Starting BX24 in boathouse (avoid fumes)

[mswlogo]

How fast can you folks mount or dismount the Backhoe? Sure would be nice to take my time and not pass out while doing it.

Very simple to drill a hole in the floor and run 3 feet of hose and do anything I want with the tractor any time in or out, doing service etc. Bird lungs and my lungs will be happy. Don't understand the big deal.

I have a ladder suspended from the ceiling and they tend to like to poop while on it. There is a straight line of poop under it.

 

[LBrown59]

1*How fast can you folks mount or dismount the Backhoe? Sure would be nice to take my time and not pass out while doing it.

2*Very simple to drill a hole in the floor and run 3 feet of hose and do anything I want with the tractor any time in or out, doing service etc. Bird lungs and my lungs will be happy. Don't understand the big deal.

I have a ladder suspended from the ceiling and they tend to like to poop while on it. There is a straight line of poop under it.

1*Don't know -> never tried it.

2*I've never needed an exhaust hose when working on cars in a garage so why would I need one for a tractor ??
== L B ==

 

[mswlogo]

1*Don't know -> never tried it.

2*I've never needed an exhaust hose when working on cars in a garage so why would I need one for a tractor ??
== L B ==

2) Maybe that explains all the useless responses.

 

[rdsaustintx]

Other people were having a polite discussion. You came along and basically told everyone involved in this thread that their conversation was meaningless. Does it really surprise you that someone dared respond to you by telling you that if you don't want to be part of a constructive conversation, staying out of it is a better choice? Do you really think name calling and using eye rolling faces in a public forum is going to make anyone take you more seriously? What if this were not cyberspace? If you were actually standing in front of a dozen other men who were having this discussion, would you speak up and say these same things aloud straight to their faces, or do you only do so because you are safely anonymous somewhere in cyberspace?

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OK Mary, write another wall of text nagging a guy that wrote two short sentences. At least my post was on topic.

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It ain't a problem.

 

[Berniep]

2*I've never needed an exhaust hose when working on cars in a garage so why would I need one for a tractor ??
== L B ==

Get a carbon monoxide detector and see how fast the levels rise even in an open sided shed (3walls) if you don't change your mind then, the carbon monoxide levels will do it for you eventually. It's poison and it's cumulative.

 

[Harry c]

How fast can you folks mount or dismount the Backhoe? Sure would be nice to take my time and not pass out while doing it.

Actually, I can usually mount my BX24 BH in about 2 minutes. Of that time only about 1 minute is with the tractor running. The FEL is now about 1 1/2 minutes. Most of the time is hooking up the hoses.

 

[Renob]

2*I've never needed an exhaust hose when working on cars in a garage so why would I need one for a tractor ??
== L B ==

Another piece to the puzzle!

 

[Grrrr]

This thread has gone way off the point. The is a problem because mswlogo doesn't want to scare the birds off and running the tractor in there will make the birds go. If you birds were as picky as the birds we have around here then just the noise would send them on there way

However, you definitely don't need to warm the tractor up for five minutes before you move it. You don't even do that for tractors that have massively more complex engines than your BX.

I think that you will just be able to get on the tractor, start it up and drive it straight out. Then leave it to warm up. Do you leave your car for five minutes before you move it?

I can see that you are going to have a problem though when you need to leave it running for longer periods of time like when you connect up the BH. This is when you may need the exhaust extensions.

This is the sort of thing that I thought of when thinking about fume extractors.

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I think that you could build something like this pretty easily.

But I think that this would be an absolute PITA to use and I know I would just end up not bothering to connect it up You must have more patience than me.

 

[LBrown59]

However, you definitely don't need to warm the tractor up for five minutes before you move it. .

I think that you will just be able to get on the tractor, start it up and drive it straight out. Then leave it to warm up. Do you leave your car for five minutes before you move it?

I can see that you are going to have a problem though when you need to leave it running for longer periods of time like when you connect up the BH.

Not a problem for me for the BH, Fel. Mower,front blade or rear tiller.
They are all always on all on the tractors redy to go anytime.

 

[rdsaustintx]

Get a carbon monoxide detector and see how fast the levels rise even in an open sided shed (3walls) if you don't change your mind then, the carbon monoxide levels will do it for you eventually. It's poison and it's cumulative.

Love your posts Bernie, but YOU are the one in the silly hat.

Despite my comments (sorry, but his swallows are just a nuisance), I do care about IAQ and have a NightHawk CO detector in my shop, but not my barn. When I run the tractor in the shop (with two overhead doors open) it will show 100-200ppm in 15 minutes. Eight hours of that could make you stupid for a while, but an occasional half hour won't hurt much at all. Maybe the same uptake as a good Cohiba (yum). Undiluted tabacco smoke has 1000's of ppm.

The air in some cities is 400ppm. Parking garages and tunnels can run 600ppm.

800-1000ppm can kill you in a few hours, esp. if you are already sick.

3/4 of CO deaths are intentional suicide. Most of the accidental deaths are people sleeping.

No idea what concentration or uptake would kill a bird. I'm sure it is much less, but just don't care.

RDnT