1850 Juevos

[woodlandfarms]

Just a quick note. I bought a combo sub soiler / Mold Board for the PT and my 3 pt adapter. The Sub Soiler is going to be used to pull water an electric to the wifes new greenhouse. THe moldboard is to dig small ditches.

I wanted to say that so far so VERY good. I was worried I would not have enough grunt and the 1850 has pulled like a champ. Now my ground is soft for the most part, but I successfully destroyed one of my neighbors drain pipes while digging a ditch behind his shop.

Carl

 

[MossRoad]

Congratulations on the drain pipe! :laughing:

Send some pics of the implement if you get a chance. :thumbsup:

 

[SpringHollow]

Definitely a right of passage!

 

[cqaigy2]

Definitely a right of passage!

Nice Job!

I minus a drain pipe from my shop.

 

[woodlandfarms]

I would like to add something to this. I watch a buddy of mine with a normal tractor use the mold board and he pulls a straight line. But because you have to back up and the PT is articulated, your ditches look like you are a drunk.

Will get pictures tomorrow int he sun (WAIT I am in Washington - In the haze).

Carl

 

[ponytug]

Dear Carl,

I can relate. Ditch digging is a similar exercise in rubbing your stomach and patting your head to get it straight. On my soil, variance in density, e.g. rocks, tends to knock the tractor askew. If I'm not paying attention, it is easy to wander. I find it got better with practice, but it is not as easy to do a straight line as a frame mounted trencher like a DitchWitch. Then again, I couldn't get a one of those where I use mine.

All the best,

Peter

I would like to add something to this. I watch a buddy of mine with a normal tractor use the mold board and he pulls a straight line. But because you have to back up and the PT is articulated, your ditches look like you are a drunk.

Will get pictures tomorrow int he sun (WAIT I am in Washington - In the haze).

Carl

 

[MossRoad]

I would like to add something to this. I watch a buddy of mine with a normal tractor use the mold board and he pulls a straight line. But because you have to back up and the PT is articulated, your ditches look like you are a drunk.

Will get pictures tomorrow int he sun (WAIT I am in Washington - In the haze).

Carl

Can you turn it around and push it?

 

[SpringHollow]

From my experience, pushing things in the ground with the PT puts a lot of strain on the loader arms etc.

Ken

 

[woodlandfarms]

I feel terrible guys, I got a job budgeting a movie for the US Army. Was all done and they sent me "their" budget form. OMG. I get why our government is in trouble. I could have charged for a 10K toilet seat and no one would have known. Anyway, I lost the short day and did not get a picture and am back to LA tomorrow early. Will get you a picture when I get back up.

As Ken said, pushing this would end baddly.

 

[J_J]

Can you turn it around and push it?

I actually tried to push a subsoiler on the front.

At full depth it would not push. Had to raise it up a bit.

 

[SELKIRK]

I would like to add something to this. I watch a buddy of mine with a normal tractor use the mold board and he pulls a straight line. But because you have to back up and the PT is articulated, your ditches look like you are a drunk.

Will get pictures tomorrow int he sun (WAIT I am in Washington - In the haze).

Carl

If you need a straight line-cheat with a cheap bag of flour. Mark a line with the flour then back over, works great.

Selkirk

 

[MossRoad]

Back around 2002 I made a soil slicer for my PT425. It was just a plow share from TSC. I got the longest one I could find. I push it all the time. It is 12" long but can only go about 10"deep due to the FEL arms won't go any lower.

In our sandy soil, I can do it in one pass. In the hard packed ball park diamonds that I was rehabbing, I could sometimes only go an inch or two at a time.

By pushing it, I could trace over my previous path exactly as I can see it from the operator's seat.

I have snapped those bolts a few times. I figure it is like a shear pin. If I snap the bolts, I was pushing too hard.

The last project I did with it I pulled a water line from my garden to my house. I had to make an S shaped path to go around some fruit trees. Our soil is mostly sand, so I did it on one pass. Then I went back and tied a rope through the bottom hole on the plow share and retraced the first slice while I pulled in a 100 foot section of plastic pipe that was tied to the rope. I was really surprised at how little friction was in the soil, as after I was done, out of curiosity, I pulled on the plastic pipe with my hand and I was able to pull the whole 100' section in a curved path by hand with ease.

Anyhow, I would be surprised if the larger units couldn't do the same thing with a much larger plow share.