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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 1:58pm |
I'd love to see photos of what you all have come up with to store your tools on your tractors. The B/C/CA toolbox won't hold many of the items I'd like to have with me when I'm tinkering around the farm. I've got something in mind that would mount similar to how the side engine weights mount, but I thought I'd see what all you guys have come up with first. Thanks in advance.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 2:39pm |
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The old guy behind me has a box on the side of his B like what you're thinking about. It works great for him, even enough room for his chainsaw and gas can.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 4:56pm |
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This is an excellent topic. I want to do the same on all my equipment. I hate running to get basic tools all the time. What a waste of time and energy. Pics of successful ideas would be great.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 5:18pm |
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I've often thought about making a rock box for the front of the CA to mount in the cultivator bracket. You could haul log chain and a lot of other stuff and have a front adjustable weight if you need it.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 5:37pm |
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Dad mounted old ammo boxes on about everything. The Hugger and the 8000 flexhead have them as well.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 5:43pm |
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I carry a sparkplug wrench one sparkplug a slip joint pliers, cresent wrench . screw driver and a hammer. all fits in the tool box. I have the same thing in each tractor. to get a big enough hammer to be any use on the C and CA I had to cut a couple inches off the handle.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 5:51pm |
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dad built a a box about 3 inches deep and fastened the new seat cushion on to on our C it works good for lots of small items
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 6:48pm |
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I've got the same tool box, like on the Wd-45 and D-series mounted on the front cultivator bosses on the CA...
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 6:48pm |
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Ammo box behind the right side hydraulic controls on a D17 IV
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 7:27pm |
I know that tool boxes are a very practical thing to have, and probably a bare necessity, but I have a problem with them giving a tractor an "unrefined" look. Maybe I'm too fussy. Darrel
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 8:35pm |
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Yeah, ammo boxes are common, but I'm thinking more along the lines of what Lonnie described. Maybe not big enough for a chain saw, but at least some limb loppers, an axe, hand saw, sledge, etc. Darrel, I know what you mean... I plan to make it easy to remove when not needed or when I want the tractor to look original.
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 10:43pm |
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pics....pics....more pics...I WANNA SEE PICS!!!
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 11:30pm |
 Unit3 wrote:
Dad mounted old ammo boxes on about everything. The Hugger and the 8000 flexhead have them as well. |
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Edited by 427435 - 21 Jan 2012 at 11:31pm
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Posted: 21 Jan 2012 at 11:46pm |
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My MF-135 with flat topped fenders came with a removable tool box mounted on the right fender top. When it rusted through, I found a box with the same mount at Central Tractor (now Valu-bilt). I don't find that box there today, but they have three varriations on a mountable box, one painted blue, one in primer and one painted AC orange for D series tractors they say.
The weight of the tools was hard on the fender and its mounts when working ground with plow and disk and broke fender braces to make the fender wobbly. I've since used the mounts for planter monitor or for sprayer controls and don't get out of sight of the machine shed and quit carrying tools on the tractor. When planting I might toss some in an insecticide box of the planter since I'm not using those.
Had there been a side rail on the MF-135 it would have been a better place for a tool box, though the box would get more mud tossed it from the tires there than on top the fender. Many a working tractor without cab has a tool box on one or the other side rail.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 7:01am |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 7:03am |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 7:06am |
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There are two pics for you, the one on the 45 is sitting on 2 L brackets.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 7:15am |
Water proof ammo box. 
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 9:14am |
This is one that came on my 190XT it also had the orignal infront of the fuel tank and under the seat
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 9:40am |
I purchased an inexpensive tool box from an on line source, Ag Supply, I think, and mounted on the outside of the right side fender of my model C. Nice thing the supplied brackets can be mounted with the existing fender bolts. A second could be added on the other side if necessary.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 9:41am |
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Old type mail box that the top opens work great big enough for book of wrenches and top has slant so dirt slides off and rain out
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 10:53am |
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I keep a wheel wrench and handle, hammer, channel lock pliers, 10 inch crecent wrench, 3/4 combination wrench, 9/16 combination wrench, multitip screwdriver, and several large plastic wire ties in my tractor tool boxes, plus an extra drawbar pin. I also have anything that the particular tractor may need, such as an extra spark plug and wrench if it has a tendency to foul a plug now and then. This will usually fit in the standard tool box.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 5:51pm |
Pulled the G in today, to do some brake maintenance and carb work on her.
The previous owner put this toolbox on, with brackets coming from the bottom of the gas tank, and the PTO cover. Works great.
Thought about your post Murph, and snapped a quick picture.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2012 at 5:54pm |
Here's storage space being used under a B seat. It can be improved a bit, but the idea's pretty good.
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Posted: 23 Jan 2012 at 7:59am |
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Posted: 23 Jan 2012 at 11:30am |
We had a C that I had put two old grain binder tool boxes on and then used a seat cushion from a John Deere to sit on , fit real nice. With those tool boxes you also had a can holder. On the D series there is a style of tool box that has a mounting rail that bolts to the side rail and you pull a pin from inside the tool box to remove. Works nice when you need more tools to fix the equipment. Sorry, no pictures.
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Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 9:41pm |
Thanks for all the input guys. Here's what I came up with. It's not real pretty, but it does everything I need it to, and it's easy to remove.
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Posted: 06 May 2012 at 1:20pm |
And I added this orange ammo-box style plastic tool box from Northern Tool yesterday. Not the perfect shade of orange, but close enough... it's probably more correct than the whole tractor was painted. It was less than $12 shipped to the store. I had to add a cut out to clear the hydraulic port.
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Posted: 06 May 2012 at 7:13pm |
Oh no, how you gonna hook up the remote cylinder now 
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