Operating a forwarding trailer/crane on a conventional tractor...

[County 764]

There cannot be much room in the 3080 for a swivel seat? have you thought about selling off one of your existing tractors and getting something better suited? even our old 5k county works great with the roof mounted crane and you can just manage to pick up logs in front of you so very handy to minimise manual handling.

[Melodeon]

Yeah, the 3080 cab certainly wasn't designed for a rotating seat.

There's room to fit one all right, but next to no leg room for the operator to stay in it while rotating it, and even less leg room when it's facing backwards.

 

It could be time to come up a decade or two in tractor technology

[County 764]

Yeah, the 3080 cab certainly wasn't designed for a rotating seat.

There's room to fit one all right, but next to no leg room for the operator to stay in it while rotating it, and even less leg room when it's facing backwards.

 

It could be time to come up a decade or two in tractor technology

 

Never! keep it old:thumbup1:, our new John Deere's will throw up countless sensor faults, but I suppose they are fast and comfortable on the road unlike the county's

[fergusonforestry]

Thanks for all the feedback folks, it's certainly giving me food for thought!

 

I tried kneeling on the seat, and while it's broadly okay, I think I'd probably be positioned a bit too far back and too high up to really comfortably use levers mounted behind the seat, and the view upwards is pretty restricted by the big overhang of the roof at the rear.

It could certainly be made to work though.

 

The fuel tank of the 3080 is mounted on top of the rear axle behind/under the cab, so converting the cab to a proper full flat floor would entail fitting another fuel tank somewhere. Not simple by any means.

 

There's certainly scope for fitting a rotating seat, but even with the seat slid all the way forward, and because the steering wheel doesn't tilt up out of the way, and the awkward fuel tank location mentioned previously (and me not being Oscar Pist..., erm, Douglas Bader), there's really nowhere for my feet to go except to stick them straight out the back window.

 

 

 

Of course, I could always go for full radio control on the crane and then I could operate it from pretty much anywhere convenient...

 

I do this sometimes