FOURTEEN
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2004
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- Location
- Efland - Triangle of North Carolina.
- Tractor
- 2004 Power Trac PT-425
PT Abuse. Does it happen? Is that good or bad?
“noun: improper or excessive use”
What is ‘improper’? If I can get my PT to do a job that it wasn’t specifically intended for, isn’t that just innovation? I dig up stones rather than potatoes with my Potato Digger. I cut trenches with my Stump Grinder. Are those uses improper?
What is ‘excessive’? Is moving 50 big logs OK, but moving 100 big logs excessive? If I try to lift too much, my PT just won’t do it! Nothing bends or breaks, it just refuses! What’s the largest lawn that I can mow without abusing my PT?
“verb: change the inherent purpose or function of something”
The best virtue that a PT has is it’s ability to help it’s owner with nearly any job he has to do! Most Posts here on TBN involve talking about how to get a variety of jobs done using the PT, about how to use the PT in unusual ways, or about how some change or improvement will allow the PT to work even harder and better!
My test is if what I am doing will lead to bending, breaking, failing, accelerated wear, or damage! If not, it’s not ‘abuse’!! With all the ‘abuse’ being reported on TBN, why do I see so few Posts about PT failures??
In nearly 3 years of abusing my PT the only possible ‘abuse’ failure that I’ve had was the bending of the toggle between the lift arms. But the replacement toggle that PT sent me was much larger in diameter! So maybe it wasn’t my abuse, but rather the OEM sizing of the toggle that was to blame for the failure!!
To paraphrase the old Timex commercials: “The Power Trac will take a licking, and keep on ticking!!”!
“noun: improper or excessive use”
What is ‘improper’? If I can get my PT to do a job that it wasn’t specifically intended for, isn’t that just innovation? I dig up stones rather than potatoes with my Potato Digger. I cut trenches with my Stump Grinder. Are those uses improper?
What is ‘excessive’? Is moving 50 big logs OK, but moving 100 big logs excessive? If I try to lift too much, my PT just won’t do it! Nothing bends or breaks, it just refuses! What’s the largest lawn that I can mow without abusing my PT?
“verb: change the inherent purpose or function of something”
The best virtue that a PT has is it’s ability to help it’s owner with nearly any job he has to do! Most Posts here on TBN involve talking about how to get a variety of jobs done using the PT, about how to use the PT in unusual ways, or about how some change or improvement will allow the PT to work even harder and better!
My test is if what I am doing will lead to bending, breaking, failing, accelerated wear, or damage! If not, it’s not ‘abuse’!! With all the ‘abuse’ being reported on TBN, why do I see so few Posts about PT failures??
In nearly 3 years of abusing my PT the only possible ‘abuse’ failure that I’ve had was the bending of the toggle between the lift arms. But the replacement toggle that PT sent me was much larger in diameter! So maybe it wasn’t my abuse, but rather the OEM sizing of the toggle that was to blame for the failure!!
To paraphrase the old Timex commercials: “The Power Trac will take a licking, and keep on ticking!!”!