MikeOConnor
Silver Member
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2002
- Messages
- 172
- Location
- Western Wisconsin
- Tractor
- Two Power-Trac 1850s (preferred for mowing and grapple-bucket clearing type work on really steep hills). Kubota M680 for snowblowing, grading, bucket.
I've been learning the limits of my PT. I've found that it's easy to exceed them, but if I go a little easy I can keep my machine running a lot longer between repair stops. Tires are a good example -- I have the standard often-go-flat problems, but they're mostly due to crazy sideways slides down steep hills. If I avoid those maneuvers, the tires tend to stay inflated longer.
Same deal with overheating -- it's easy to run that machine beyond it's limit (90 degree tall-weeds mowing on a hilly open field). In a way, it's a design problem, but in a way it's just too easy to do certain things that push the machine too far. If I back off any of the variables (mow on cooler days, go slower through weeds, take it a little slower) things seem to go a lot better.
Same deal with overheating -- it's easy to run that machine beyond it's limit (90 degree tall-weeds mowing on a hilly open field). In a way, it's a design problem, but in a way it's just too easy to do certain things that push the machine too far. If I back off any of the variables (mow on cooler days, go slower through weeds, take it a little slower) things seem to go a lot better.