WOW. That is one great property. How big is it? I love the tree house, I assume the home itself is just as cool?
Can't wait to hear about all the aggravation with the PT. Oh, from the pix you should not have too many issues.
Carl,
We purchased the land about ten years ago...75 acres of steep mountain forest, ranging from 3800 ft to 3200 ft, crossed with old logging roads....several year round springs and a nice steam provide ample water and possibility of micro hydro installation to provide all the power we need. Fairly remote for this day and age....we're 20 miles from four towns and some of our best views are of national forest. At night we see only a dozen or so distant lights...
We've spent years improving roads and trails, clearing, digging ditches, putting in culverts, trenches for pipes and elec and such. Our abode at present is a very modest tin pole barn about 30 x 24 feet. We closed in and insulated half of it into what I call our single-wide. Concrete floors heated by water heater keep us cozy against the winter cold.
In shoulder seasons and summer we're content with our camp where we have all the basics....running hot and cold water (gravity fed from spring), electricity and satelite internet, but we look forward to the house. It will be cool when it is built but at present we have only the foundation and a stack of beams. Our PT 2445, with 2500 lb lift capacity and nine foot reach, will come in real handy when we go to place them. The design is our own but inspired by traditional Japanese farmhouse...kind of a blend of old and new.
I'm schooled in myriad aggravations with PT's. I won't bore you with details, but suffice to say I've been shoulder deep in the snake's nest of hydraulic hoses more times than I can count in my years of PT2445 ownership.
Ken,
Of course purchases of used equipment often come with good tales, but taken at face value this unit appears to have been used for fairways in Florida...the only negative is the 90" mower is a finish mower, not brush cutter, but I think we can work with that once we get the bruch cleared. A SE eguipment dealer picked up two PT1850s from a Florida bank that took them back and didn't know what to do with them. As he too is a flat lander, no one in his area knew what they were or what they were really capable of, so I took one off his hands
Only time will tell if I'm lucky as to its "true" condition.
Whistlepig,
Your words are wise. I too am no spring chicken and although I often forget I'm not 20 anymore, I'm "trying" to slow down and do things smarter. Alas, at the same time I feel a sense of urgency to accomplish what I can in the available time....I've always been driven and I doubt that will change much... That said, you don't know my lovely wife who will not let me rest until she can see grass in the fields again.....
Kent,
We're practically neighbors...let me know if you ever wander our way
Picture of the current "house" and accompanying bathhouse attached...
Best,
