not sure if this is what you’r looking for… if you have any specific questions let me know…

First the width that things mount at is different then a standard cat 1 three point hitch… We have needed to get longer pins for a couple of attachments…
Then the top link location can cause the PTO shaft to contact the frame just under it
Using fixed with arms makes mounting attachments a bigger pain sometimes… although some people like that better (not me)
Attachments can off the arms if you forget to set the locks… this is a user error but is really easy to forget…

would I but it again… maybe… but I would really like to get a front end loader… this tractor would work fine with one but getting something with around 35-40 HP would be more ideal…

In reality even if I get a loader this tractor is probably staying put… it’s ugly and I like her…

Aich

good luck…

Just wanted to express my appreciation for your website. I live in NJ, and am a member of a team of individuals who travel to Malawi, Africa each summer to assist a local organization which supports orphan children. They operate “feeding centers” in very remote areas to provide food, recreation, and some education for the children. In past years we’ve constructed wooden swingsets, and last year a gravity drip irrigation system. The remote areas in which our organization works does not have electricity, and last year I had the opportunity to be at one of the centers after sundown. All activity stops. I couldn’t help but imagine how life could change with a few electric lights to continue activity into the night at these community feeding centers. I’ve just begun investigating how I might install one of two solar panels to run a few electric lights at one of the feeding centers. I’d think 200-300 watts would be more than sufficient for a pilot system, and perhaps the first time out we could begin staying with DC and utilizing DC landscape light bulbs. Don’t know yet.

Although I’m an engineer, and have done a good deal of electrical wiring, solar technology is a new venture for me, as well as DC electricity. While there seems to be a good deal of information scattered over the internet, studying you project has encouraged me to “give it a go”, and your mention of “blemished” panels was very helpful as we’re cost limited by fund raising.

I’d be very interested in hearing how the panels you’ve utilized have held up, as well as any new insights you may have that I could apply. I’m looking into the resources you list.

By the way, good luck with your IH 240. I have a similar tractor with a loader, and have spent more time, and money, than I care to admit rebuilding it. But it is a strong machine.

Paul Sigmund