OCR
Senior Member
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2008
- Messages
- 1,195
- Location
- Montana
- Occupation
- Rancher/Farmer, Wildland Fire Fighter, State snowp
Belly pan winch:
Man... you got that right... I've been trying to get something figured out just
like you suggested. We've got a JD 750c, and I doubled the thickness on the
bottom... welded 5/8 plate on both pans... afraid of putting a big ding in one
from a rock. They're heavier now... but they were too heavy to mess with
originally. I usually remove them both every year to clean them... pine needles, sticks, grass, or anything burnable; do a lot of fire work and I don't
want anything in the pans to catch on fire.
The front one isn't too bad... but the back one is horrible to get back on by
your self... and it's usually "by your self"... Just mention "belly pan", and it seems you become the only living person on earth...
I can put a bar across the c-frame and use the blade to lift the front one up
(6-way)... but the back one needs to go in at a slight angle and then up.
I think I've got a winch system figured out, and I'll explore the concept the
next time I tilt the cab.
OCR
I think there needs to be some kind of winching mechanism that works from inside the cab for the belly pans. I don't know how many hundreds of hours I've put in pulling a pan to change a hose and then jacking or stringing come alongs and chains underneath to get the thing back up
Man... you got that right... I've been trying to get something figured out just
like you suggested. We've got a JD 750c, and I doubled the thickness on the
bottom... welded 5/8 plate on both pans... afraid of putting a big ding in one
from a rock. They're heavier now... but they were too heavy to mess with
originally. I usually remove them both every year to clean them... pine needles, sticks, grass, or anything burnable; do a lot of fire work and I don't
want anything in the pans to catch on fire.
The front one isn't too bad... but the back one is horrible to get back on by
your self... and it's usually "by your self"... Just mention "belly pan", and it seems you become the only living person on earth...
I can put a bar across the c-frame and use the blade to lift the front one up
(6-way)... but the back one needs to go in at a slight angle and then up.
I think I've got a winch system figured out, and I'll explore the concept the
next time I tilt the cab.
OCR