So what are some of the tasks you'd like higher lift height for?
When I first got mine, I was very concerned because I couldn't load over the side of my pickup truck. But after 16 years of ownership... I've never had to load over the side of my pickup truck!!! :laughing:
Turns out, I rarely haul loose material off of my property. I haul it in all the time in the form of mulch, stones, horse turds for the garden, etc.... but I never have to load the truck, only unload it. And no matter what the lift height, you can only get the bucket a couple feet into the back of a pickup anyway. So any tractor is useless for unloading loose material from a pickup.
So got to thinking about it shortly after we bought the PT425, and seeing how useful it was, and hauling it around in the back of the pickup to (as I've mentioned many times before) Little League, church, remote property, etc... we bought the car hauler trailer.
Now THAT is a useful trailer. I put 2 x 12 sides on the front and take it out to our remote property to get black dirt for our home and friends' homes. I can load it from the side or drive right up on it and load it. I can put a couple yards of dirt on the front of the trailer and the tractor on the back and bring it home and use the tractor to unload it off the trailer. I also unload limestone, mulch, etc... that I have loaded at the gravel pit or farm store.
Just recently, I acquired a guard off of a forklift, cut off the long legs and angled them forward 90 degrees and welded them back on. Then mounted it to my pallet forks. Now I've got a wide, 4 finger fork that is much more useful for wide logs and cut rounds than the original pallet forks. They're just pinned on, so easy to remove if I need to go back to the narrow forks.
Here's a picture of unloading firewood with those forks from the car hauler trailer. Works great!