"Bedsheet" Tractor Canopy

Bedsheet Tractor Canopy TRACTORS Made-It-Myself If you’re looking for a low-cost summertime tractor shade you might want to consider this inexpensive way of making your own says Mark Schecterson of Heron Mont He used an old bed sheet and some woven wire fencing to cover his 2009 Kubota B3200 HSD 4-WD loader tractor The canopy measures 3 ft square and mounts on the tractor’s rollbar “It’s basically a bed sheet over a piece of 2-in sq fence panel It works great and keeps me shaded from the hot sun ” says Schecterson “It was my wife Dyan’s idea to use fence wire to make a frame to support the sheet We constructed it together ” He cut the wire down to 4 ft wide by 5 ft long and wrapped it around the back of the rollbar then rolled up the bottom edges of the wire on both sides to give the wire some rigidity He tied the wire onto the rollbar and then bent it forward about 3 ft over the driver’s seat He laid the sheet over the top of the wire tying the front part into the wire and tying the back part to the rollbar “It looks a little like grandma’s pantaloons but it does the job ” says Schecterson “Putting the bend in the roll of wire gives the metal enough rigidity to support the sheet However it’s not really solid so I have to be careful when working in the woods ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Mark Schecterson 33 Thunder Ln Heron Mont 59844 ph 406 847-5758; 1window@blackfoot net

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