Getting ready to fab up a rear mounted 3PH lever

[RIDETOEAT]

I drove through a Kioti dealer today to see how the 3 point hitch rear mounted activation lever was set up and it and the standard location lever were a maze of levers and linkages, actually kind of over engineered and complicated. Looked at mine when I got home and woah !! My kubota could not be simpler. I am just gonna get a nice lever from somewhere, likely a kubota part for some application, add a pivot point and mount to it and then a tie rod over to the original lever at about the same mechanical advantage ratio, don't look bad at all. I only want to wait for my rear hydraulic to be installed before hand so nothing runs into one another.

If anyone has done this I would really like to hear and or see pictures for ideas.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I drove through a Kioti dealer today to see how the 3 point hitch rear mounted activation lever was set up and it and the standard location lever were a maze of levers and linkages, actually kind of over engineered and complicated. Looked at mine when I got home and woah !! My kubota could not be simpler. I am just gonna get a nice lever from somewhere, likely a kubota part for some application, add a pivot point and mount to it and then a tie rod over to the original lever at about the same mechanical advantage ratio, don't look bad at all. I only want to wait for my rear hydraulic to be installed before hand so nothing runs into one another.

If anyone has done this I would really like to hear and or see pictures for ideas.

Little more clarity please on what your trying to accomplish?

 

[85Hokie]

I drove through a Kioti dealer today to see how the 3 point hitch rear mounted activation lever was set up and it and the standard location lever were a maze of levers and linkages, actually kind of over engineered and complicated. Looked at mine when I got home and woah !! My kubota could not be simpler. I am just gonna get a nice lever from somewhere, likely a kubota part for some application, add a pivot point and mount to it and then a tie rod over to the original lever at about the same mechanical advantage ratio, don't look bad at all. I only want to wait for my rear hydraulic to be installed before hand so nothing runs into one another.

If anyone has done this I would really like to hear and or see pictures for ideas.

Doug,

what are you trying to "lever" ??

 

[live_roll]

A lot of Kioti models have a "remote" handle at the rear of the tractor to adjust the 3 point heights from the rear of the machine as opposed to having to having the operator travelling back and forth from the operators area to the rear of the tractor to adjust the height while hooking up to an implement. It is a feature often used on larger cabbed tractors. usually an electric over hydraulic function.
Kioti has made this feature available although with a mechanical system on a lot of their machines It is a nice feature, and yes, it would be nice if |Kubota was to follow through with this option on their smaller platformed units.

Cheers

Roger

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Now I understand what your trying to do.
Rear remote controls for the three point control are nice when hooking up some implements, just be careful, things can shift and move and get ya, where running controls from the seat things won't reach out and bite you.

 

[Tooljunkie]

I would think about having that rear control set up in such a way it cant be activated unintentionally.like a lockout of sorts,inadvertently nudging it and causing three point to move. Or setting lever where you cant have hands in and move lever at same time.

I remember a story about a guy that insisted to use his fingers to line things up. I know he still has all his fingers, i cant understand how....

 

[sheepfarmer]

I would think about having that rear control set up in such a way it cant be activated unintentionally.like a lockout of sorts,inadvertently nudging it and causing three point to move. Or setting lever where you cant have hands in and move lever at same time.

I remember a story about a guy that insisted to use his fingers to line things up. I know he still has all his fingers, i cant understand how....

My Kubota dealer has been looking out for my safety and warned me not to use my fingers to feel for the bolt holes...good thing, I might not have realized how effectively those things would remove digits.

 

[D2Cat]

Using a finger as an alignment tool can be costly. This is a correct statement, "I might not have realized how effectively those things would remove digits."

I have a friend who is a big, stocky, physical guy who believes he's the "Bull of the Woods". He had a horse with a halter on and he put his index finger in one of the "D" rings to yank on to get the house to move as he wanted. The horse disagreed with his tugging and yanked his head the other way. His finger stayed in the "D" ring.

Similar things happen with mechanical alignments. Leave a tapered punch in your tool box to have available when you think of using your finger.

 

[sheepfarmer]

Using a finger as an alignment tool can be costly. This is a correct statement, "I might not have realized how effectively those things would remove digits."

I have a friend who is a big, stocky, physical guy who believes he's the "Bull of the Woods". He had a horse with a halter on and he put his index finger in one of the "D" rings to yank on to get the house to move as he wanted. The horse disagreed with his tugging and yanked his head the other way. His finger stayed in the "D" ring.

Similar things happen with mechanical alignments. Leave a tapered punch in your tool box to have available when you think of using your finger.

Aargh! It is a tossup as to which can be more dangerous, horses or tractors. I like the punch in the toolbox idea. That and a little flashlight to reduce temptation to feel for an alignment.

 

[RIDETOEAT]

Ya that's it, just a rear mounted control lever. Looks simple enough on my tractor. I am moving my fabrication shop tools out to the new shop in the country at the moment so won't be any progress for a month. I just wanted to post and see if anyone else has done this and see if they hit any unforeseen issues or maybe had pictures.

 

[Diydave]

Sounds like a good idea, you might want to try a short vermier control lever like those used on truck motors and boats. You would want to measure the amount of pull you need, by attaching a simple fisherman's spring scale to the hyd lever, to see what kind of force needed. Also, get a non-locking cable, and put the head in a spot that won't get hit by brush or anything else, inadvertently...

With my projects, the part is the least of my worries, it's the thinking where to mount it, so it doesn't cripple me...

 

[BAP]

Most of a larger cabbed tractors that have the electric over hydraulic switches mounted on the rear fenders for the 3 point hitch, have a safety feature built in. They are setup so that when you use the switch, the 3pt arms move at a extremely slow speed so that you have plenty of time to get out of the way. If you set up a lever operated system, design it so that it only moves the control lever a tiny amount so the arms move slow for safety.