So what would make you sell your machine

[Barryh]

Thanks cqaigy2
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[Barryh]

I just found one on my property a couple weeks ago. Well, two, but one was broken. As I've mentioned before, there's an old railroad grade and bridge on our property. I'm sure there were telephone and telegraph line poles along there. I still find railroad spikes and plates once in a while. The area is inaccessible on foot. The deer can't even get in there. But my little PT425 with the brush cutter can! It's brutal. The brush has claimed countless linchpins from my front wheel casters. I'm getting to the point where I'm just gonna put a bolt and nylon nut on them and stop replacing the pins.

Your property sounds like an adventure perfect for crawling around in a little 425 ..

 

[MossRoad]

It is. I've never driven it to the back corner yet... a bit much even for the mighty PT425! In fact, this is this is only the third time I've seen it in 29 years! If you look in the photo, on the left side, there's a bent tree and a straight tree. Look up on the escarpment between the two and there's a galvanized fence post with a faded foot of orange paint at the top. I'm standing on an old railroad siding bed next to the old main line. After I took that photo, I walked (crawled) up to the post, then walked the property line as best I could. Ripped my jeans and the skin on my right thigh in the brambles, but made it out. A goal this summer is to get a trail all the way around the perimeter; about 7/8 of a mile. I have it 3/4 finished, but that last part I'm kind of apprehensive about due to several ups and downs and a pick-up-sticks of downed locust and cherry. Should take me a full 6-7 hours with the PT425, brush cutter, forks and chainsaws to go 200 yards.

 

[MossRoad]

Here's another pic of the corner fence post.... up about 18'. And a typical honeysuckle bush to the right. The brush cutter would make quick work of it if it had to go.

 

[MossRoad]

To the right of that metal fence post is a wooden fence post. There's a lot of old barbed wire fence going off toward the neighbor's property, and on my property paralleling the railroad grade. Every once in a while I'll find a metal T post with the brush cutter. You know when you find one of those.... sparks and WHAM WHAM WHAM!!! :laughing:

 

[Barryh]

To the right of that metal fence post is a wooden fence post. There's a lot of old barbed wire fence going off toward the neighbor's property, and on my property paralleling the railroad grade. Every once in a while I'll find a metal T post with the brush cutter. You know when you find one of those.... sparks and WHAM WHAM WHAM!!! :laughing:

Man that is thick ... If you go straight back on the backside of our property it transcends into a no mans land, it looks very similar to your picture. Old downed barb wire fencing and very hilly, it runs down into a large creek .. I won't take my tractor back that far I have nightmares of it breaking down back there. I don't have anything but my truck to go back and rescue it :laughing:

But your property sure does look like it would be fun to explore... Have at it when your done with your trail post more pics..:thumbsup:

 

[ponytug]

My brush cutter has bolts on the front wheel casters. Never lost one. Never needed to even adjust the height.

I just found one on my property a couple weeks ago. Well, two, but one was broken. As I've mentioned before, there's an old railroad grade and bridge on our property. I'm sure there were telephone and telegraph line poles along there. I still find railroad spikes and plates once in a while. The area is inaccessible on foot. The deer can't even get in there. But my little PT425 with the brush cutter can! It's brutal. The brush has claimed countless linchpins from my front wheel casters. I'm getting to the point where I'm just gonna put a bolt and nylon nut on them and stop replacing the pins.

 

[MossRoad]

That settles it.... bolts!

 

[Dadnatron]

I like these little machines, but I wish they had a telescoping lift arm.

I have a 5100e and have been thinking of something smaller. I've been drawn to the Avant multiloader, mainly because of the versatility and compact nature. I'd like it for barn work and some small hillside mowing. If the Power Trac's had a telescoping (telehandler) type front arm lift, I'd be much more interested in them. Since I'm not ready to pull the trigger anyway, it isn't that I'd never get one, but I'm just trying to figure out how to get the most for my $$$.

I know PT has a BIG hillside mower, but how do the smaller units do on hills? I don't have an exact slope, but I know when I take my tractor across it, I feel a little tense. It is likely MUCH MILDER than it feels...

I need something for general Horse farm work and since I need a good solid mower for everything which can't be done with a batwing, I was going to get a ZTR mower. but... if I can get MORE utility for my money, I'd like to do so.

One thing I've been interested in is whether they would run a front end flail mower? I see a YouTube video with a T PT1460 with a huge flail... and the cut was unacceptable. Although, the grass was really tall. The cut made me think they hydraulics or system was underpowered.

 

[MossRoad]

Once you start telescoping out away from the unit, you either have to add weight to the machine to keep it from tipping on its nose, or move the lift point back further on the machine, which isn't possible on their articulated design as it currently sits.

Look at a compact telehandler. The boom is attached at the rear of the machine, not the front.