Summer Projects

Barryh · Jul 21, 2006

jfh28 said:
Main project this summer is cutting about a mile long hiking trail thru our woods. There is a ton of mountain juniper and young white pines in the way. Stump grinder is the main attachment I am using. It just rips right thru them. And then gets rid of the stumps. Biggest tree I've taken down with it has been around 4 inches and maybe 25 feet tall. Although I'm sure it could take out bigger ones I'm too chicken. I don't want to test the load capacity of the rops. The manuverability of the PT is a life saver in the woods since this trail is anything but straight.

Jack

Got any pictures of the progress? Would love to see the trail and work.

BobRip · Jul 21, 2006

Barryh said:
Yep finding the time is the hard thing. This is where I left off on mine, hard to tell with the lighting and all the junk on my work table. I see someone has already done what I had in mind.

Gravy with his rock popper is more the starting point of my ripper idea. I want to mainly use it for trenching and pulling up rocks and shale. From there I wanted to use it as a boom, winch, and add several other attachments.

Your boom pole looks very heavy duty.

I think we both need a bigger garage. I started to have one built, then my wife added brick and hip roof to match the house. This drove the cost through the hip roof and we cancelled. I am retiring next year and when I get a feel for how much it cost to be retired, maybe I will feel rich and then build the tool shed. (Right!).

Hey, the carrier kind of gives the PT the toolcat like feel with its bed in the back.
Please keep me informed of your progress.
Bob Rip

Barryh · Jul 21, 2006

BobRip said:
Your boom pole looks very heavy duty.

I think we both need a bigger garage. I started to have one built, then my wife added brick and hip roof to match the house. This drove the cost through the hip roof and we cancelled. I am retiring next year and when I get a feel for how much it cost to be retired, maybe I will feel rich and then build the tool shed. (Right!).

Hey, the carrier kind of gives the PT the toolcat like feel with its bed in the back.
Please keep me informed of your progress.
Bob Rip

LOL... I have to agree about the Garage. I have now stuffed my lawn tractor into the little shed with all of the garden tools. I have to almost take everything out just to use it. Along with my long list of things that never seem to get done, I also plan to enlarge my shed so that it can house my PT and tractor if need be.

The PT will probably stay in the garage though. Even though everything is insured, I worry about someone breaking into the shed and steeling it, even though that would be a hard thing go do. I know the carrier would be a handy thing right now. I just put every thing in the bucket or use a wooden pallet. I may copy your carrier idea some time, hope you don't mind.

BobRip · Jul 21, 2006

Borrow whatever idea you like. I did not build the carrier. It came from Harbor Freight and Salvage. I think it was around $50. The 2 inch receiver design is mine and still working very well.

Bob Rip

Barryh · Jul 21, 2006

BobRip said:
Borrow whatever idea you like. I did not build the carrier. It came from Harbor Freight and Salvage. I think it was around $50. The 2 inch receiver design is mine and still working very well.

Bob Rip

I know I've seen them, the idea to put it on the PT was yours. Have a good weekend it's back to work for me.