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Suggest you look on youtube for videos of the Fland Fl45 chinese made articulating loader. It uses a mechanical propulsion system that...

Strikes me as a case of the PT essentially being one big hydraulic system. Even if you found 4 electric gear motors of sufficient...

@ponytug Just had another thought! (Oh lort!) I have another lofty project in mind—I have a HF towable backhoe/trencher that’s a handy...

I agree! I are pretty neat units. I had no idea that they had gotten so cheap until I looked for @modro. The Yanmar units that I am more...

Yes sir, I understand. And agree. And yet…LOL here I am, STILL entertaining thoughts about it. Many times I haven’t done things in a...

In general, I am all for fixing up old equipment and getting them running, but for $3k-ish you could buy a dedicated dumper crawler with...

Hunting down a similar used variable volume pump might be possible, but of course comes with the caveat of "what happened to the donor...

Seeing our old unit sitting with the failed pump, I keep thinking about it and what might be able to be done with it…thought I’d ask...

Update: I got some time in last few days to do a little more work. I tried Terry’s advice, and it pretty much took care of things. Still...

If the operator puts the lip too far into the soil, the force required to cut the soil loose increases to the point where the tractor...

Minutes after my last post I decided to call Terry and ask about it—how it works and such. He told me to always start the float task...

Whoa…I went to ask about float and totally forgot I already had!! 🤪 On our old 2001 model, I “accidentally” discovered the float...

:ROFLMAO: I remember several times when I thought I was scooping something up, felt really good about it, then went to dump and there...

Having both traditional tractors along with Power Tracs, the design of the PT makes it more likely to ride up over the bucket mostly...

Thanks for that description. I have to do the same thing, watch the bucket and if it starts to ride up, tilt down a little and vice versa.