Toolbox Schmoolbox

[glennmac]

There are many and ever-recurring threads here about how to fit up a tractor with a toolbox. All these threads miss the obvious: you don't need a toolbox on a tractor. I've proved it. Owned a tractor for two years and never needed a tool for any reason.

Here are the specifics for the newbies and the skeptics:

1. If you get a Kubota, they never break on their own. So you never need a tool to fix them.
2. If you accidently engage in one of the few practices that can break a Kubota--such as driving it into a larger Kubota--you call the dealer. That's why god invented dealers.
3. If you own a non-Kubota plastic tractor that does break a lot for unknown and mysterious reasons, see #2 above.
4. If you want to engage in a project that requires tools, you call a carpenter, electrician, mason, plumber, welder, or contractor. That's why god invented these people.
5. If you can't afford a carpenter, electrician, mason, plumber, welder, or contractor to do the project--simply forget it. Just lie on the couch, get some potato chips and beer, turn on the tv or log on to TBN--and forget it. The desire to do the project, like all things, will eventually pass away.

This approach to tractors and life has always served me well, and is certainly easier than worrying about irrelevancies like toolboxes.

 

[s1120]

<font color=red>If you can't afford a carpenter, electrician, mason, plumber, welder, or contractor to do the project--simply forget it. Just lie on the couch, get some potato chips and beer, turn on the tv or log on to TBN--and forget it. The desire to do the project, like all things, will eventually pass away.</font color=red>

Words I live by./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Harv]

Never know which way your keen mind is going to turn next, Glenn. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

While it's true that I've never used the tools in my tractor-attached toolbox for repairing my 'Bota in the field, I have definitely used them to help things along a little:

1. When you can't afford a box blade with fancy-shmancy hydraulic rippers, a big hammer goes a long way towards loosening them up for adjustment sometimes.
2. When you're at the end of the south forty and find the barbed wire fence needs a minor repair, some hefty pliers and a wire cutter can sure come in handy.
3. When you come across a situation where a length of chain could be of service, it's nice to have an assortment of hooks, links and thingamajigs with you (along with the chains themselves, of course).
4. If you're as adept as I am with all of the above, a small to medium-sized first aid kit is indispensable.
5. As for god's inventions, I'm still waiting for him to clean up all the rocks he left around at my place when he was done.

 

[Inspector507]

You're supposed to put TOOLS in there???
I keep various pins and clips in there more than anything else. I lose so many off my mower deck backing in under the fruit trees, I now have learned to put the pin or clip on and then run a little wire around it to keep it from flipping off. I lost one, one evening, and when I raised the deck to go over a wet spot, one of the wheels fell off the deck. Yes, you guessed it, I ran over the darned thing. Ever see what remains from a clash between a tire and a mower deck?
Needless to say, I bought a new tire and tube.

 

[TonyC]

<font color=blue>Toolbox Schmoolbox

fancy-shmancy hydraulic rippers</font color=blue>

I think we need to ask Muhammad to start a pig latin forum! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[RobS]

I've gotta agree with you Glenn except I'll substitute John Deere for Kubota. Same reasoning though.

My other reason for not needing a tool box is that my central supply of tools will never be more than 500 feet away once we move. On the odd chance that I do need a tool I get a nice tractor ride or a much needed bit of excercize. Either way, it's not a big deal. About the only thing I could want on my tractor now is a decent place to keep a pair of work gloves. Perhaps a glove compartment /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[bgott]

4. If you want to engage in a project that requires tools, you call a carpenter, electrician, mason, plumber, welder, or contractor. That's why god invented these people.

Or a wrecker driver.

 

[tc35dforme]

bgott,

are you mudslinging...like when your tractor is stuck !!??!!

 

[glennmac]

I must admit that I fully agree with carrying a variety of pins and clips. I have had just about every one on my tractor, loader, and 3ph ripped off and lost during brush hogging, more than once......... I also have a flat mesh bag attached to the back of my tractor seat. I carry gloves and safety glasses and a few odds and ends in there. Since the bag will not protect the gloves against rain, I usually put my gloves on the bottom of the steering wheel when I am finished with the tractor for the day, and tip my seat so it covers the gloves. That seems to work......A cupholder is an absolute necessity. I use an adjustable Spillmaster on my right fender, so I sit on the tractor and sip bevages instead of picking up that log or big rock...........And the piece de resistance: I have purple Woodstock bumper stickers pasted vertically on both sides of my ROPS. (I sent Woodstock, the TBN member a pair, and then he seemed to disappear.)

 

[Boondox]

<font color=blue>I also have a flat mesh bag attached to the back of my tractor seat</font color=blue>

Interesting idea! I'm constantly losing gloves and having the dogs return them half chewed up!

Pete