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H, SH, M, SM Parking Brake Lock Lever

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Red Mist

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Howdy, boys:
I bought an OEM parking brake lock lever for the ol' super H a couple of years ago. Finally got around to painting and installing it last week. What a convenience! No more bending over my own belly to set the brake latch. Really nice accessory.
Funny, though. In the catalog they erroneously refer to it as a brake [i:2271da74d2][b:2271da74d2]release[/b:2271da74d2][/i:2271da74d2]. It is not a release. You release the brakes by pressing the brake pedals - just as you would without the accessory.
It is well made, fit well and the base bracket is held in place with one deck bolt. Yes - I did have to grind the tip of the lever in order to get a perfect fit. That took about 10 seconds on the bench grinder. I highly recommend..... unless you are young, skinny and short - in which case, you won't need it.
mike
 
Mike - I'll second that!

I installed one several years ago on my Super M. Liked it so much I immediately bought another to put on my Super H.

Only oddity is on the SM you pull the rod to set the latch; for the SH you must PUSH the rod.

But they work great on both tractors. Makes it MUCH more convenient to safely set the brakes - particularly when all bundled in Carhartt winter wear!
 
I have an MTA with a foot operated parking brake. It is a rod that runs across the floor in front of the operator. Has a bend at either end. If you push on the brake pedal and step on the left side bend, the right side bend comes upward and catches the parking brake. Step on the pedal again and gravity releases it. Elderly man sold me the tractor was into the shows and said he had never seen one like it. Been to a few shows and neither have I. Often wondered about it.
 
I have seen one kinda like Daves. I would like to see the one that OEM sells. It may be the only thing I ever buy from them!
 
BTW I am young, short, and skinny and I still don't like the setup! You can never press the brakes hard enough and pull the lever at the same time when you are all bent over.
When I trailer the tractor I press the brake while another person locks them.
 
Have been driving Hs and Ms for over 60 years and never noticed brake realease being hard to reach until few years ago, something must have changed about them could not be me that changed.
 
I wish I had a picture to make it clearer, but on my Super H, there's a piece on the brake latch that sticks up for locking the brakes.

You push the pedals, and then rotate your foot back so your heel pushes on the piece and flips the brake latch up. It's rather clever, and something I've never seen on any other tractor.
 
THAT IS NOT A CORRECT PART!!!!


Ok, seriously, I'm young (by some standards on this board), but I'm neither short nor skinny. But I don't mind bending over to get flip that... yet. Maybe in years to come.
 
My uncles were quite the inventors. They made a lever that worked a roller that set along the fronts of both brakes. IF, your brakes were both working properly and adjusted the same, you just pulled the lever back, it forced the roller foreward, then kinda went over center and both brakes were locked.

Another uncle has one they made for his tractor. I'll try to get a pic of it.

Gene
 
(quoted from post at 10:36:13 12/15/09) I wish I had a picture to make it clearer, but on my Super H, there's a piece on the brake latch that sticks up for locking the brakes.

You push the pedals, and then rotate your foot back so your heel pushes on the piece and flips the brake latch up. It's rather clever, and something I've never seen on any other tractor.
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I am familiar with that one. Dad had one on his H for a short while but no one ever seemed to be able to depress the brake pedal and then work that little lever all at the same time with same foot, so it got replaced with the lever and rod style.
 
Mike - On my Super H it's not too difficult to simply bend down and flip the latch. However the operator's station geometry is enough different on an SM that it's nearly impossible for me to hold any pressure on the pedals and reach/lift the latch at the same time - especially when stopped on a hill with two wagons hitched behind. (And I'm relatively wiry too, as John T can attest...!)
 
Once you have had your brakes release because the "Lever/mechanism" has not completly locked the metal stopper into the notches in the left brake pedal, you will never use one again!

Fortunately, I was still on the corn picker when they released!
 
NDS, ever heard of global warming? Well what you're experiencing with the brake lock is what is known as "global gravity". It struck me about 5 years ago but just finally figured out what it was recently. Remember how when you were 6 or 7 it didn't hurt to fall down but now it ddoes? Well that is also due to "Global Gravity"

"Global gravity" is much more serious than global warming but just hasn't had the press the gw has but I'm tring to do my best. Hopfully, if I work it right I hope to make millions of $$, just like Al Gore did with global warming & the invention of the internet.

If anyone would like to make a contribution in the name of "global gravity" please e-mail & I'll tell you where to send the check. Any amount will gladly be accepted but I really would prefer cash in $1,000 increments

:~))))))))))
 
You all are making it too complicated. simply weld a short bolt on top of the latch plate close to the front. When you want to latch the brakes just push your heel down on it. to release just step on the brakes. Been using that set up for years.
 
(quoted from post at 20:38:32 12/15/09) You all are making it too complicated. simply weld a short bolt on top of the latch plate close to the front. When you want to latch the brakes just push your heel down on it. to release just step on the brakes. Been using that set up for years.
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I don't think I'm making it too complicated. I am pleased with what I have and how it works.
mike
 
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