Hydraulic-Foldout Ladder For Case IH Combine

Hydraulic-Foldout Ladder For Case IH Combine COMBINES Accessories 28-3-42 I came up with a hydraulic-foldout ladder for my Case IH 2366 combine and use it whenever I'm harvesting corn. It lets me automatically swing the ladder in or out simply by pressing a button in the cab. The ladder was originally designed to fold out manually. The driver had to step out onto a platform and reach down to pull up on a knob, then grab the ladder and swing it in or out. To make the modification, I welded a metal bracket onto the ladder and attached one end of a hydraulic cylinder to it. The other end of the cylinder hooks up to the combine frame. Then I hooked up the hydraulic hoses to the fore and aft control on the combine. I use a 6-row corn header, so I have to keep the ladder folded in during harvest so it won't knock down the next row of unharvested corn. If I had an 8-row corn header, I wouldn't have to fold the ladder in. It really works nice if I see someone coming to talk to me and they want to climb up in the cab. I just hit the button and the ladder comes out. Of course, I'm not using the fore and aft control when I don't have the bean head on. And when I do have the bean head on, I can leave the ladder folded out all the time because the bean head is much wider than my corn head. (Larry Palmby, Palmby Farms, 607 County Road 10 S.E., Dover, Minn. 55929 ph 507 932-3358)

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