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Hydraulic Seat Stops Back Aches
Andy Justmann's back always hurt after a long session of mowing. "I was tired of being crouched like a frog on top of my lawn tractor for hours. I have a big lawn and I had to mow it a section at a time," he says. His solution was to make a seat for his Deere 420 that would tilt 35 degrees in either direction.
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Hydraulic Seat Stops Back Aches TRACTORS Seats 27-5-30 Andy Justmann's back always hurt after a long session of mowing. "I was tired of being crouched like a frog on top of my lawn tractor for hours. I have a big lawn and I had to mow it a section at a time," he says. His solution was to make a seat for his Deere 420 that would tilt 35 degrees in either direction.
A single hydraulic cylinder tilts the seat, powered by the garden tractor's built-in hydraulics. A simple switch controls the degree and direction of the tilt.
"There's no increased danger of tipping over," Justmann says. "And the engine cut-off switch works just the same. The only thing that's changed is the amount of time it takes me to mow the lawn. And, of course, I don't have any back pain anymore," notes Justmann.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Andy Justmann, E 323 Cobb Town Road, Waupaca, Wis. 54981 (ph 715 258-5244; fax 715 258-9195).
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