A Quick Review of my New Piranha Bar

[Imold]

It’s not like I am doing PTT with 100 watt and a 45ft antenna right outside my shack, the 1st time I used my 7900 in my pickup I was a bit worried being all this was new to me but that went without any issues.

Electrical and or Electronics is not my forte and never will be just like computers hahaha. I leave it to the professional types.

 

[W8BYA]

It痴 not like I am doing PTT with 100 watt and a 45ft antenna right outside my shack, the 1st time I used my 7900 in my pickup I was a bit worried being all this was new to me but that went without any issues.

Electrical and or Electronics is not my forte and never will be just like computers hahaha. I leave it to the professional types.

I understand. But that is exactly why this makes me so frustrated and somewhat angry.....this is something I am very familiar with and did as a living in the aerospace industry. I don't like it when they do not properly inform or instruct people, like yourself, who may not fully understand everything RF related that is so important. You should not have to be an RF engineer to be able to figure out if you are putting your life in jeopardy.

 

[WoodDuck]

Hey there WoodDuck. Your experiences matched mine to a "T". Mine is off for the winter since I do not have a pair of tamers yet.

Yeah, it's the best thing I've added to my tractor so far. Looking forward to trying the tamers some time. My dad lives in an oak woods, so the leaves are a constant problem for him. I want to try pushing some leaves with the edge tamers and Piranha bar on the bucket to see how it works. I'm hoping it will push most of the leaves out of the yard without tearing the grass up too bad. I'll let everyone know how it works for me when I try it!

 

[WoodDuck]

I have been a tech for last eight years, I was involved with the local HAM club and right after I got my Tech License I suffered a big heart attack and had a pacemaker installed and since then I have been trigger shy and have not preceded on to my General. My call sign is KD0NSC and my shack radio is a TS2000 with a 10-60/80 dipole plus 2 meter and 6 meter antennas, I have a few portable car units and handheld units, my health has kept me from going further being the meetings are about 26 miles from me and I never know how I am going to feel. I really would like to get my General but it is all about how I feel and my pacemaker, don稚 need any frequency interference with my pacemaker hahaha...

73痴.

I'm an amateur extra class HAM as well. Callsign Alpha-Charlie-9-Oscar-Whiskey. My current shack setup is fairly meager. I have an Icom 7300 as my HF base unit, feeding into a OCF dipole antenna thrown out through the tree tops beside the house. No amplifier; I need to upgrade my antenna setup dramatically before I worry about about getting a crazy expensive amplifier to push a bunch a watts through a inferior antenna system. My dipole runs in a North-South direction, so naturally it does decent in the East-West directions, but poorly in North-South directions. I don't have a tower yet, but I have purchased a K4KIO 20m-6m hex beam antenna in preparations to install a tower eventually. Still need to get a rotator and controller also. I'll be getting a Green Heron controller and Yaesu rotator combo package from Green Heron Engineering some time. Thanks for reminding me I still need to spend a bunch of money to get that project completed too! :laughing: 73's mates!

 

[tookielee]

The only issue I have with the PB is that my forks don't go far enough past the bar to work well. I will need to take the PB off to lift anything heavy with the bucket attach forks.

look at post #130 to see how I dealt with that
https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/411215-bxpanded-contact-13.html

 

[Imold]

look at post #130 to see how I dealt with that
https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/411215-bxpanded-contact-13.html

AwHa I was trying to remember who made their PB movable and could not remember because I was going to mention that but since I couldn’t remember I left it alone.

Thanks, I’m going to copy that pic if you don’t mind.

 

[Imold]

Here are a few pics of one of my forks on with PB. The forks are going nowhere they are planted pretty good to the bucket, I just thru the fork on so you all could see how it fits.

 

[Rosseasu]

I too have these clamp-on forks and put them right over my PB in some of the indents in the bar on my BX. They just stick out a little more from the bucket, but seem to work fine. I am glad to see the Edge Tamers work over the bar as well, will have to try them - more things to buy!

 

[W8BYA]

I too have these clamp-on forks and put them right over my PB in some of the indents in the bar on my BX. They just stick out a little more from the bucket, but seem to work fine. I am glad to see the Edge Tamers work over the bar as well, will have to try them - more things to buy!

LOL.....you got that right and I already blew my x-mas change :-( Oh well, maybe in 2020. Tnx to all of you for sharing these neat pictures and tips about being able to leave them on at the same time.