Buying Advice Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice?

   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #11  
Sounds great, Dave. Can't wait to see it! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice?
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I was thinking about it over the weekend after looking at some of the pictures on here...I might actually switch out the 8" cylinder for a longer stroke (which unfortunately requires me to relocate the tab that the cylinder base attaches to...shouldn't be too hard since I haven't welded the reinforcement in place yet). I took a trade off between degrees of curl vs. force...I tended to favor max force over the full curl degrees (the bucket curls maybe 100 degrees or so), but with a little longer stroke cylinder (maybe 12") I can have both...hmmm.

What's the stroke on the PT mini-hoe's cylinder...anyone know?

Thx,
Dave
 
   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #13  
<font color="red"> What's the stroke on the PT mini-hoe's cylinder...anyone know?
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On my minihoe its the same cylinder used on the lift arms, looks like about a 2 inch bore and 14 inch stroke.

Sedgewood
 
   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #14  
Dave

I am about halfway on my mine-hoe project. I have three buckets to chose from.

First picture, bucket open, grapple fixed.

I believe the file is to big. help
 
   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #15  
Might be an easier way but I go to my picture editing software and resize the picture by changing the pixels so the picture is under 100K

sg
 
   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #16  
Bucket open, grapple fixed
 

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   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #17  
Bucket closed, grapple fixed.
 

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   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #18  
Grapple stowed.
 

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   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #19  
Thanks, it took me about 30 min to fix the picture, but I finally did the deed.
 
   / Building a front-hoe for my PT-1418 - Advice? #20  
Awsome! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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