TC18 Add-Ons

[JimBinMI]

Club Blue,

Didn't want to call this enhancements like MarkC due to the fact that you can't enhance perfection! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Those orange guys definitely need to enhance those things! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

I removed my rear wheels and transported them to my dad's house this afternoon, he'll take them to my dealer in the a.m. and the "Rim Guard" aka: "Beet Juice" will be flowing into them before lunch.

After I got home, I mounted the rear flood light that I've had for awhile and didn't get around to mounting, figured I better get it mounted for evening snow removal...wishful thinking. We have been getting flurries but nothing accumulating yet. I used a bracket to mount the flood light that my dad made for me, I used an existing ROPs bolt to attach it and an existing aux. wire for power. The light has its own on/off button and when on, comes on with the headlights. I'll have to adjust the beam when I get my tires back, mounted and I should be all set for snow with extra weight in the rear tires and a light to see what I'm doing.

Went to the Curtis Cab Systems website and thought they looked pretty cool until I found out they don't have one for the TC18/21?????????? They do however, list them for the JD4100 and the Kubota B7300/1700/2100/2400. Don't know that I'd buy one but they sure make things look warm! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

JimBinMI

 

[Thomas]

Jim,
Winter is just like taxes and it shall be coming. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Jim if you really want to play in the snow w/ your TC18 come on over here,/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif and your hour metter will click and click. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Hope you didn't get the motion detection lighting made by Levtion.
If you get big snow flakes or a bat flies by the sensor etc.. the darn light comes on,/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gifbut it does have a by pass switch. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

You must be glad its a short school week, /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif and maybe you can get some tractor time??? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[JimBinMI]

Thomas,

Finally have a white blanket on the ground, this is lake effect snow but we might get up to 5 inches by morning.

Won't get my rear tires back until Thanksgiving so I can't play in the snow! By Thanksgiving the temp is supposed to be back up in the 40's and it'll all melt away...darn it!

Yes, I'm ready for this short work week! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

JimBinMI

 

[RickB]

Check with your dealer about a soft cab for your TC. We have installed 2 or 3 on 18's and 21's. I wasn't directly involved and don't know the manufacturer. It may well have been NH, I don't think they were Sims or Curtis. They have a fiberglass roof, glass windshield, and soft sides & doors.

 

[JimBinMI]

RickB,

Like I said, don't know that I'd buy one but they sure look warm! Thanks for the information, for now I'll probably just bundle up good and do the deed!

JimBinMI

 

[Bigfinn]

JimBinMi,
Just thought I'd let you know since your Boomer is temporarily parked that moving snow is a blast! Last Thursday we had a whopping 3/4" and yep, before I went to work that morning I fired up the TC 29. Had so much fun I was a half hour late for work. I could have shoveled it in 15 minutes, but what fun would that be? So just pray it only snows on the weekends /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif The neighbors now have proof...

 

[RobS]

Lake effect eh Jim? You must be somewhere near me. I blew off 8 inches of the lake induced white stuff with my little tractor this morning (Craftsman lawn tractor with blower). Looking forward to enough snow to get the big one out, though no blower for it yet. We're in the South Bend area. You?

Rob

 

[JimBinMI]

RobS,

I'm just east of Battle Creek, MI. The major snow from lake effect hits west of US-131, but we always get some of it. A co-worker of mine lives near Mattawan, west of Kalamazoo, he had over 5 inches when he left home on Monday morning. I awoke to about 6 inches of snow this morning and NO SCHOOL!!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif They are calling for another 3"+ today.

Too bad that my rear tractor tires are 35 miles away at my dealer's getting rim guard added, won't pick them up until I go to my parents on Thanksgiving! /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Now where did I put that old JD paddle snowthrower?????????

JimBinMI

 

[RobS]

Great area Jim. I have a couple of good friends up that way and have enjoyed Fort Custer bike trails several times. Did you by chance get your Blue Rig at the dealer in Schoolcraft? I shopped there for both Blue and Orange before I bought Green in Union, MI. I'm sure we'll have plenty more snow for you to "play" in before we see the sun again. Have fun.

Rob

 

[JimBinMI]

RobS,

I bought my TC18 at Bates Ford Tractor in Coldwater, MI. Coldwater is my home town and the owner of Bates is my brother's neighbor...feel I got a good deal and the service/information before and after the sale have been great! I didn't price Schoolcraft but was aware of them. I priced a New Holland/Kubota dealer south of Lansing I think in Potterville...he was much higher than my dealer, also had to educate him on the fact that he could sell me a TC18 cheaper than a B1700 and that the TC18 would do more. He had a confused look on his face when I left, guess he hadn't run across informed customers before! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

I looked at the JD4100 and was even partial to it for awhile, until the tractor cupid shot his BLUE arrow at me!

JimBinMI