TC40D cup holder

[5030]

Horstuff:

What in the heck do you need a cupholder on a tractor for?? I beginning to think you CUT folks equate a tractor to your SUV.

I can see a toolbox, but not a cupholder.

I like you signature picture too. Don't work with Percherons though. Got to use stocks. No cupholder on those either. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[PineRidge]

<font color="blue"> Pineridge and Mark... No fair cheating and takin' stuff out of your add-on boxes. </font>

Mark I think Jim figured out that you and I could win this contest hands down, so the disclaimers are now being added. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Daryl no it doesn't qualify as the family SUV but the cup holder has a very important role in the scheme of things. Mine carries massive quantities of coffee. I just cant get enough of the stuff and mine is without the caffeine. (low test stuff) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

My deep cup-holder also doubles for holding a can of wasp spray. Them critters have an uncanny way of building a nest on most of my implements stored outside just when you need the implement the most. It makes hooking them up a lot less painful for me, not for them. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[5030]

Mike:

I found that out the hard way. The "jackets" lit me up when I was working on the MoCo last week. My hand got larger than my forearm and hurt like hell too.

I confess, I do have a cup holder in the 5030 too. It's right next to the cigar lighter and I keep a pack of Camels in it. I don't smoke in the cab. I get out and take a smoke break occasionally. I have a little 12 volt cooler I keep on the floor with pop in it. Lastly, I keep my automatic pistol in the tool box behind the seat for the unexpected wild dog or coyote in the hay field. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[TMAC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">(
I feel a photo-essay coming on here...
Maybe we could all empty out our "factory" toolboxes, put the contents on the operator's platform, and take a picture. The guy with the most useless stuff in there wins. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
)</font>

Well Jim you said it. Here's the stuff I've accumulated so far. First pic of the "toolbox" lid open. Second pic of the contents laid out on the operators platform. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[TMAC]

Second pic with the contents laid out. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[jinman]

Greg, you have entirely too much time on your hands. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
It's gonna take me a while to get around to posting a picture, and I guarantee you my "stuff" won't be nearly as pretty and new as yours is. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[TMAC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Greg, you have entirely too much time on your hands. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif)</font>

That's my benefit of working 2nd shift I guess. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I don't sleep in til 10:00am - 11:00am like a few of my relatives do. I get up at 7:30am and get stuff done. Go to work and have access to the Internet at work so during my breaks I eat whatever and check out a few posts. Life is good right now and I hope it never gets to much worse. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Jim I want to see how many pounds of dirt you got in the bottom of your box as well along with your tools and things. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Speaking of dirt, just for proof that she's been muddy already, I filled the wheel wells full of mud last Sunday and Monday. You guessed it though I brought her home and sprayed her off. I have to get a culvert put in that drainage ditch otherwise every time I go out to work on the property I'll be cakin the rims full of mud. I don't mind getting her dirty, it is a tractor, but pulling clumps of mud out of the rims is getting a little old already especially on those pretty white rims. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jinman]

Well, here's a picture of my box with the lid open. Looks pretty normal. Nuthin' special about this. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[jinman]

Holy smoke! How'd he get all that stuff in there? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Must be all my experience packing a seabag during my years in the U.S. Navy. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The very dirty white towel at the top goes into the bottom of the toolbox to stop rattles. It really does help. Why I carry my PTO dust cover in the toolbox is beyond me. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I should put it on the PTO or put it somewhere else. It' performing no useful purpose in the toolbox.

Okay, anyone have more stuff (spelled j-u-n-k) in their tiny toolbox? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[techinNY]

Jinman, do you have a different draw pin for each attachment? I am not picture capable but I carry a clevis, short 3/8' chain with a grab hook on either end, 4 lynch pins (2 for use and 2 for extra in case of loosing one), a spacer for the top link of my post hole digger (it is cat. II), and I think thats it. OH, wait a minute! A mechanic with no tools in the tool box of the tractor! OOPS, it's a NH! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( do you have a different draw pin for each attachment? )</font>

Naw! I just use them for rear ballast. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Okay, you caught me. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif I actually have a boxblade that uses three drawpins. The original ones it had didn't have pull-rings for removal, so I replaced them with new ones. I keep my implements about 200' from my barn, so I just tossed the old pins in there and then never removed them. Repeat this story for all the other "useless" paraphernalia and you see why I have an overloaded toolbox. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I do keep a busted screwdriver in the toolbox for removing busted shearpins. I use it to drive out the old pin by putting it in the hole and hitting it with with a Crescent Hammer. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[techinNY]

Cresent hammer, is that like a pry driver? It is amazing the ways we improvise to get the job done.