steering wheel spinner knobs

[Gary Fowler]

Just turn off your engine and slowly turn the wheel till it get straight or to the position that you want. Let the oil bypass slowly as you turn the wheel. It wont stay there very long though as is the practice with hydrostatic steering, they will creep a little. Every deer needs to lay down occasionally so just let him rest for a while then next thing you know, he will be standing up again.

 

[Soundguy]

True...BUT I know on my tractor at least it's REAL SLOW! I have tried to get my Deere emblem in the steering wheel straight before while mowing, after about 15 minutes I was only 1/4 of the way there and gave up.

If the slow don't work.. just steer to one lock, an dthen move the spinner to where ya want it.. just make sure you count number of turns from wheels centered to lock.. so you know how far past lock to turn it so that the spinner or emblem is where ya want it when you recenter it..

soundguy

 

[TrippleT]

I have a spinner on my tractor and I wouldn't take it off at all. It is really handy for mowing even if you have power steering and mine does. I just like the thing got it at TSC.
I guess it is a personal thing some do some don't like them.

 

[DMF]

I have one on my 2 IH Cub Cadet garden tractors (model 86 for mowing between Christmas trees and 1450 for mowing the lawn) and I took the one off my Massey Ferguson 1433 when I just upgraded to my new Massey Ferguson 1552, which I'll probably put on this week.

For me they make a non power steering tractor act as if it was power steering and a power steering tractor that much easier...

 

[RobJ]

But.. because of that steering setup.. you -can- move the spinner back where you want it if you do it slowly.. and you don't have that knuckle bustin' to worry about like on a mechanically linked steering setup.

soundguy

My emblem is always looking at me!!

 

[SailorBob]

I have one on my manual steering Yanmar and love it. It is really handy when mowing especially around obstacles. I have found myself using it 90% of the time. I have never been hurt by it either. Best 5$ i ever spent on the tractor.

 

[Soundguy]

While I'd have to go out and verify this... I 'think' every tractor I have.. except my 49' allis G, has a spinner on it.. the allis G has that funny shaped steering wheel.. so I left the spinner off..

soundguy

 

[gemini5362]

soundguy did they have to do a special run on spinners at the factory to be able to supply you with them ?

I dont have one on my montana but that will be my next purchase for it. I did not have one because it has power steering but I have been using my kubota for a while lately and I am realizing how much I use the spinner since reading this thread.

 

[Soundguy]

I especially like the spinner on my ps tractors...

soundguy

 

[patrick_g]

I have never had a spinner.

I grew up around adults who always called them suicide knobs and never heard them referred to in other terms.

I know some of them have a button to fold them down to be less in the way for normal operations. That would seem useful.

I suppose one of the reasons I have no interest in putting one on my tractor is the power steering is so easy to use I can spin the wheel with one finger.

A neighbor of ours who had lost his hands in an industrial accident had a converted one, a leather cup version so he could stick a stub in it to steer his car. A truly amazing man and the best steel (Hawaiian) guitar player I ever heard.

Pat