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**tractor beam** · 07-18-2010, 10:20 AM

Please show us your home brew accessories or improvements / additions you've added to your equipment, to remedy a problem or equipment short fall. Ideas such as adding a tool box or additional storage to your tractor, lighting improvements, grill guards or other protective devices. Anything that helps protect your gear, tools tractors etc, or helps get more performance out of them, or just to make things a bit confortable for us overweight, out of shape older guys! Please, no safety device modifications, or ideas that might cause injury!

Let's see your genius!

**tractor beam** · 07-18-2010, 04:36 PM

I'm always needing a chainsaw when I pull the tractor out. I used to keep the saw behind the seat, but it tore the paint up and would dull the blade. With my 430 loader, I easily came up with this solution.....

**tractor beam** · 07-18-2010, 04:43 PM

No tractors were harmed in the making of this production! I just took 2 pieces of 2X8 and routered out the portion that catches the bar, retrofit it to go into the loader brace and used existing holes to mount with screws. No more hassles and bouncing chainsaw in my back shoving me into the steering whell. Aprox time to create, 1 hour.

BelarusBulldog · 02-25-2011, 11:53 AM

OK, here is something I made to help out around the homestead. I am a welder by trade and enjoy making a repairing things, so for lifting and moving I made myself a helping hand. Has come in handy so many times, I don't know how I got along without it.

grnspot110 · 02-25-2011, 06:37 PM

Items for my JD 790: Chain box on the front, hammer & big screwdriver pockets beside the seat, grille guard, 5' quick-tach boom for the loader & 3-pt "A" frame w/receiver tube (now also has a pair of chain hooks about 1/3rd of the way down from the top link). ~~ grnspot110

**tractor beam** · 02-25-2011, 06:42 PM

Nice job on the grill guard Grnspt. Looks factory! How much you selling those for?

BelarusBulldog · 02-26-2011, 02:41 AM

Great ideas grnspot110. Good job on the fabrication and welding, looks pro! Keep up the good work .

Bamataco · 03-04-2011, 05:32 PM

I made this simple little adapter for my sleeve hitch. So that I can easily go from towing either of my trailers.

**farmertim** · 05-06-2011, 07:05 AM

This is a box blade I am making it is nearly finished, I just have to add the tyne retaining pins and dress all of the gas axe cuts and give it a coat of paint. will post new pics when it is finished.

**farmertim** · 05-06-2011, 07:11 AM

Its made with all recycled steel from my workplace except for the blades which my brother got from a mate of his (all for nothing) it has only cost me electricity so far. ;-)

Bamataco · 05-06-2011, 08:42 AM

Good job and free is the best price.

**farmertim** · 05-06-2011, 04:02 PM

Yeah, I hate to pay full price for anything.
Seeing the innovation here excites me but I don't have enough time to make them all.

I am a real scrounged and will pick up all sorts of things to fix and make new things from. We have become far too much the consumer society! And I think that the closer to the earth you get the less waste you tend to accept, any thoughts?

**tractor beam** · 05-06-2011, 08:36 PM

Absolutely. In our country.... The US, we are perhaps the greatest throw away society, that many give little thought to the waste we generate. It really bothers me though. I get the most mileage I can out of my stuff, because it helps save resources and makes a statement about who I am. The box scraper looks awesome by the way!

Bamataco · 05-07-2011, 02:13 PM

It bothers me that the way things are made today, many are made in a way that makes it very hard to fix them by your self.

**tractor beam** · 05-07-2011, 03:44 PM

Yup! I agree. They do it on purpose too.

bigdaddygb · 07-29-2011, 11:36 AM

I have a 1979 jeep cherokee 4x4 i drive my buddies all kid me cus it gets 12-13 mpg ruffly ( depends on how and where i drive) but the last time my one buddy had to have his dodge ram alternator replaced.... had to take it to the shop.....$350 later it was fixed.....i just replaced mine my self.. $70. lol

No sensors.... no dummy lights...... no problem.... gas, oil, coolant... and check the tire pressure and go.

so yes they do it on purpose... they make more money on replacement parts than on the actual car itself. That is why they don't want electric cars. there are only so many parts on them.

My motto is if it's old and runs leave it the heck alone... if it's old and broke.. FIX IT!!