PT-425 PROS & cons??

[FOURTEEN]

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Glad it hasn't affected your sense of humor!


What's the prognosis on your hands, if I may ask?

What sense of humor!!??!!



Don't know yet! After several thousand dollars, hours of needle insertions and electric shocks, and three 'specialists', they seem to have determined that I do not have LEMS, which is a degenerative incurable disorder. That's the good news!! The bad news is that they still do not know what the problem is, or how to treat it!!

I thought that I had figured it out myself, but the specialist said: "No! Doing that just makes you blind!!"!!

 

[MossRoad]

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Let's not go there, as I already wear glasses.

Best of luck with the specialists.

 

[BobRip]

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Best of luck, its scary when you don't know the cause of something. Might be minor, might be major.

 

[ldabe]

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Fourteen,
My family and I will be praying to the Lord Jesus Christ on your situation.

I hope an answer comes quickly.

God bless you and yours,
Abe.

 

[NJBill]

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Fourteen,
I simply want to add my wishes and prayers, that this interruption in your health life, is only a temporary lapse of the workings of the most ingenious machine in the world, the human body. Judging you from all the information which comes to us in " Pro's and Con's '", I could well imagine that you came up with the answer to help yourself, and I have a gut feeling it is still possible.
Especially of late I miss your simple, common sense, answers to so many complicated questions. The two which always come to mind, you wanted a safer footprint with the PT, simple, reverse the wheels for a wider stance. You hated carrying all that super hot Black steel around with you, simple, paint it all White. No complicated computations, just do it, thank you.
Fourteen, I know your better half, can operate the PT, but I'm sure she would rather you be in the seat, so I'm sure we are all waiting for you to come up with a fix. Hurry on back PLEASE.
Bill

 

[FOURTEEN]

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Thanks, folks, for all the good wishes!!

One of my rules of life is to “never worry about things that you can’t change”. I often spend hours researching, debating, and puzzling over some decision that I want to make, to find the best answer. But, to waste time worrying about whether cancer, heart, or terrorist is going to do me in - no thanks, that is just a waste of good energy!

As far as my Power Trac is concerned, with my weakness, I need it more now than ever! Recently we had a new electric range delivered that we had purchased online. The deliveryman said: “Wow!! I’m impressed! Even most businesses that I deliver to don’t have a forklift!!”! My Power Trac saved the day! Off the truck, across the driveway, through the garage, up over the stairs, into the back hallway, and onto the carpet, so my elderly wife and I could slide it into its new home in the kitchen. Without the Power Trac I would have had to wire the range up to cook in the driveway!!

I plan to look in on this forum periodically, and perhaps offer my (hopefully useful) opinions!

Well, got to go hide my wife’s shoes! My latest theory is that she will be easier to catch barefoot!

 

[ldabe]

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Fourteen,
Good attitude my friend. Just keep on keeping on.

Abe.

 

[FOURTEEN]

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One of my rules of life is to “never worry about things that you can’t change”.

OUCH!!

Last week while moving some large logs, the front of the grapple bucket found a low cut tree stump that I had overlooked. My forward speed immediately went from medium to full stop! Well actually the PT-425 made the full stop! Being snuggly seatbelted in, I continued forward strapped to the now folding seat! My head hit the ROPS bar, my belly got punched by the steering wheel, and both knees slammed into the steel dashboard! My head and belly have since recovered, but it still hurts to kneel!

For over three years I have worried and wondered about why Power Trac provided a folding seat! With the folding seat the seatbelt will keep me from falling off the seat laterally, but the seatbelt is rendered completely worthless if my movement is forward!! I can reach the grease fittings and hydraulic tank with the seat down, and seldom ever fold the seat forward except when washing it at the end of the day!

My seat no longer folds! I installed a ¼-20x1” bolt through each seat arm to hold the seat firmly in place and prevent it from folding. If I should want to fold the seat, I simply remove the tunnel plate, and then the bolts and aircraft nuts to allow the seat to fold. My head, belly, and knees are happier already!!



PS: Thanks for the kind wishes! My hands are getting a tiny bit better each day!

 

[BobRip]

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OUCH!!

Last week while moving some large logs, the front of the grapple bucket found a low cut tree stump that I had overlooked. My forward speed immediately went from medium to full stop! Well actually the PT-425 made the full stop! Being snuggly seatbelted in, I continued forward strapped to the now folding seat! My head hit the ROPS bar, my belly got punched by the steering wheel, and both knees slammed into the steel dashboard! My head and belly have since recovered, but it still hurts to kneel!

For over three years I have worried and wondered about why Power Trac provided a folding seat! With the folding seat the seatbelt will keep me from falling off the seat laterally, but the seatbelt is rendered completely worthless if my movement is forward!! I can reach the grease fittings and hydraulic tank with the seat down, and seldom ever fold the seat forward except when washing it at the end of the day!

My seat no longer folds! I installed a ¼-20x1” bolt through each seat arm to hold the seat firmly in place and prevent it from folding. If I should want to fold the seat, I simply remove the tunnel plate, and then the bolts and aircraft nuts to allow the seat to fold. My head, belly, and knees are happier already!!



PS: Thanks for the kind wishes! My hands are getting a tiny bit better each day!

Good safety improvement. I always figured that PT was just trying to keep you from launching out of the seat into what ever attachment is on the front. Could you put a long 1/4 rod through the holes so that you would not have to remove the cover to tilt the seat.

 

[FOURTEEN]

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Could you put a long 1/4 rod through the holes so that you would not have to remove the cover to tilt the seat.

Sure! I didn't have a rod, but I did have some bolts!

However, the rod would not have the shear strength of the properly tightened bolts. I'd hate to hit something again, and have the rod ends bend releasing the seat to fold forward anyway!! For the few times that I foresee wanting to fold the seat, I think that the bolts would be the preferred way to go!!

As you know, I have no fear of PT Pucker, but that is another instance where the folding seat acerbates the situation by dumping you forward onto the steering wheel just as you are trying to regain control!! A snug seatbelt attached to a solidly mounted seat will hold you in the proper position to effectively control the PT in nearly any situation!!