[AT] Bending a hook on a spring

[John Wilkens]

You might just look for another old tractor/implement seat and bolt 
it on....maybe a better one than you have.  Old seat assemblies are 
not hard to find.
And no, I wasn't insinuating there was any weight problem!  :)    I'm 
working on a more frustrating job than you right now.....changing the 
knives on my NH baler.  Its like working upside down inside a gopher 
hole!    John


At 11:07 AM 08/06/2008, you wrote:
>Are you saying my seat spring is a heavy lift spring?  :-)
>
>The design of this seat isn't that safe, if these springs break, the
>seat tips back like a dump bed, along with the butt contained therein.
>It is limited to about a 30 degree tilt rearward, but it sure makes your
>pulse rate jump.  I was drilling soybeans in a food plot when it broke
>last month.
>
>
>
>John Wilkens wrote:
> > Len, this be a little crude but I fixed a heavy lift spring on my NH
> > haybine by welding a short "U" shaped piece of steel on the sides of
> > the last two coils.  It was to be a temporary fix but it has held
> > good for a lot of work.  Guess I'll just call it a permanent fix.   John
> >
> >
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