A couple more video clips

[SpringHollow]

Hi Carl,

The 12-15 is for running singles, the 8 is what all 8 tires should be when running duals if you want maximum traction. The way you have yours (and I have mine) gives you the ease of switching back and forth between singles and duals without having to change pressures all the time but it does sacrifice some traction on the side hills. However it does still keep you from flipping!

Ken

 

[woodlandfarms]

Ken... thanks for the notes on the tires. Will try 8 later this week when I get going on the serious slopes. I keep getting flats, which is OK cause I have two spares. Most of them are knocking off the air inlet. All are being switched to metal which seems to hold up better so far....

As for the blades flying off and using the bucket. I knocked some stuff over today and will try tomorrow with the mower and see if that works.

Still chasing oil leaks...

Carl

 

[ponytug]

Dear Carl,

Great to see the videos! I can't wait for the PT muscle car reborn add.

I second the advice of the safety cop, oops, I mean Ken T. Repeat after me, "I will not lift the brush cutter under power, I will not..." We want to keep you as a long and useful contributor and friend here. A heavy mesh brush screen might help, but I wouldn't want to bet heavily on it since you are trying to deflect a small, heavy object moving at high speed, rather than a glancing blow from a tree limb or a dropped rock.

I've used brush cutters on tractors and they throw objects incredible distances, and the mower parts do shatter. I don't know which is more scary, the high powered thunk from something hitting the mower underneath, or the whistling sound of a baseball sized rock flying away. I think it may be the sound of the riccochet that comes whistling back by you...

Trust me, I think that you want to keep the brush hog on the ground.

It looked to me like you could have used your FEL to knock the trees down and then mow them. More work certainly, but a lot safer.

Sorry to see about your crack. I'd have a pro do it- and perhaps reinforce the corner.

All the best,

Peter

Wife is not much of a camera woman. Will try someone else at a later date.

One sequence is of how I have to brush hog. Not code, not that safe, but it works. Yes, the PT stays stable elevating the mower that high, and the mower leans back so the blades never face me...

One sequence of slope mowing. It was just a small hill around 30 degrees. But the tractor definitly slips. Need to ask Terry about what I am doing wrong.

Finally, the wife trying out the back hoe. Give an idea of how it works...


YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

 

[RegL]

Is raising the brush hog pointed away from you really any more dangerous than using a rotary boom mower, like this?

Tiger Corporation: Rotary and Flail Mowers for Highway Maintenance - Boom Mowers

 

[MossRoad]

The brush hog can tilt and swing on 2 axis. Add the height of the lift arms and if you get hung up on something your head and torso can end up on the same plane as the spinning blades. Add to that the distance between you and the blades can be as little as 3 feet in that situation. A recipe for catastrophe, in my opinion.

It has been mentioned many times by many folks that we know the dangers involved and asked that we not get into a safety police discussion. We are all big kids here and know the risks of what we do. However, I've come to a conlcusion about my conversations with all of the folks in the Power Trac forum... on a purely selfish level, I want to keep you all around for my own personal enjoyment! So, it never hurts to discuss safety issues like we frequently do here. And if we are all aware of them and have the information, it is our choice how to use that information.

As alwys, I'll be the first to admit to doing unsafe things.

 

[woodlandfarms]

And I appreciate the advice even if it is something I don't wan to hear... I was raised on a farm, but that was a long time ago and the city has changed who I am...

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

And I appreciate the advice even if it is something I don't wan to hear... I was raised on a farm, but that was a long time ago and the city has changed who I am...

Good attitude. We always have the option not to follow advice, or even to be a little irritated by it. But when someone warns me about some danger I hadn't thought of, and it saves my rump, I remember how long it's been since I knew everything.

 

[MossRoad]

I remember how long it's been since I knew everything.

That's pretty funny!

 

[cqaigy2]

I remember how long it's been since I knew everything.

boy aint that the truth.

 

[Red Zebra]

That hoe looks really handy. Have you considered an electric solenoid valve with a pushbutton on the joystick so that you can switch one of the joystick functions to the bucket curl while the button is pushed? A few folks have installed them and they look really handy.

"What you talkin' 'bout Willis"? Is there a linky to a thread on that?