Power Trac Future

[smartguyz]

Look under New Attachments link in the middle of the PT webpage:

NEW

The Utility Grapple is the most useful attachment I use during non-winter months. In addition to carrying brush piles it can grab just about anything you can think of. Much more useful than a grapple bucket.

I would LOVE a utility grapple. PT charges $800 plus shipping for these. Gotta save up!

I would also love a 'grubbing bucket', which PT doesn't product, but is basically a really small bucket, mounted just like the regular light material or rock bucket, that is used for digging up stuff - it is a replacement for a hand shovel.

Sincerely,

Rob

 

[lfbaumgart]

Thanks Rob! If I'm down in Beaverton soon, I will call you in advance. Larry

 

[J_J]

I would LOVE a utility grapple. PT charges $800 plus shipping for these. Gotta save up!

I would also love a 'grubbing bucket', which PT doesn't product, but is basically a really small bucket, mounted just like the regular light material or rock bucket, that is used for digging up stuff - it is a replacement for a hand shovel.

Sincerely,

Rob

Look at this. You might even be able to build one.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200356534_200356534

http://dai.ly/oUxMcP

http://www.youtube.com/v/Cbcezo8R8mE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3


This one is $129

https://www.foryourshore.com/index.cfm?carttoken=P94XQ2H080711014956&action=ViewCategory&Category=33

 

[smartguyz]

Look at this. You might even be able to build one.

Paumco Products Quick Spade — Model# 1100-Quick Spade | Skid-Steers + Attachments | Northern Tool + Equipment

Dailymotion - QUICK SPADE DEALER lowest prices - a News & Politics video

http://www.youtube.com/v/Cbcezo8R8mE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3


This one is $129

https://www.foryourshore.com/index.cfm?carttoken=P94XQ2H080711014956&action=ViewCategory&Category=33

Thanks so much JJ, you always have something interesting to show or say. Much appreciated.

Looks like I'd have to get the bucket model... I don't think that it will fit on the PT's non-adjustable forks?

-Rob

 

[karlbike]

for sale in WI
extreme brush mower
I'd consider getting it, but the lift is a bit anemic for the size of machine.
anyone know if you can just put the loader tires on it and beef up the lift arms and hydraulics or is it an entirely different chassis etc?

karl

 

[J_J]

Sure you could beef it up , but can the wheel motor shaft take the extra weight.

The lifting force has a safety factor built in so if you lift the rated load, the rear end will not come off the ground. You could load the rear end down and lift more, but you do it at your own risk. The hyd can do the job, and you could up the relief pressure, but you will have to know all the specifics to do all this.

 

[coolconnection]

Look at this. You might even be able to build one.

Paumco Products Quick Spade — Model# 1100-Quick Spade | Skid-Steers + Attachments | Northern Tool + Equipment

QUICK SPADE DEALER lowest prices - Video Dailymotion

http://www.youtube.com/v/Cbcezo8R8mE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3


This one is $129

https://www.foryourshore.com/index.cfm?carttoken=P94XQ2H080711014956&action=ViewCategory&Category=33

Ok I like that idea. Back hoe costs to much for me right now and I really don't need something that extravagant but I wonder how hard it would be to fabricate/make one fit a PT 425. A strong quick attach plate and a way for it to mount to it. Probably a smaller digger version so as not to overwork the tractor. Hmmm ideas anyone or has anyone made one yet for the PT 425? Don't be afraid to chime in.

 

[J_J]

You could make a smaller one of these.

 

[Marks481]

Or you could take a minihoe and figure out some way to flip the bucket around. Wouldn't that essentially be the same thng?

 

[SpringHollow]

Some nasty leverage would be trying to tweak your loader arms. I am not sure I would want to try that.

Ken

 

[washita]

I built a ''grubbing bucket'' similar to the one J J showed in the thumbnail, but mine does not have teeth and is shaped similar to a shovel I use mine on a 425, it sees more use than the mini-hoe, I used a frame cut-off from a international semi roughly 11'' wide and 20''long 5/16-3/8 thick steel, the frame rail had to be cut with a plasma cutter, if I can find the original pictures I will repost them, eventually I plan to add a grapple to this bucket next summer just have not had time yet to fabricate

 

[J_J]

Here are some pics of grapples on a stump bucket.

Also a slide on fork grapple.

 

[ponytug]

JJ- can you include links to where you found the photos? It would help us out.

Thanks,

Peter

 

[J_J]

These are photos that I have saved over the years.

One of the best tricks to get the label or manufacture, is to use Google and do an image search for tree spades, stump buckets, etc. I have heard they even have a search that you show a picture, and they try to match it with a name or site. etc.

http://www.paumco.com/quick_spade.htm

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/power-trac/131941-tree-spade-3.html

Will try and list the manufacturer as I find them.

I have to add, these things are expensive, and I posted them for reference if you wanted to build something similar, and they are on Ebay also.

If you draw the spade up, a metal fab shop can cut, and bent it for you and you weld, or they weld.

Meyers Built Skid Steer Loader Attachments: Skid Loader Attachments Tree Spades MeyersBuilt Tree Spoons

http://www.attachmentscjj.com/html/tree-spade.html

Most anyone should be able to make this shovel.

http://www.attachmentscjj.com/html/pallet-fork-spade.html

 

[pane056]

Hello;

Would one of you fine fellows provide me with a phone number for Power Trac. For the last three days there web site has not benn able to be accessed.

thank you, nicholas

 

[cqaigy2]

1-800 THE YARD there site does seem to be down. I googled power trac phone number and it listed a local number as well.

 

[Marks481]

I suspect that the thunderstorm last weekend is still affecting them (took out power to 20 million customers over 10 states). We finally got our phone lines back yesterday in VA, so they could very well be one of the many still without power and phones. Give it a few days.

http://bdtonline.com/local/x2004678...f-residents-in-two-Virginias-remain-powerless

Also, being the small company that they are, they probably shut down for a few days around the 4th of July anyway, so you might not get any response until Friday, regardless of when their power comes back.

 

[Clumber]

I also recall that the entire company takes a month off for a European style vacation each summer.

 

[MossRoad]

They might close for hunting season, too.

 

[Clumber]

I just received an email from someone who lives in Tazewell and son works for Power-Trac. They are on summer Vacation until Monday 9 July 2012.