Ya, but wouldn't it be fun to hook a chain from a PT to a 50hp skidsteer and see how effortlessly that PT would pull that skidsteer around?
We've had this discussion before many times. Sometimes you need brute force and traction. Sometimes you need light and nimble. Having owned an IH2500b for 10 years before owning my PT425, I know the difference.
No one with a PT will say it's a good traction machine when it comes to things like pulling a plow through dirt, or pulling stumps. I don't think they'd do well powering hay bailers. They will tell you the design of the machine makes it better at other tasks, like mowing, plowing snow, moving loose material from point A to point B, forklift, brush cutting, and generally able to run circles around a conventional tractor of the same weight in those types of tasks.
Look at the other machines that some of these PT owners have currently and have owned in the past. Pretty much all of them will tell you that each type of machine has it's place, and which type does what tasks better. If you want to have a pulling contest, find another 1500 pound machine and bring it over and I'll let them pull me all over the place on my PT425. Then pile up 20 yards of crushed limestone and let's see who can move it 100 yards fastest. Then we'll mow the lawn and brushog a couple miles of trails through uncut territory on my side slopes. Next, we can drag fifty-sixty 10-12" trees 1/4 mile. Now if you want to remove those 50-60 stumps, well, I can't pull them. Not possible. But I could grind them down with a stump grinder attachment.
The point is, each machine has it's place. The PT design just works better for me and my tasks than a conventional tractor does. Been there. Done that. Won't ever go back.
