Canopy Under Canopy Accessory Bar PT425

[smartguyz]

You guys crack me up!

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-Rob /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MossRoad]

3 more pictures, tonight. I drilled and tapped the accessory bar for 1/4-20 bolts and mounted two lights facing forward. Went pretty easy. 1/4-20 tap was $5.00 and 13/16 drill bit was $2.00. Headlights were about $10.00 a poke and Auto Zone last year, as I recall.

1st picture is from the driver's point of view. The lights are far enough up that they will not even be close to blocking my view to about 20 degrees above the horizon. What I really like about the PT425 is while it is only about 5'6" tall at the canopy, my head doesn't feel squished when sitting under the canopy thanks to the low operators position. I still have ample headroom. You can also see in this picture the switch box that I made. It is not mounted yet, just wedged in there for me to get an idea of how it will look and be located. I won't mount it until I find a suitable rear-view mirror and a 12V outlet.

 

[MossRoad]

2nd picture is from a little behind the operator's seat, showing the relationship between the console, steering wheel, joystick , ROPS, canopy and new lights.

 

[MossRoad]

3rd and final picture for the evening is from the front. Kind of grainy and dark, but it gives you a look at all 4 headlights from the front. I'll takee better pictures as the project progresses.

 

[pajoube]

Looken Good,
Ever notice your hand positions while operating?
For me its the left hand on the spinner and the right hand is clamped around the ROPS right hand side bar, about even with the steering wheel. Stays there unless I need to use the joy stick. For many of the photos shown by others they have about the same hand positions based on the wear pattern.
PJ

 

[MossRoad]

Yep. I usually steer left handed and keep my right elbow on the arm rest with my right hand on my right thigh unless I'm using the loader arms for something. Our land is pretty flat but our farm property is hilly and I use the ROPS quite a bit for a handhold there. I find it very comfortable and reassuring to have a hand on the ROPs. That's why I'm considering running the wiring tube down the left side of the ROPs now instead of the right.

Funny thing about steering with my left hand and operating the joystick with my right... I'm left handed but right eye dominant. I write left handed, eat left handed, drink right handed and shoot rifle and pistol right handed. But when I pick up a bow and arrow, I naturally want to pull with my left hand(all strength activities naturally go to my left hand), and point it with my right hand/eye. But I can't aim with my left eye... therefore, I'm a horrible shot with a bow and arrow /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. I need to get an eyepatch or something for my right eye.

The joystick seems very natural to me right handed and I've always steered left handed because all of our cars had stick shift when I was a kid. I had my very right handed 15 year old nephew on the PT a few weeks ago and he could not steer with his left hand and operate the joystick with his right. He kept having to stop, move the joystick, stop grab the steering wheel, stop, grab the joystick.... It was very interesting to watch. I don't remember ever having that problem because of the left handed right eyed thing I have.

I can also write backwards with my left hand. I can't write with my right hand, unless I hold two pens, one in my left and one in my right. Then I can write backwards with the left hand and forwards with the right hand at the same time. My brain is wired kind of strange, but I think you folks here at TBN are probably catching on to that by now! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Schultz]

Like you I'm left handed, but also do many things right handed. Everything is set up for those darned right handers, even dumb little things like a tape measures, haven't found a left handed one yet.

Anyway, I can shoot a bow right or left handed with equal accuracy but if I do it right handed and I'm wearing my glasses, I put a piece of scotch tape over the left lense (dominate eye). It tricks your senses and the right eye becomes dominant so I can aim and keep both eyes open. Something to try if you wear glasses.
Tim

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> I put a piece of scotch tape over the left lense (dominate eye). It tricks your senses and the right eye becomes dominant so I can aim and keep both eyes open. Something to try if you wear glasses. </font>

I do wear glasses. Thanks, Tim! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[pajoube]

I forgot that you had armrests, do you use them very often or pull them up?
I am usually operating at full speed. After dumping a load of dirt its high speed back to the site. Holdiing on to the ROPS bar keeps me somewhat in one position.
PJ

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

<font color="red"> My brain is wired kind of strange </font>

Prerequisite for PT ownership, isn't it? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif