06/10/2026
A few quiet days in the electrical workshop every now and then is required to have gear ready to fit to the buckets at final assembly.
The Cushion Hitch control box has the auto/manual, raise and lower for the hitch as well as the ripper raise/lower and the dual cross leveller tilt, extra lift and float (for Danfoss control) modes. The harness for the tilt modes runs all the way around to the rear of the bucket while the hitch and ripper are controlled by the Danfoss on the front pull of the bucket and are much shorter harnesses.
The buckets don't go out unless they go with these Cushion Hitch control boxes and all the associated harnesses and sensors with the aim to have them turn key ready when they are delivered to their new owners.
As well as all those standard bucket operations, I'm now making a direct battery-fed power relay box with an ignition switched relay for some of the big tractors that have serious noise and resistance issues when powering up things like this control box and other ancillary systems such as GPS machine control and farming implements that require clean power.
