Power of the PT

woodlandfarms · Jul 18, 2007

Well, love it or hate it, here are some results of roughly 8 hours of work. A before and after picture. Slope is around 22 degrees, with chunks that hit 30 or so... Besides the slope ability, I really like the turning radius and the front mower. Man it is an amazing machine when it works...

it is raining, so I am practicing welding... In the rain.. what the heck, no one liked the way I mowed ;-)

Carl

cqaigy2 · Jul 18, 2007

woodlandfarms said:
it is raining, so I am practicing welding... In the rain.. what the heck, no one liked the way I mowed ;-)
Carl

That's one thing i learned when moving to this area. If you wont do it in the rain then you may never get it done.

KentT · Jul 19, 2007

That's certainly an impressive Before >> After set of pictures...

I'm glad to hear that you're still impressed with the PT, despite all the minor problems you're having with it...

PBinWA · Jul 19, 2007

cqaigy2 said:
That's one thing i learned when moving to this area. If you wont do it in the rain then you may never get it done.

Amen! That's rule number 1 in the PNW!

cqaigy2 · Jul 22, 2007

woodlandfarms said:
Well, love it or hate it, here are some results of roughly 8 hours of work. A before and after picture. Slope is around 22 degrees, with chunks that hit 30 or so... Besides the slope ability, I really like the turning radius and the front mower. Man it is an amazing machine when it works...
Carl

I finally got the pictures download.

I said "Holy Crxp!", my wife said, "What?". "Look what that guy down in Woodland did with his BIG pt".

Grrrr · Jul 22, 2007

I'd say that is a pretty darned impressive set of tree munching pictures

That PT's very powerful for it's size and manouverability

Marks481 · Jul 22, 2007

woodlandfarms said:
it is raining, so I am practicing welding...

That is generally how I work... Welding lesson #1 of this weekend: shut the valve on top of the bottle when you are done (full bottle of argon disappeared overnight !#%&^. And airgas isn't open on the weekends to get another bottle.)

J_J · Jul 22, 2007

Tim_in_CT said:
That is generally how I work... Welding lesson #1 of this weekend: shut the valve on top of the bottle when you are done (full bottle of argon disappeared overnight !#%&^. And airgas isn't open on the weekends to get another bottle.)

Did you ever spray soapy water on all the fittings from your regulator or flow gage to the back of the welder? This procedure will prevent this from happening. Turning off the main valve, and bleeding the regulator is standard practice. You probably wonder how I know this. I did the same thing a long time ago. I am using STARGON for the welding gas. Has a little bit of O2 in it.

ponytug · Jul 23, 2007

I think it is one of the learning lessons all welders go through...

Just FYI, there are several different STARGONs. Make sure you get the one that matches what you intended to weld.
e.g. Stargon CS for carbon steel (contains O2)
Stargon SS for Stainless Steel (contains N2)

All the best,

Peter

J_J said:
Did you ever spray soapy water on all the fittings from your regulator or flow gage to the back of the welder? This procedure will prevent this from happening. Turning off the main valve, and bleeding the regulator is standard practice. You probably wonder how I know this. I did the same thing a long time ago. I am using STARGON for the welding gas. Has a little bit of O2 in it.

J_J · Jul 23, 2007

ponytug said:
I think it is one of the learning lessons all welders go through...

Just FYI, there are several different STARGONs. Make sure you get the one that matches what you intended to weld.
e.g. Stargon CS for carbon steel (contains O2)
Stargon SS for Stainless Steel (contains N2)

All the best,

Peter

I use the Argon-CO2-Oxygen mix. CS