Changes in plans on the PT Purchase

   / Changes in plans on the PT Purchase #11  
I have the 4 in 1 bucket and the light material bucket. I have not used the light material bucket in years. The 4 in 1 is so easy to load so I prefer it. Just my thoughts, others may think differently. Oh I also have the grapple bucket.
 
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BobRip, I can understand fully where you are coming from here. The reason I wanted the light material bucket is for snow, or other things around my house and driveway, before I put the snow plow on, or to move large amounts of dirt from one place to another. I have a Johnny Bucket now, and its around the same size as the 4 in 1, and I find many times that a larger bucket would let me make a lot less trips from one place to another.

I am sure down the road there will be more things I want, or need as time and money let me get them.
Jeff
 
   / Changes in plans on the PT Purchase #13  
BobRip, I can understand fully where you are coming from here. The reason I wanted the light material bucket is for snow, or other things around my house and driveway, before I put the snow plow on, or to move large amounts of dirt from one place to another. I have a Johnny Bucket now, and its around the same size as the 4 in 1, and I find many times that a larger bucket would let me make a lot less trips from one place to another.

I am sure down the road there will be more things I want, or need as time and money let me get them.
Jeff
OK. I think you will find that you love the 425. It is a lot of machine.
 
   / Changes in plans on the PT Purchase #14  
BobRip, I can understand fully where you are coming from here. The reason I wanted the light material bucket is for snow, or other things around my house and driveway, before I put the snow plow on, or to move large amounts of dirt from one place to another. I have a Johnny Bucket now, and its around the same size as the 4 in 1, and I find many times that a larger bucket would let me make a lot less trips from one place to another.

I am sure down the road there will be more things I want, or need as time and money let me get them.
Jeff

I have the 60" power angle snow plow and I have the large light material bucket. In 14 years, I've only used the light material bucket to move snow once. That was last year when we had so much snow that I ran out of room to place it with the plow. As I mentioned in another post, I had a pile about 150' long, 6' high and 8's wide. It was in a strip of grass between our driveway and a neighbor's driveway that I clear. We just plain ran out of room. I had to actually move the snow from the front yard to the back yard where is sat well into April. But, I made about 50-100 trips over a couple hours and that was that. All done! :thumbsup:
 
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You'll find you can stack snow much higher with the plow VS a bucket, and it takes less time with the plow because you can angle it. If I was short on cash, I'd just get the bucket as it will do an adequate job, but the plow is very reasonably priced for what you get and is better by a factor of 3 or 4 at least, in my opinion.
 
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BobRip, I think I will like the machine a lot, once I get it all set up so I can run it. I have done a lot with my little JD and the Johnny Bucket and digging and moving dirt over the years, but know the 425 will do so much more.

M R, I have only had a few snows that I would have liked to have had a big bucket to move, or pile things, but figure while they have the sale on, to go ahead and get it, as I live a 1/4 mile off the main road, but end up doing about 1/2 mile of 30 foot road total with all the driveways, and have to have an angle snow plow to do that. I remember years ago I didn't have a power angle on the blade and just did everything to one side, and almost ended up getting myself stuck a few times with not being able to turn around when I had a few places downhill, and with only 2wd and chains I about got into trouble, (since I couldn't get off and turn he blade to make a path to come back up the hill) The JD318 has really done well, as I have 250 in elevator weights on the back of it, and 150 on the rear wheels, and my skinny butt on it, and found it does pretty good. I hope the PT425 with bar tires does as well, as I used to try the Turfs and they just loaded up all the time, and had to have chains, but think by the print in the snow that he Tru-Power Bar tires I have now might have done the job without chains, except on ice, then they are the only thing that seem to help.

I thought about the Grapple bucket over the 4 in 1, as I have a neighbor that helps trim the trees and such on the sides of the road, and he just piles it on the side, and I back drag it now into a pile, then scoop it up to get rid of it, but that is about the only time I would see me doing that, and the 4 in 1 I figure I could reach down into a ditch, and drag it out with the front of the bucket, then to pick it up when I need to clean my ditches out, (like right now with them filled with leaves), One ditch line is about 150 foot and 2 foot deep, hope with it open that it will reach that far down to let me grab things, put them on the side of the road, then come back and be able to pick them up to take them down into my hole.

I have all kinds of ideas, just need to get it, and hope I can get used to it and be productive with it.
Jeff
 
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I might suggest more QA plates than the two recommended. Get like 6. Seriously. What you are going to find is plenty of used but very good implements cheap locally. A simple weld and you can have the implement of your choice riding on the front of your machine. Honestly I own only one implement from PT and have 14 implements (let me think here, stump grinder, post hole digger, bucket, grapple, york rake, box blade, pickle fork, potato digger, hitch adapter, 3 point adapter, back hoe, mower, i know there is more.... ) Mower is the only thing from PT, I made 3 of my implements... rest are craigslist or third party. I just found a sickle mower in my ravine I am trying to figure out, and have a jones to build an offset to put my implements to the side instead of straight on.

anyway, you get the picture.
 
   / Changes in plans on the PT Purchase #18  
I have the 60" power angle snow plow and I have the large light material bucket. In 14 years, I've only used the light material bucket to move snow once. That was last year when we had so much snow that I ran out of room to place it with the plow. As I mentioned in another post, I had a pile about 150' long, 6' high and 8's wide. It was in a strip of grass between our driveway and a neighbor's driveway that I clear. We just plain ran out of room. I had to actually move the snow from the front yard to the back yard where is sat well into April. But, I made about 50-100 trips over a couple hours and that was that. All done! :thumbsup:

Moss. The plow works good for you because your driveway is flat and, I think, paved. Most the driveways I do are unpaved and or not flat. I have to use the Light material bucket. Trouble with PT plow is it doesn't have any float or articulation built in so it won't follow the uneven terrain. You can float the loader but than there's to much weight on the plow and it digs in and the tractor rides up over the loader. I bet one could convert a light weight plow designed for small vehicle that would work with non- floating loader.
 
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I am getting an extra plate when I pick the machine up. It doesn't look that hard to copy one, and if I can find a metal company that would cut the parts out, looks easy enough to weld together, and should be able to do it for about half the cost they want.

I am going to try not to get that many attachments, as I just don't have room to store them, and I don't leave things outside, especially if it has hoses, or cylinders on them.
 
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Moss. The plow works good for you because your driveway is flat and, I think, paved. Most the driveways I do are unpaved and or not flat. I have to use the Light material bucket. Trouble with PT plow is it doesn't have any float or articulation built in so it won't follow the uneven terrain. You can float the loader but than there's to much weight on the plow and it digs in and the tractor rides up over the loader. I bet one could convert a light weight plow designed for small vehicle that would work with non- floating loader.

I have learned long ago, that if a blade has any weight, or down pressure at all, they do not work with the float, unless conditions are ideal. On my JD, or any other tractor I have run, just drop it until it hits, and pick it up a hair. Alls you want is the sun to be able to get to things, and the earth's heat will have it down to gravel, dirt, or what ever you are trying to clear. Seems most want to get it too clean on the first pass, and the only time I ever had anything like that work was with a machine with lift only, and no down pressure to them.

I think M R said he puts the wheels down, then tilts the blade back a hair, that way it is a hair above all, and the pressure is on the wheels, and even that way I have found it will dig in, especially on a crowned gravel road.
 

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