Mowing Looks like a Slope Mower.

ToolcatWonka5610 · Mar 25, 2009

Well, I talked with my Dad, told him about the Slope Mowers, their capabilities, and versatility and he thinks the Slope Mowers is the right PT for us. The Slope capabilities will actually be very handy for us (apparently there are some steep hills my dad often gets contracted to work on, which I didn't realize.) I did some research and the 1845 sounds like the machine for us. I'm trying to find a used, low hour 1845 or 1850 but if not a new 1845 will be the way to go (unless we find a used slope mower). Attachments most likely are; 60" 9cu ft Bucket, 72" Mower (off a 1460. Includes T12 attachment Plate), 60" Power Rake, 72" Front Blade, and Planter Drill with 9", 18", 36" Augers. I have yet to talk to a Salesman at Power-Trac (tried today. No answer at Sales). We'll be doing a lot of research before we decide for sure on a Slope Mower.

Question: Does PT Make a Contour Mower for the Slope Mowers? I saw one in the PT DVD I got.

J_J · Mar 25, 2009

You mean like this.

http://www.power-trac.com/images/Attachments/boomred1.jpg

ToolcatWonka5610 · Mar 25, 2009

J_J said:
You mean like this.

http://www.power-trac.com/images/Attachments/boomred1.jpg

No, thats a Boom Mower.
It's basiclly a Wide Cut deck Cut into 3 parts and each part Follows the ground better for a nicer and cleaner cut. It's used widely on Golf Courses.
Here's some pix of a Contour deck made by another Articulating Tractor called Ventrac.

MossRoad · Mar 25, 2009

ToolcatWonka5610 said:
Well, I talked with my Dad, told him about the Slope Mowers, their capabilities, and versatility and he thinks the Slope Mowers is the right PT for us. The Slope capabilities will actually be very handy for us (apparently there are some steep hills my dad often gets contracted to work on, which I didn't realize.) I did some research and the 1845 sounds like the machine for us. I'm trying to find a used, low hour 1845 or 1850 but if not a new 1845 will be the way to go (unless we find a used slope mower). Attachments most likely are; 60" 9cu ft Bucket, 72" Mower (off a 1460. Includes T12 attachment Plate), 60" Power Rake, 72" Front Blade, and Planter Drill with 9", 18", 36" Augers. I have yet to talk to a Salesman at Power-Trac (tried today. No answer at Sales). We'll be doing a lot of research before we decide for sure on a Slope Mower.

Question: Does PT Make a Contour Mower for the Slope Mowers? I saw one in the PT DVD I got.

Do NOT jump into this purchase.

Find one somewhere to test drive and/or make the trip to Tazewell, first.

I love my PT425, but I would never recommend someone buy a Power Trac sight unseen.

SnowRidge · Mar 25, 2009

No answer in sales? What in the world is going on in Tazewell?

ToolcatWonka5610 · Mar 25, 2009

MossRoad said:
Do NOT jump into this purchase.

Find one somewhere to test drive and/or make the trip to Tazewell, first.

I love my PT425, but I would never recommend someone buy a Power Trac sight unseen.

No, no no. Thats my bad. I don't want it to sound like were jumping into this purchase. First, I want to talk to the folks at PT. Second, I wanna try and find someone here in Michigan that has a Slope Mower. I have a week off from school starting the 3rd so that will give me plenty of time to do A LOT of research. Phils who has a 422 recommended that I skim through all the PT posts and then I should have a bunch of serious questions. Thank you MossRoad for the advice.

ToolcatWonka5610 · Mar 25, 2009

SnowRidge said:
No answer in sales? What in the world is going on in Tazewell?

Yeah, kinda irritated me. My dad said he called them yesterday and the told him the got a 2008 1845 demo with 25-30 hours with a Mower, Bucket and Blade for $35,000. Not bad don't you think? I wanna talk to them about it!

woodlandfarms · Mar 25, 2009

If the mower you show in the photos is Hydraulic in power, and withing the limits of the PT, there probably isn't any reason you could not buy that deck and modify it to fit.

All of us here modify other implements to fit out PT. Quite simple. Also gives us a chance to use implements that might be of higher quality or more useful to us.

ToolcatWonka5610 · Mar 26, 2009

woodlandfarms said:
If the mower you show in the photos is Hydraulic in power, and withing the limits of the PT, there probably isn't any reason you could not buy that deck and modify it to fit.

All of us here modify other implements to fit out PT. Quite simple. Also gives us a chance to use implements that might be of higher quality or more useful to us.

I already know PT has one for their tractors because I saw it. Probably for the 1845. 0I know about the attachments thing. The forks we'll get for it are some allied brand.

SnowRidge · Mar 26, 2009

ToolcatWonka5610 said:
Yeah, kinda irritated me. My dad said he called them yesterday and the told him the got a 2008 1845 demo with 25-30 hours with a Mower, Bucket and Blade for $35,000. Not bad don't you think? I wanna talk to them about it!

What! A demo (read as used) for 25 - 30 hours (by whom and under what conditions) and they are going to give you a whole 1 - 2 thousand off? Unless they are throwing the trailer in, I would take a pass.