Another lackender order placed

   / Another lackender order placed #21  
<font color=red>...that big plate has to go.</font color=red>

When you see mine, a week from Sunday, you'll be even more convinced the plate has to go. It is sized for a skid steer quick attach, and does obstruct your view. As with many things on my list, I just haven't gotten around to slicing off the excess.

Charlie
 
   / Another lackender order placed #22  
Hans:
Glad it's working. As you have found, you can get used to curling the button with the right-knee lever. It will do everything that can be accomplished with the diverter, just a little slower. I also dug up some tough roots, using the curl to rip them up or cut them. Sure beats an axe, mattock and shovel. If the hoe won't get one, I declare the root the winner and go on to the next job.
 
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#23  
around thanksgiving my younger son will help me .... i hope and i will have quite a few pictures then ... sorry for all the delays.
 
   / Another lackender order placed #24  
Hans, I'm glad the Lackender is working well for you. I have to agree about the large mounting plate; it definitely obstructs the view. It sounds like you had enough power for the 8" bucket. How's the curl speed with the 2" cylinder?

A friend of mine came by the other day, while I was digging out some rocks with the hoe. He was making fun of me, as he had on his trailer, a Hitachi mini excavator he had just purchased at auction. It was a really cool machine, and in great shape for the price he paid, which was $10,500. I was jealous for awhile, but then came back to reality. I only need a hoe ocassionally, but I use the buckets, auger, mower, forks, cement mixer, etc. on the PT fairly frequently. Besides, if I need to dig an 11 ft. deep hole, I now know where to borrow a mini excavator! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
 
   / Another lackender order placed #25  
<font color=red>Besides, if I need to dig an 11 ft. deep hole, I now know where to borrow a mini excavator!</font color=red>

Sounds like just with a phone call you'll have an excavator, with operator anxious to prove how much better his will dig than the Lackender. Be careful, though. Don't brag too much about all the things the PT will do that his excavator can't, or you may end up working all around that excavator that can't mow, move mulch, etc.
 
   / Another lackender order placed #26  
Charlie: <font color=red> When you see mine, a week from Sunday, you'll be even more convinced the plate has to go.</font color=red>

Yeah, that plate has bothered me from my first look at your Lackender pics way back when. A neighbor just dropped by with a tale of woe about not being able to find anybody to run him a little drain line before freezeup.. Until now I've wanted one to play with - today I could sell its services.

Sedgewood
 
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#27  
<font color=red>How's the curl speed with the 2" cylinder?</font color=red>

a little slower than any the other motions on the hoe but rather powerful when attacking larger roots. i saw a similar hoe from woods mower co. today. i did not like it. the motions were for the most part yerky and slow. it was either the operator or the way they set up the mechanics of the hoe, and he said he paid quite a bit more than i did.

Hoe, thumb, 8" bucket, 2 teeth and shipping to south eastern pa was $1150.00.
 
   / Another lackender order placed #28  
Hans, My 3" cylinder definitely moves quite a bit slower than the rest of the motions, which you know can be very fast! Sometimes too fast!!/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif I timed the bucket curl for comparison: 7 seconds from full open to full curl. I can however take a full bite with the 12" bucket in that time, so I guess it's all relative. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I need to get a thumb, like you and Charlie have. I look forward to hearing more about your new hoe.

Charlie, I already challenged my friend to an equipment triathlon: gravel moving, mowing and digging. I think I can be victorious in 2 out of 3!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
 
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#29  
i won't post another award ... because i don't like to be laughed out of town like the last time ... my bet is on you. anybody can attain the 11 feet depth of the other machine(especially if you built/dig a ramp to attain the depth). i had to do this last night (not quite eleven feet) to get to the vertical roots, it was just like going to the mines. i dug a path on either side of the nasty tree conglomerate of roots. i dug the ramp at a 45 degree slant and about 15 degrees to the outside ... and whamo ... the roots released ... all along i was thinking that i did this for sooooo many years by hand ... ouch my back.

well, the detractors will say with the ramp system: that allot more hole to be dug and fill to be moved. you are not paying 11 some thousand dollars for a not as versatile and slower moving machine.

the <font color=red> thumb is definitely a must </font color=red> especially for a beginner without the red button addition. there are plans on the net to make them yourself. i think i came out ahead by getting it directly from randy lackender.
 
   / Another lackender order placed #30  
Hans,
You and Charlie really have me interested in this hoe. My order with PT changes weekly with the attachments that I want. After reading all the posts with hands on experience from all the PY owners have been a great help.
PJ
 

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