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Just wondering how many use Pt for commercail use and does it put up with daily use. I have a 1430 and put 700 hours in 18 month time. Mostly used in the fencing industry ( I use the auger, cement mixer, pallet forks, small bucket with homade grapple ) . I have had some problem like starter...

I have used my Auger on my Pt for a year and It didn't seem to last to long in New england soil and rocks. Has anyone put a bocat bit or any other kind of heavy duty auger on the Pt

Does any one have a Pt box blade , My neighbor has one on a ford tractor and it works better than his york rake

I have a duetz enging on a 1430 I spang a diesal leak yesterday a fuel hose was rubbing near the oil dipstick and wore away some of bolt it was rubbing against just thought i warn anyone it was an easy fix

My buddie has a big massey fergason tractor and we want to make fork exstenios for his 3' long by 4" wide 1" thick forks . We have some heavy duty 4"w by 1" thick 6' long channel iron that could fit over the forks and we could have 2 straps made to hold them on to the forks . The lift on...

I have a 1430 does anyone use a different filter other than the pt one.( PT cost $26 plus shipping and $50 limit) I looked at napa and found napa #1759 hydraulic filter that is the same size as pt filter but napa could not tell me if it was a suction filter or the other kind ,plus the rubber...

Today I took off the floor plates on my 1430 to clean the sticks and dirt out of the bottom and around the threadle and noticed I had more leg room. I am 6'tall and my knees hit the bottom of the dash board. So I drove around with them off and all I need to do is take the foot pedals and turn...

I was cutting down trees around the perimeter of a hay field , and was wondering what was a easy way to pick up the small branches. Would a york rake gather them up in piles, so I could scoup them up with my bucket. Any other Ideas? How about teeth on a bucket work if you back bladed?

I would like to take a grapple attachment from www.HORSTWELDING.com , the top half of the utility grapple , weld it to my forks and use my contol lever from my hydralic pin/mini-hoelever to control grapple. My question is the grapple attachment has two pistons , How should the hydraulics...

block heater or dipstick heater ? Well I live in new england and I going to use my 1430 ( duetz diesal) to move fire wood in winter . I have a dipstick heater and added winter fuel additive which sould help me on cold starts , does any one use anything else like block heaters?

Has anyone has experiance in using the pt 2430 in light escavating, lifting heavy objects off of tractor trailers(ie;fencing materails) stumpgring ( what size stumps how deep) and using the augers. I would like to take pt up on there free demo but i live in CT .Would consider any other info on...

I was looking at it last thursday and today the web page is not displayed. Tried search engines web addres nothing. Are they still in buisness?