loader boom safety brace
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:11 pm
Ok. I know it's feast or famine with me posting. But my latest project:
Needing to get in under the bucket to work on the new front bumper, it reminded me of an important part of my loader build that was incomplete:. I had no official safety brace for working under the loader bucket.
So on Saturday I grabbed a piece of pipe and whipped one up. It wraps around the ram, and has thick leather pads to protect the chrome on the ram. It stays in place by gravity, but I added an extra Iocking pin as a failsafe.
I got it painted and added an attention flag last night, so here it is installed.
I don't ever want to forget it's installed, so if done a few things as reminders:
It's painted a color that just looks WRONG:. Deere green.
And I took the hairpin that secures the locking pin and made it into a keychain, and put the ignition key on that keychain. So with it properly installed, the ignition key is missing.
Lastly I put a bright red reminder flag on it, to be left laying in the driver's seat.
Surely those 3 things will help me not forget to remove it before operation.
Bob
Needing to get in under the bucket to work on the new front bumper, it reminded me of an important part of my loader build that was incomplete:. I had no official safety brace for working under the loader bucket.
So on Saturday I grabbed a piece of pipe and whipped one up. It wraps around the ram, and has thick leather pads to protect the chrome on the ram. It stays in place by gravity, but I added an extra Iocking pin as a failsafe.
I got it painted and added an attention flag last night, so here it is installed.
I don't ever want to forget it's installed, so if done a few things as reminders:
It's painted a color that just looks WRONG:. Deere green.
And I took the hairpin that secures the locking pin and made it into a keychain, and put the ignition key on that keychain. So with it properly installed, the ignition key is missing.
Lastly I put a bright red reminder flag on it, to be left laying in the driver's seat.
Surely those 3 things will help me not forget to remove it before operation.
Bob