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An adult male prepares to climb the three add-on steps that lead to the cab of his JD tractor.

Add-On Tractor Steps

2 pics of red combine steps with added silver angle-iron and metal plate step bolted on with rope tied to plate of step. 1 pic the step is down to use – the other it is pulled up against the 2nd step so it is out of the way.

Added Step Plans

Pictured is an adult male preparing to transfer from the raised-up lift mast seat on to his tractor cab’s seat.

Ag Equipment Access Lifts

No Longer Produced

Extending from a pickup bed

Ajility Lift

No Longer Produced

|Two photos showing the tractor and bolted-on lift with its component parts as described.

Al Copeland’s Forklift-Style Platform Lift

||Having already steered and positioned the lift next to his combine

Bob Medd’s Portable Platform Lift

About 18 inches above the hanging step that is welded to left and right 30-degree-sloped arms is another metal pipe also welded to the arms

Break-Away Hanging Step

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Chip Petrea’s Forklift-Style Platform Lift

Standing on the lift platform

CoachLift Person Lift

Three pictures—(1) JD combine with three added fold-up stairs; (2) Case-IH combine with two added fold-up stairs; and JD combine with one added bottom stair (not fold-up).

Combine Cab-Access Stairs

Two pictures—(1) close-up of the ladder-swing mechanism attached to a combine just above its front tires; (2) full-view of the machine with ladder in out-of-way position.

Combine Power-Swing Ladder Kit

|Two photos (1) The purchased two-wheeled telescoping boom lift with outriggers; (2) the delivery end of the boom with modified bucket that houses the chair.

Dale Bronk’s Portable Chair Lift

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Don Skinner’s Tractor Chair Lifts

||Three photos (1) Adult male on the platform ready to activate the winch; (2) bottom portion of slotted lift mast showing uni-strut track and winch cable hook; (3) top portion of mast showing winch motor and wiring.

Electric-Winch Platform Lift

Pictured is the device

Extended Door Cylinder Kit

Left pic of EZ-Step Stair-Climbing Cane. Rt pic of man using EZ-Step Stair-Climbing Cane to climb into a vehicle.

EZ-Step Stair-Climbing Cane

|Two photos (1) Wheelchair on the lift platform at the truck cab driver-side door; (2) wheelchair on the lift platform elevated to a tractor or combine cab transfer height.

Flatbed Pickup Pilot Lift

Four flexible cables and eight clamps that attach the added step to the tractor three-step ladder.

Flexible Sidewall Added Step

|The operator is seen in the tractor cab

Freedom Lift

No Longer Produced

Pictured on the tractor-mounted device’s standing platform

Glide ‘n Go XR Tractor Cab Access Lift

Color rendition of Mohrman’s 7-inches-apart added steps mounted over his tractor’s existing steps (as described).

Homemade Added Tractor Steps

Before & after pics left and rt of John Deere combine with original 4 steps on left and modified with 4 additional steps - 8 total - on rt.

Homemade Additional Step Treads

Three pictures showing different styles

Homemade Cab-Access Platform with Steps

Pen drawing of a combine in black & white with a blue winch-driven lift attached consisting of 2 vertical parallel rails & a platform with handrails attached to ride up & down on the rails

Homemade Combine Maintenance Lift

Man in blue jeans brown coat and black cap standing on top of platform on large green farm equipment & holding silver chain attached to yellow step ladder that is fastened on outside of standard green steps integral to the farm equipment

Homemade Retractable Cab-Access Ladder

Orange & black lawn tractor with Homemade Small-tractor Powerlift Step bolted to it. Red car in background

Homemade Small-Tractor Powerlift Step

Color drawing of the add-on step bolted to the frame just above the lowest existing step plus drawing of how it swings up when it hits an obstacle.

Homemade Tractor Step Up

The driver’s-seat-controlled hydraulic cylinder

Hydraulically Operated Wide Steps

Hinged to the tractor’s two-tread step is the add-on two-tread step

John Deere T-Series Auto-Folding Extra Step Kit

To the right of the tractor is the sling (a torso wrap-around with straps hooked to the cables hanging down from the overhead roller track) that

Kenneth Stennett’s Stationary Sling Lift