What have you done to your Branson today?

[Slowpoke Slim]

Today's seat time consisted on mowing an half acre field about 50 miles away with some brush, lots of canes.

It also gave me an opportunity to test out the homemade loader as I just got it working this week.

I pushed it hard and everything held just fine. Found one flaw that is I can't take the radiator screen out because it will hit the cross bar to the front of the tractor. Need to figure something out on that.

Before:
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During:

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After (The pile on the right has lots of cedar logs hidden from a storm clean up):

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And journey back home:

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Love that last picture. Nice view.

 

[Cougsfan]

Wow Ptsg, you are quite that fabricator! Good looking FEL. I like the chains on your brush hog too.

 

[ptsg]

Thanks guys. :thumbsup:

We mainly use chains instead of blades. It does a better job on thicker brush, not necessarily this case, but will also handle rocks a lot better as it just skips over it. While a blade would get bent or the cutting edge would get destroyed.

Regarding the loader, I have a thread on the Built it yourself forum with a lot more pictures and details. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/401140-homemade-loader-branson-tractor.html

 

[Branson Bob]

The FEL looks awesome ptsg! Great job! Thanks for the pics too.

 

[Cougsfan]

Today I did something really stupid to my Branson! I was getting in and out of my tractor a lot, doing some tight clean-up work around my barn. I left the left-side cab door open, and went around a sharp corner with tight clearances on the right side. I was watching closely on the right side so as not to hit anything and I heard a loud "CRUNCH"! It was the door that I left open hitting a post and shattering into approximately 3 million pieces of broken glass!
Called up my dealer; $526 plus shipping. The cost of stupidity can be pretty high!! He said don't feel too bad, it happens all the time with cabbed tractors. He said that he has sold well over a dozen left-side doors and zero right side doors. Just recently one of his employees was driving a newly delivered tractor into the shop for initial servicing and he exploded the left-side door by leaving it open and it hit the service door opening. Fortunately my door frame was OK and the rubber seal (90 some additional dollars!) will be re-usable after I dug out all the broken glass bits with a screwdriver. Never again will I leave my door open!

 

[ptsg]

Ouch! That's a very expensive lesson!

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Oh man, sorry to hear that Cougs.

So far, I have been lucky, knock on wood.

 

[LouNY]

I've come close several times with the various cab tractors I run.
Especially when just moving things around, spotting wagons outside then getting a different implement to park in the back of the equipment shed.
Or when getting in and out several times working with something , much easier to leave the door open when you are getting in and out a half dozen times in 10 minutes.

 

[Citydude]

Today I did something really stupid to my Branson! I was getting in and out of my tractor a lot, doing some tight clean-up work around my barn. I left the left-side cab door open, and went around a sharp corner with tight clearances on the right side. I was watching closely on the right side so as not to hit anything and I heard a loud "CRUNCH"! It was the door that I left open hitting a post and shattering into approximately 3 million pieces of broken glass!
Called up my dealer; $526 plus shipping. The cost of stupidity can be pretty high!! He said don't feel too bad, it happens all the time with cabbed tractors. He said that he has sold well over a dozen left-side doors and zero right side doors. Just recently one of his employees was driving a newly delivered tractor into the shop for initial servicing and he exploded the left-side door by leaving it open and it hit the service door opening. Fortunately my door frame was OK and the rubber seal (90 some additional dollars!) will be re-usable after I dug out all the broken glass bits with a screwdriver. Never again will I leave my door open!

It happens....this was last week on my Kubota so the broken door syndrome doesn't care what color of tractor

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Oh man, that hurts to look at. Rotten luck. I admit I've had my door open when moving around sometimes. But I do try to stay vigilant. Now I think I will stop that practice (not the vigilant part, lol, but moving the tractor with the door open).