davesisk
Platinum Member
Hi folks:
Well, I bought that Power-trac 1418 that was available locally to me (I posted earlier that it was a 418). This thing is great! I moved more dirt in my backyard in about an hour than I could have moved in a whole day with just a wheelbarrow and shovel.
I've got the stump grinder and power auger attachments also, and I spent about an hour or so grinding stumps. I have a question about the direction the stump grinder wheel turns. If you are standing on the right side of the tractor, the grinder wheel turns clockwise. In other words, the stump grinder throws all the wood chips toward the tractor, not out in front of it. This seems very odd to me. I expected it to throw chips (and an occasional rock!) away from the tractor (and operator!), not toward it.
This model has the older 3-pin mounting method. There's a triangle-shaped plate to which the hydraulic motor for the stump grinder is bolted to with 3 bolts. The triangle-shaped plate then connects to the lift arms with 2 pins and the tilt arm with 1 pin. I can't see a way to mount the whole thing upside-down so that the wood chips would shoot away from the tractor. It does look like I could take the hydraulic motor off the triangular plate and re-mount it on the plate "upside-down". I'm actually wondering if it has been taken off before, then re-mounted upside-down, thus the wrong spin direction.
Can anyone tell me if (when looking at the tractor from the right side), the stump grinder wheel should be spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Best regards,
Dave
Well, I bought that Power-trac 1418 that was available locally to me (I posted earlier that it was a 418). This thing is great! I moved more dirt in my backyard in about an hour than I could have moved in a whole day with just a wheelbarrow and shovel.
I've got the stump grinder and power auger attachments also, and I spent about an hour or so grinding stumps. I have a question about the direction the stump grinder wheel turns. If you are standing on the right side of the tractor, the grinder wheel turns clockwise. In other words, the stump grinder throws all the wood chips toward the tractor, not out in front of it. This seems very odd to me. I expected it to throw chips (and an occasional rock!) away from the tractor (and operator!), not toward it.
This model has the older 3-pin mounting method. There's a triangle-shaped plate to which the hydraulic motor for the stump grinder is bolted to with 3 bolts. The triangle-shaped plate then connects to the lift arms with 2 pins and the tilt arm with 1 pin. I can't see a way to mount the whole thing upside-down so that the wood chips would shoot away from the tractor. It does look like I could take the hydraulic motor off the triangular plate and re-mount it on the plate "upside-down". I'm actually wondering if it has been taken off before, then re-mounted upside-down, thus the wrong spin direction.
Can anyone tell me if (when looking at the tractor from the right side), the stump grinder wheel should be spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Best regards,
Dave