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    Terry on using the Treadle

    I have been meaning to ask about something Terry told me when I was in Tazewell back in September. He said that the secret to going up hills was using a light touch on the treadle. The hydraulic wheel motors have their maximum torque at the slowest speed, so the slower you go, the steeper the...
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    Pushing Trailers?

    How well does pushing trailers with a PT work? The reason I ask is that one of the attachments I am considering if I get a 425 is the power dumper trailer. I have access to sand bars and gravel bars down in the creek bottom so the power dumper would allow me to grab gravel and sand for...
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    Hydraulic Breakers

    I keep thinking that a hydraulic breaker would be a great tool to with a PowerTrac. Crowder has a line of tools as well as Stanley Having spent some time this weekend working on a posthole with a prybar that had been made from a Model T axle, the idea of being able smack our lame excuse for...
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