CUT Interloper

[Sedgewood]

<font color="red"> Hee hee. But in all honesty, when you look at the box blade in the pictures on the web, I also thought it looked kind of weeny, but definately no prissyfied
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Kind of weeny, prissified, yeah, if you guys mean as in too light. That's one PT attachment I passed on. At the time, I thought I was going a bit overboard when I bought my Bush Hog SBX 720. But at 600 lbs it too turns out to be too light. I've laid an old 200lb lumber wagon axle across the top and it's still a bit light. But even so I've still roughed out and gravelled a few hundred feet of driveway with it. Not as fast as a guy on a dozer, but it's done. Generally I think PT's attachments are pretty heavily built but a box blade needs plain old heft to do any serious ripping. If I had it to do over again I'd look for a heavier box blade, one in the 1,000 lb range (for my 1845).

Sedgewood

 

[Sedgewood]

<font color="red"> Doug:
I suspect that if you took a drive over to East Chatham, John Coxon, AKA Sedgewood, would let you do some eyeball comparison of his PT 1845 and his conventional tractor. </font>

Sure, Doug, come on over. But don't expect to find a conventional tractor. After realizing I hadn't even started my once beloved IH484 in a year after I bought the 1845, and then only to drag the fire damaged PT out of the field, I sold it. Either my judgement needs a tuneup or that's a pretty good PT endorsement. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Sedgewood

 

[davesisk]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Doug:
Sedgewood...[is] the board's specialist in heat and stress testing. (Bubenberg does the aerobatics.) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

ROTF. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Let me translate this: Sedgewood could break an anvil with a rubber hammer! Can you imagine what this guy can do with a big PT and plethora of attachments? (Just kidding, John! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )

 

[pajoube]

MR
Here are some pictures of the box blade. This past week I have been using my box blade for three different projects. One was to level the driveway for the new garage, pull loose rock into a pile, and cover a long trench project.

 

[pajoube]

1/4 inch thick steel makes for one very tough attachment.
PJ

 

[pajoube]

Split blade for forward work or reverse work. Most of my work had been in reverse. The forward blade works very well to push into a pile.
PJ

 

[pajoube]

Top view.
PJ

 

[pajoube]

Rear view.
PJ

 

[MossRoad]

Thanks, Paul. Those photos look alot better than the ones on the factory website.

Do the teeth fold up or something?

 

[DAP]

Well, if that was indeed an invitation ... thank you very much. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Don't ya hate it when other folks invite strangers to YOUR house! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Should I decide to take you up on it, I'll let Charlie know! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Actually, as I read through these posts, something occurs to me. If I had a nickle for each time someone or someone's associate alluded to tractor color, I have a about 200,000 smackers.

I've realized that probably more than most are willing to admit, there is an aesthetic involved in this tractor bidness. I'm sure the conventional tractor lovers find that style of machine 'appealing'.

Not unlike myself, the unorthodox-ness of an articulating (my subjectivity talking?) machine has a completely different but quantitative amount of appeal to others. I believe it to be a personality 'thing'. They DO represent a exodus from some supposed standard of normalcy as far as tractors go. It has yet to be proven (to the majority) that this 'deviation' is just and sensible.

Be interesting to mount a study: "What kind of individual prefers an articulating tractor?" I'll bet that not only would there actually be some answers, but they would be interesting in and of themselves.

Good ideas aren't always realized overnight nor do, as someone else pointed out using the beta/VHS example, they always prevail.

I know NH engineers an articulating machine but it's way up at the end of the product line. Imagine what TBN will look like if Kubota or JD start making ACUTs. Since consumers seem only too happy to sacrafice their autonomy in the free market experiment known as capatalism, I'll bet the traditional tractor fiends would take a beating from the rest of the board!

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It certainly is time for me to shut my hole methinks.

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[Bob_Skurka]

Doug I agree with you that the looks/aesthetics of the tractor play an important part in the buying decision. Most people gravitate toward conventional things, why do you think so many homes today are clad with taupe vinyl siding? Many people don't want to stand out, and those who do, often choose to stand out in a normal way.

The unusual person is often shunned, the interesting thing I've seen and read while doing research prior to buying my newest tractor was that many people imply that PT tractors are mere toys not to be take seriously when in fact they are very capable machines that can likely outwork most other machines available. Many of those who defend PT seem to almost evangilize the virtures of the machines, which seems to be no different than those who scream BUY ORANGE! in the Kubota forum or scream BUY THE RIGHT ORANGE in the Kioti forum; the reality is the Kubota & Kioti (et al) screamers seem to scream for the sake of brand loyalty while the PT evangalists seem to scream out the virutes of their equipment.

Me, I recognize that the hood on my Kubota blocks my view when using the FEL and I complain about it. . . my NH is a great machine but my knee turns off the lights when I spin in my seat to see behind me, and even my brand new Ventrac has its warts (seems to guzzle gas). But I am glad to evangilze about the brands I own if I can do so in an objective manner, which I try to do.

 

[pajoube]

I have not used the teeth as yet (no need) but they do fold up. Remove one set of bolts to lower then replace bolts and your ready to start digging.
PJ

 

[Sedgewood]

<font color="red"> Well, if that was indeed an invitation ... thank you very much. Don't ya hate it when other folks invite strangers to YOUR house! Should I decide to take you up on it, I'll let Charlie know!
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It is indeed but maybe I'm infringing a bit on Charlie's territory here. Maybe I'd better let him speak for me /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Sedgewood

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

<font color="red"> It is indeed but maybe I'm infringing a bit on Charlie's territory here. Maybe I'd better let him speak for me </font>

Oh, by the way - did Bubenberg tell you how much of your money he spent in Tazewell a couple of weeks ago? Since I've been appointed your social secretary, he took over as Chancellor of your Exchequer. We stand ready to serve. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif