, set parking brake, hop off for 3 sec to toss whatever, release brake, hunt around to find M again, reengage PTO, repeat every 25 yds for next debris.
5. Filling berms from rear - I need to get the bucket edge as close to the side as possible and then raise up next to a rear support beam. Not difficult, but need to lean way to the side to see side of bucket vs the fixed object I don't want to hit. Just that leaning triggers the seat sensor.
I'm sure there are other one-off times it has annoyed me, but those are all frequent things I do that make me dislike it continually.