Aftermarket source for toolbox backplate?

rockyridgefarm · Dec 19, 2014

Hey all,

I sometimes grumble about high priced parts, but am usually happy they're available and pay. What I can't begin to understand is the price of the black toolbox back plate. Is there an aftermarket source for these? I have 4 or 5 toolboxes I've bought at auctions here and there, but only a couple plates. If I can't find them aftermarket, I'm gonna see about making my own...

part number T23033, BTW.

Tx Jim · Dec 19, 2014

I'll agree with you that $57.22 is high for the toolbox mounting bracket.

jd_adict · Dec 19, 2014

I have discovered that if you go to a combine
wrecking yard there is plenty of these on the older
combines. 7700 and 6600. as well as the tool box.
even other brands sometimes use the same bracket.
it also gives you a chance to look for other
goodies.. and the price is more than fair.

rockyridgefarm · Dec 19, 2014

(quoted from post at 05:02:53 12/19/14)
I'll agree with you that $57.22 is high for the toolbox mounting bracket.

Jim,

What percentage of the tractors your dealership sold also sold a toolbox and bracket, OR gave them away with a new tractor purchase?

Deere's been punching these out since at least 1973. I'm betting they've made hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. The toolboxes are still displayed and sold new at my "local" dealer, virtually unchanged since they first came out.

Try finding a bracket used... Where'd they all go??? I got one out of a neighbor's scrap pile. He bought a 4430 with it on, but no toolbox. I offered him money, but he insisted I take it. On the flip side, I've bought three toolboxes, but no brackets, at auctions.... Why keep the toolbox, but not take the bracket off the tractor? You'd think the bracket'd be easier to find, since toolboxes get smashed up and tossed.

Whew, glad I got that off my chest.

Tx Jim · Dec 19, 2014

IMHO the last new JD toolbox I saw was not as well constructed as the older toolboxes. I think nearly all if not all of the new RC tractor sold at the local dealership had toolboxes installed.

Richard in Bee · Dec 19, 2014

I went through this last spring when fixing up my 4030. Isn't the toolbox like $45 and the bracket $57?
I made my own.

sideconsole4020guy · Dec 19, 2014

I have a few brackets laying around if you want to buy them.

rockyridgefarm · Dec 19, 2014

(quoted from post at 05:47:05 12/19/14) I have discovered that if you go to a combine
wrecking yard there is plenty of these on the older
combines. 7700 and 6600. as well as the tool box.
even other brands sometimes use the same bracket.
it also gives you a chance to look for other
goodies.. and the price is more than fair.

Based on your advice, I called Franzens in Monmouth, IA. He said that he thinks the brackets are welded on. So I checked the 6620s and they indeed are. BUT, the 9500s are bolt-on. It may be worth keeping in mind next time I'm in a boneyard.

Thanks.

Sideconsole,

How you need for one?

sideconsole4020guy · Dec 19, 2014

Well I'm not sure send me an email. My email should be on.

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