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Hello pt guys,
On my first post a few weeks ago I expressed concern about the light weight of the pt425 when used for digging to correct erosion problems. I was at the pt factory monday of this week and had a chance to try digging with the pt425. I was barely able to scratch the dirt in the test area with the small bucket (no teeth) before the turf tires began to spin. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed. Sean got a grapple bucket with teeth for me to try but it was no better.
I just figured that traction and weight go together. Then the other pt fellow, Terry, said it was a matter of technique. He got in the pt425 and had a hole a foot and half deep in no time at all. He said that at trade shows he "buries" the pt425 in about an hour ( i.e., the hole is so deep the pt425 is below ground level.) The digging demonstration convinced me that the pt425 can dig, if you know how. Now, I also have about 200 yards of gravel drive to maintain, so the next thing I tried was smoothing some of the "gravel" (golf ball size chunks of stone) in the test area. Again, I mostly got wheel spin instead of grading the gravel. So now I'm concerned that that 1300 lbs is too light to get traction on gravel to do grading. Here's the question: Have any of you used the 400 series for grading gravel drives? If so, what implement did you use? Blade, bucket, box blade, etc. Was traction a problem? Thanks in advance for any info you can give.- ken in ms
On my first post a few weeks ago I expressed concern about the light weight of the pt425 when used for digging to correct erosion problems. I was at the pt factory monday of this week and had a chance to try digging with the pt425. I was barely able to scratch the dirt in the test area with the small bucket (no teeth) before the turf tires began to spin. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed. Sean got a grapple bucket with teeth for me to try but it was no better.
I just figured that traction and weight go together. Then the other pt fellow, Terry, said it was a matter of technique. He got in the pt425 and had a hole a foot and half deep in no time at all. He said that at trade shows he "buries" the pt425 in about an hour ( i.e., the hole is so deep the pt425 is below ground level.) The digging demonstration convinced me that the pt425 can dig, if you know how. Now, I also have about 200 yards of gravel drive to maintain, so the next thing I tried was smoothing some of the "gravel" (golf ball size chunks of stone) in the test area. Again, I mostly got wheel spin instead of grading the gravel. So now I'm concerned that that 1300 lbs is too light to get traction on gravel to do grading. Here's the question: Have any of you used the 400 series for grading gravel drives? If so, what implement did you use? Blade, bucket, box blade, etc. Was traction a problem? Thanks in advance for any info you can give.- ken in ms