Extra Step Makes Access Easier

Extra Step Makes Access Easier TRACTORS Accessories 25-1-9 Any modification that makes farms work easier, regardless of how simple, is welcome on Dan Capiuk's Barrhead, Alberta farm. Like any farmer, he's in and out of his tractor cab a lot and it occurred to him that having to stretch and lift his leg up so high each and every time he climbed up the steps was an unnecessary drain of energy. To combat the problem, he removed a piece of the step from another tractor in the scrap yard, found some flat iron he used for side plates, and added one more step at the bottom of his existing tractor steps. "It just makes for easier access," Capiuk says. "It does limit where you can drive with the tractor, though, because the bottom step is only about one and a half feet off the ground. This wasn't a problem for me though, because I wasn't using this tractor for the kind of jobs where the ground is too uneven." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dan Capiuk, Rt. 3, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada T7N 1N4 (ph 780 674-3007).

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