Recent content by BillCroasmun

The other thread on the capabilities of a PT as a fork lift made me wonder how much difference there is between the 425 vs the 1430 on the lawns (imprinting, rutting, etc). By spec the PT website says the 425 weighs in at 1387 lbs and the 1420 at 2560 lbs. I'm guessing those are dry weights...

Hi Aaron, The kind of wagon I was talking about was one with bigger tires like this: I wouldn't think pulling that would rut more than the PT carrying a 700# load directly but I'm no expert either. My thought also was the better the ground conditions the more you could take in a single trip...

Well after several years of reading on here about others building homes for there tractors it is now my turn. :) I need to replace one of those Harbor Freight portable garages that pretty much desinegrated after it's third season. Held up great at first but once the material started to "thin" it...

Not wanting to hijack Bobs Boom thread I figured I'd reply to one of his messages here as a start to this one... I've looked at some small electric saws like this 12" Remington. This one is 1.5 HP. 1 HP equals 746 Watts so it would be about 1200 Watts. I have to check but I think my inverter...

Couldn't find the post where someone asked for a picture of my mower deck so I figured I'd start a new thread. This is the underside. It's a lot like the rough cut with a center bar connected to a spindle and then two short blades attach to the ends.

I have a friend who wants to put a PT stump grinder on his Bobcat 542B. The Bobcat specs are 8 GPM @ 1,575 PSI ( specs here). The 180 specs are 8 GPM @ 2,000 while the 4xx series is 8 GPM @ 2,500. Seems odd to me that the 180 specs seem like a closer match to his Bobcat. My question is...

Never noticed this before so I thought I'd ask. I was snowplowing with my 180 after dark about a week ago. When backing up to park it I saw my muffler was a nice cherry red! This was the first I ran it after dark and it was also very cold that night so maybe that just made it stand out but...

Just thought I'd share some work I am about to do on the PT180 over the next week or two. Bought a solar trickle charger from Harbor Freight (currently $13 on sale) and a cigarette plug from Wal-mart (Don't remember the price). I will be mounting the cigarette plug somewhere under the console...

Thanks Beechwood! I took your suggestion and checked my lines and sure enough, the opening where the lines exit from inside the console to go to the arms are cutting into the lines pretty good. Their doesn't seem to be any damage from there forward to the cylinders. Now I am wondering how...

I brought my driveway up next to the garage and the back corner of the fill is tapered off about 3' out for a 3' drop. I want to clean this up and minimize the dirt washing out. (picture shows area during the filling process). I was looking around online for the cheapest and quickest way to...

Just wanted to share some pictures of some work I did a few Saturdays ago. I mentioned what I did earlier in this thread here. But I'll recap along the way here... In this one you'll see the 15 tons of fill dirt and 10 tons of slag I had delivered to the house.

Thought I'd share this story for those interested. One of the things I have been wanting to do with the 180 is to fabricate some kind of trencher bucket attachment to help clear out a drainage ditch I have crossing the front of my property. It has been filling up with collected soot and grass...

Well I decided to make a FOPS for my 180. I saw PT has a 425 ROPS for sell on their used site for $125 but it is on the northeast side of New York and would be more than I want to spend with shipping. I am only trying to make a FOPS not a ROPS so it doesn't need to be too beefy. This is my...

Yesterday I cut a 45" wide (bucket width), 30' long side walk into the front yard. I am not doing anything fancy just going to fill it with slag, level it and place some 16"x16" walking stones on top... Just things I have around without spending any $$$. I tried to dig it about 4" deep...

I have a bank behind the house that drops down over ten feet. I want to make this friendly to walk up and down for family members of all ages. I am thinking about a 6" rise with a 22" run for the steps. I'll attach a cut away drawing of what the bank looks like and what I want to do with it...