hilly
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Blackwell,
Could you elaborate more on the improvement of the newer 1850.
Hilly
Could you elaborate more on the improvement of the newer 1850.
Hilly
PT 1845 & PT 1850
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The wheel motors are wet disc brake instead of open disc brakes. The wheel motors are slid further into the wheel, giving greater bearing life and eliminating the wheel extensions. The motors have 50% greater torque and the tram pump is larger resulting in only 2 mph slower, but improved traction. The pump uses a remote displacement control, thus no tram cable. Draft control, brakes, and tilt seat are operated thru a charging valve, thus not connected to tram circuit. Tilt seat cylinder reposistioned, works smoother. Hoses run under floor plates for eaiser repair and less strain on hose.
In general, a great machine made better.
EB
In general, a great machine made better.
EB
MikeOConnor
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- Joined
- Dec 16, 2002
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- 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.
About the prairie-mowing, prairie-maintenance stuff...
we're complete nut-cases about prairie restoration on our farm. Here's a link to a few pages that show some of the projects we're working on. basically, we've got about 150 acres of crop land that we're about half way through planting into prairies.
there are about a million schools of thought about how to do this. and everybody is extremely emphatic about whatever their notion is. "plant lots of seeds you'll get great results!" "don't plant lots of seeds, your prairie will come up too thick!" "burn it every year!" "don't burn it too much, it kills the insects!" "mow it a lot" "don't mow too much!" argh... who's to know what the right thing to do is??
all that said, here's what our current thinking is (it's changing all the time, and really hard to tell what's right because you have to wait 10 years to see the results).
- we plant fewer seeds rather than lots of seeds
- we plant as many forbs (flowers) as we can afford -- those rascals are expensive
- we don't burn at all, we use mowing in place of burning
- we mow like heck the first year (almost as often as you'd mow your lawn, fersure whenever there are weeds flowering)
- we back off on the mowing and only mow once or twice in years 2 and 3
- then we let the prairie plants do the heavy lifting for a few years...
and keep our fingers crossed -- as that's as far as we've gotten. we planted our first prairies about 5 years ago. that second set of links will show you the progress we've made, although the pictures stop at 2003 -- note to self; must update web site...
we're complete nut-cases about prairie restoration on our farm. Here's a link to a few pages that show some of the projects we're working on. basically, we've got about 150 acres of crop land that we're about half way through planting into prairies.
there are about a million schools of thought about how to do this. and everybody is extremely emphatic about whatever their notion is. "plant lots of seeds you'll get great results!" "don't plant lots of seeds, your prairie will come up too thick!" "burn it every year!" "don't burn it too much, it kills the insects!" "mow it a lot" "don't mow too much!" argh... who's to know what the right thing to do is??
all that said, here's what our current thinking is (it's changing all the time, and really hard to tell what's right because you have to wait 10 years to see the results).
- we plant fewer seeds rather than lots of seeds
- we plant as many forbs (flowers) as we can afford -- those rascals are expensive
- we don't burn at all, we use mowing in place of burning
- we mow like heck the first year (almost as often as you'd mow your lawn, fersure whenever there are weeds flowering)
- we back off on the mowing and only mow once or twice in years 2 and 3
- then we let the prairie plants do the heavy lifting for a few years...
and keep our fingers crossed -- as that's as far as we've gotten. we planted our first prairies about 5 years ago. that second set of links will show you the progress we've made, although the pictures stop at 2003 -- note to self; must update web site...
cqaigy
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there are about a million schools of thought about how to do this. </font>
It looks to me that what your doing is working. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
There are probably a million right ways to do it.
there are about a million schools of thought about how to do this. </font>
It looks to me that what your doing is working. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
There are probably a million right ways to do it.
