PT1845 PT1850 Production Mod History ?

[horse7]

I wouldn't want to test the hypothesis of an 1845 or 1850 dropping wheels over a wall and not sliding over. The 90" mower on the 1850 should be outside the wheels, but not by a lot, so you'd be running close to the edge. The boom mower would give some reach to do edges without getting close. (Money, of course.)
Sounds like a grand project. We will all be happy to recommend ways for you to spend more money on PT products.

I wouldn't want to test the sliding over premise either, something is likely to get bent! But that is better than tipping sideways over the edge with a tractor. Even with geogrid reinforcement in places, there is also the risk of edges weakening and collapsing, most of the terraces are designed to be only 8-12' wide. They could be designed to be arbitrarily strong, but cost becomes an issue (soil type is cossayuna gravel, so the soil type is suitable to start with).

The toys recommended have to have some utility-- I'd love to have a full sized backhoe, just cannot figure out how to get enough work for it to do. So I hire that work out, same for bulldozer work. The two PT implements that look useful are the rough cut mower and bucket. The knuckle boom mower looks fascinating for those hard to reach places, but it's pretty expensive, appears tedious to use, and I'm trying not to have anywhere that cannot be done with a regular hog plus minimal smaller machinery (like a string trimmer!).

Some of the PT digging implements might be useful though, it is only recently that the universe of possible machines has been narrowed down to the point that secondary features are worth the time to examine. The horizon is 6-12 months. Some of the slope ZTRs are possibilities also (but I like the hydraulic capabilities of the PT, for various reasons).

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

Today, in 90 plus heat, I built a drop jump for cross country horses. The ground was so dry and hard that I had to run the tiller over it four times before I could scoop it out with the bucket. I squared it up with the Lackender hoe - similar to mini hoe - augured a couple of holes and dropped three lengths of telephone pole behind posts. Result, two-foot high retaining wall for horses to jump up or down. The 1845 can't compete with dedicated digging machines, but this job only took three hours, with five or six PT attachment changes. You'll hire out less work than you think.

 

[MossRoad]

Today, in 90 plus heat, I built a drop jump for cross country horses. The ground was so dry and hard that I had to run the tiller over it four times before I could scoop it out with the bucket. I squared it up with the Lackender hoe - similar to mini hoe - augured a couple of holes and dropped three lengths of telephone pole behind posts. Result, two-foot high retaining wall for horses to jump up or down. The 1845 can't compete with dedicated digging machines, but this job only took three hours, with five or six PT attachment changes. You'll hire out less work than you think.

Its those implement changes that make the PT so useful. That was the main selling point for me.