[AT] Tractor tool box standard items.

[Doug Tallman]

We need a box bigger than the tractor!  :-)  Doug T

On 5/10/2020 12:45 PM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
> Come-along and chainsaw, plus a five gallon gas can.😜
>
> Carl
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> From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sun, 10 May 2020 11:32:42 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [AT] Tractor tool box standard items.
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> During a lifetime of farming my father and I and later my son and I built
> and installed a lot of tool boxes on a lot of tractors. Many factory tool
> boxes were kind of a joke. The one in the left step/running board of the
> new Jubilee Ford was OK for a plow wrench and maybe a few lynch-pins or a
> hitch pin but it was prone to fill with dirt and wouldn't keep anything dry.
> They built a small box in front of the base of the dash on my VAC Case that
> if you want something out of it you first spray it with wasp killer then
> drag the mouse nest out of it...
> The one on the TO-20 up under the hood in front of the fuel tank isn't too
> bad but needs to be larger.
> Those things don't matter so much these days but I do need to add some
> decent boxes to the three or so small tractors I find useful for daily use
> now. Those 3 are my TO-20 Ferguson, an 8N Ford and the VAC Case.
> Being smaller tractors it can a little harder to fit in a more useful
> toolbox.
> I have a list of things I like to always have at hand in a tractor tool
> box. The first one is a decent sized ball peen hammer. Not one of those
> tiny tappy things but at least 16 oz. or larger. You never know when you
> might just feel the need to pound the hell out of something.  :-)  I prefer
> 2 adjustable wrenches, one about 8" to 10" and one at least 12" and heavy
> for things like hitch-balls etc. I also want a very sturdy straight
> screwdriver, not something to tighten your glasses frames but something
> that will survive using often as a small crowbar or once in a while to
> actually turn a big screw. I have also been buying a lot of those fairly
> decent but low cost screwdrivers that you pull out the shaft and can flip
> bits around to have 2 straight blades and 2 Phillips blades.
> I want something in the pliers family, a common pair is OK or water-pump
> pliers or Vise-Grips. I'm pretty flexible there, for cutting wire, working
> with cotter-pins etc. On Vise-Grips see also "pounding the hell out of
> something" above.
> A place where the factories failed was log chains, at least a 12' "tractor"
> chain. What kind of fool goes out to work on a farm (or on a group tractor
> drive) without a chain.
> For me a bonus is a spot for a pair of limb loppers, an axe and a box for
> rocks.
> And don't forget a drink holder.
> What did I miss?
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