Calling all BXX30 owners with a PHD

[CT_Tree_Guy]

That's right, you gotta be pretty darn smart to post in this thread. ME, MS degrees will be considered.

How's that hole digging going? How is it using a phd without a foot clutch? Thanks.

 

[Scrounger]

I'm using a 2230 with a Worksaver PHD on it. We just finished putting in about 500 trail marker signs on some snowmobile trails in NY state. Digging in some horrible stuff and it worked just fine. Ate thru alot of shear bolts but that is expected.

I run the PTO and jack it up and down with the 3PT with great results. I pull it out of the hole still spinning and it clears the dirt well.

I've been using a 30" auger 9" in diameter. I can use a 12" extension on it also, but not as easy as the 30" alone.

Using something like the Pat's Easy Change would help alot, but we've not played with them at all. Too expensive in my view but I've never used them personally.

 

[CT_Tree_Guy]

Matthew:

Thanks for the reply. Could you please clarify something for me? I'm looking for B2630 and B3030 owners because those machines don't have traditional "foot" clutches. Does your BX2230 have one, or no? If it has a foot clutch, what are your thoughts on how it would be using the phd without it?

Thanks, John D.

 

[DAP]

Ummm John, the thrust of this thread appears to have sailed over a coupla heads ... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hope it gets cleared up soon.

 

[Scrounger]

I should read the posts better. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I have a BX2230 and you're looking for a B series answer. Sorry about that.

 

[CT_Tree_Guy]

Matthew: Hey, no prob. The title of the thread is a little confusing anyway, with the BXX30 thing. I probably should have said B2630/3030 owners.

It would still be helpful to know how essential it is to have a foot clutch when you use the digger - do you use it a lot to control the phd?

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

Its pretty easy to make the argument that having a clutch for PHD work is the easier way to go. That being said, my experience has been that its very possible to do without it too. Other than this I don't think there is really any other disadvantage to not having a clutch.

 

[CT_Tree_Guy]

Neil, thanks for the input. As I've said elsewhere, the clutch on my 5030HST is "about as useful as Congress". I'd love to get some feedback from people using a phd with these "B" tractors. And I guess it would depend on what part of the country they're using it in, too. Midwest, where rocks are less plentiful, or in the northeast, where rocks are a cash crop, for instance.

Trying to find answers to things like this reminds me that last week, at Thanksgiving dinner, I was telling everyone about TBN. A friend of the family said - "Why would you need an entire website just to talk about tractors ?

Sigh .... anyway, it's nice to be back among people who know why we need one /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif