Buying Advice PT1445 talk me off this fence
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ponytug
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Yes, but the PT will put your posts in, unroll the fence, and do an initial pull on the no-climb to get it tight. PT sells a fence unroller which might be worth considering. It is designed for concrete reinforcement, but works for fences too.
You might want to consider adding electric to both sides; it keeps the sniffers away. We have one at nose level for the pigs, and they almost never make it in.
I thought briefly about having someone else do it, and was quoted $40/linear foot, unpainted, ten years ago. So, $64k, less $10k supplies, $54k/80 hours=$675/hour. Yup, I will take work at that rate. Manual labor often out earns white collar labor here in the bay area. Before we got into shoeing our horses, our farrier mentioned that he took in $350k/yr, all cash. (Thanks Craigy2! We like it.) Visibility yesterday was up around 100-150 miles, which is not typical, but not unusual either.
I don't have a leaf issue to speak of, but pushing them seems inherently prone to issues.
All the best,
Peter
You might want to consider adding electric to both sides; it keeps the sniffers away. We have one at nose level for the pigs, and they almost never make it in.
I thought briefly about having someone else do it, and was quoted $40/linear foot, unpainted, ten years ago. So, $64k, less $10k supplies, $54k/80 hours=$675/hour. Yup, I will take work at that rate. Manual labor often out earns white collar labor here in the bay area. Before we got into shoeing our horses, our farrier mentioned that he took in $350k/yr, all cash. (Thanks Craigy2! We like it.) Visibility yesterday was up around 100-150 miles, which is not typical, but not unusual either.
I don't have a leaf issue to speak of, but pushing them seems inherently prone to issues.
All the best,
Peter
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Toomanymaples
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That is an insane amount of money for fencing, I might be in the wrong line of work. With all the projects you've done and bay area labor rates what they are, I bet your 1445 has paid for itself several times over.
The PT would be great for tensioning, we've been using a come-along against a brace. A PT could just drive right in.
When we first moved in, our entire lower pasture was a bear territory. I found bear droppings every 20-30 feet, the tall grass was trampled down in places. We have salmon berries and had lots of blackberries. I haven't seen any signs of them since we got our Anatolian shepherds. The dogs stay in fine with the invisible fence, on the few occasions when the have gotten out, it has always been my neglecting to check the battery levels on their collars. Electric fence is on the to do list as a back up to my laziness :laughing:
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Yeah, pushing leaves sounds goofy, I'll admit. When we were kids, we'd rake into a windrow, then turn the rake upside down so the tines were facing up, slide the rake along the ground, and push the windrows down the row into piles. A lot more efficient than raking the entire row, or putting onto a tarp.
Leaf plows are just a giant version of an upside down rake.
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Leaf plows are just a giant version of an upside down rake.
ponytug
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Wow! Thanks for sharing. That works far better than I would have ever have guessed. Would I be right in thinking that level, rolled lawns are a big help?
I liked the part where the mower rolled over his toes, twice. Good thing the blades weren't running.
All the best,
Peter
I liked the part where the mower rolled over his toes, twice. Good thing the blades weren't running.
All the best,
Peter
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One of the local colleges has a lot of areas where they cannot get the sucker truck in, they have about a dozen guys with backpack blowers move all the leaves to the sidewalks, then use the leaf plows to push them to the parking lots where the sucker truck can pick them up.
Works great on sidewalks, driveways, and yes, my nice flat lawn. I don't have a leaf rake, but my snowplow on gauge wheels does almost as good and I don't scalp the lawn. But as I said, if I have a choice, I just sweep them up.
Works great on sidewalks, driveways, and yes, my nice flat lawn. I don't have a leaf rake, but my snowplow on gauge wheels does almost as good and I don't scalp the lawn. But as I said, if I have a choice, I just sweep them up.
coolconnection
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You could make your own leaf blower for your PT, I did. Converted an old Steiner leaf blower to mount and run off my PT hydraulics. There are pictures of it somewhere in this forum.
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Here you go.... a week after your Steiner was pilfered. 
https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/power-trac/131025-converting-leaf-blower-2.html#post1538844
https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/power-trac/131025-converting-leaf-blower-2.html#post1538844
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I though about finding an old silage blower and putting a hydraulic motor on it. But I really have no need for it with the sweeper. It would be fun, though.
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I've been searching the forums and it looks like Roswelloperations found the solution for a PT leaf collection. Why push when you can push then grapple. No tarps, works when wet. I need this in my life.