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Broken Seat Spring.. Fact or Fiction?
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Posted by 772TAS on October 11, 2006 at 20:11:24 from (216.82.216.125):
As I was tooling around the field this past weekend on my 49H towing a trailer style shredder, I happened across a rather large log buried deep in the grass. I would guess 6 to 8 inches in diameter and 3 or 4 feet long. You know the kind where you feel the front tires hit something large as they bump up into the air, and you look to see what it is as it passes under you and by then it is to late to stop. The largest piece of the log to come out the other end couldn"t have been more than 6 inches long x 1 inch wide. I mean to tell you it really tore that log to shreds (as the name implies).
But after seeing this I started thinking about what that shredder would do to me if I happened to get under it. Here I am driving a tractor with no dead man switch and a direct drive PTO. If I fell off this thing it will keep going until it falls into the tank or hits a house, tree etc. Then I didn�t feel so comfortable sitting up there on my seat supported by a coil of steel� and that coil was shrinking as I thought about it�
Somehow, somewhere I had heard about Farmall tractor seat springs breaking. I had always attributed it to an over zealous someone wanting to sell me a new spring. So I recon the question is has anyone ever had a seat spring break or seen a broken spring or even heard of a reliable source claiming one broke? Thanks
Ken B. Marlin Texas
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