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Read articles →A homestead owner documents his DIY skid-plate fabrication on a Kioti tractor in real time, tracing factory covers, cutting and bending sheet metal to extend protection around exposed hydraulic lines, fuel tank plastic, and throttle linkage. He explains exactly which vulnerable components prompted the build and critiques the factory design gaps. The project is unfinished here, so viewers wanting a complete how-to will need follow-up videos.
Posted by the Kapper Outdoors Modern Homestead channel, a hobbyist homesteader sharing hands-on DIY projects from their own property with no apparent dealer or brand affiliation.
The factory cover only protects the bottom of the fuel tank, leaving exposed plastic, hydraulic lines, electronic lines, and throttle linkage unprotected on the sides.
Exposed hydraulic lines, small electronic lines, the gas pedal linkage, and fuel tank plastic are all exposed and vulnerable to brush or debris.
He used spacers around a lock bolt so the metal would not rip when fitting the plate into place, then secured it with sheet metal screws.
