Stupid tractor tricks - part 27

Bird · Jun 24, 2001

This thread reminds me of when we lived in town with a two car garage and the other side of the front wall of the garage was my bedroom. Since I didn't trust my wife and daughters to get the cars in the right place, I got two tennis balls, punched holes through them, tied on heavy monofilament fishing line of just the right length and attached the other ends of the lines to the ceiling in the garage so that when they drove into the garage, if they stopped when the tennis ball touched the lower left corner of the windshield (right on the safety inspection sticker), the car was the right distance into the garage and even spaced correctly right and left. In fact, it was even handy for the old man./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird

SimS · Jun 24, 2001

Whoops forgot the attachment!

SimS · Jun 24, 2001

~!@#$! Cable modem Let's try this!!!

Bird · Jun 24, 2001

Hey, it worked that time; guess you just weren't holding your mouth right before./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Looks like a good idea to me.

Bird

Von · Jun 24, 2001

Well, You can't miss that!!

krpig · Jun 24, 2001

well, i might as well fess up to my best stupid tractor trick (hoping i never top this one).about 3 years ago, using a b21 to fill and level an area about 7 feet wide x 60 ft long between a building and a crick, in order to get an excavator in to dig. not being used to the hst, started down the crick bank, went for the brake, and lo and behold, someone had installed the front hydro pedal there!!! i guess you can see this coming. it seems like it takes a very long time for a tractor to fall over on its side! if it weren't fro ROPS, seat belt, and the grace of God, that could have been real ugly. the wrecker operator i called out told me we would have to drag the tractor upside down in the creek 100 yards to get it out. we figured out a way to right it w/out doing that! that experience made me just a little bit gun-shy of hst for a while.

thanks,
kevin

GO SOONERS!!!

frank_f15 · Jun 24, 2001

sim: now that is really a BIG SIGN. bet it works hey?

GlueGuy · Jun 25, 2001

I think even I would notice that! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Just for hee hee's, when I was putting Lucy away tonight, my sweetie was standing by as I drove toward the "hangar". I hadn't put the ROPS down yet, but was aware of the fact (bad memory is still fresh /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif). She pointed to the ROPS over my head and smiled. Ahhh, another disaster averted. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The GlueGuy

GlueGuy · Jun 25, 2001

Harv,

I can't quite picture that. Seems to me, that the slab would have to be _lower_ than the approach? Maybe I'm not picturing this correctly, but if the approach is lower than the slab, and you are backing in, that the ROPS would be leaning forward (away from the door)?

Hmm. Where's the edge of the slab relative to the door?

The GlueGuy

Harv · Jun 25, 2001

GlueGuy -

My description probably wasn't very clear, but my crude sketch below might help clarify. I actually made this sketch before I had a tractor. Just working off of measurements then, but it wound up being very close to my eventual reality. Instead of adding the concrete step, as illustrated, I was able to notch the door opening at the top, so the difference between dirt and slab only needed to be about an inch.

Here are the before and after pictures of the door opening. I only notched out the trim and not the header, so there was no structural loss.

Again -- the reason this works is because the top of the ROPS is significantly behind the rear axle, so it passes through the doorway before the tires climb up onto the slab.