Used Attachements

[SCOTCHERS]

Looking to find a website , other than power trac's to find used power trac attachments.
I'm in the market for a few attachments.
Please let me know if anyone can help

Thanks

John

 

[woodlandfarms]

None that I know of, but why not just adapt a 3rd party to the PT. Generally cheap and simple... What is it you are looking for?

 

[SCOTCHERS]

Not sure what the "3rd party" means but I'm looking for a Tiller or Trencher that fits the Pt 425


Thanks for your help

 

[ernemats]

Look on power trac's web site under used equipment , there is quite a lot of attachments listed there with the power trac. Try calling some of the sellers and see if they would sell the attachments separately.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Not sure what the "3rd party" means but I'm looking for a Tiller or Trencher that fits the Pt 425


Thanks for your help

3rd party means someone elses attachment. There are not many straight hydraulic tillers that are as cheap cost wise as PT's. But you might find a nice grey market tiller, and attach a Hydraulic motor for much less than a new one. Same with a trencher, although I have not seen one.

For this, I would check Criagslist first.

 

[SnowRidge]

Looking to find a website , other than power trac's to find used power trac attachments.
I'm in the market for a few attachments.
Please let me know if anyone can help

Thanks

John

The only likely places are TBN, EBay, and CraigsList.

If you are registered with EBay, you can have them send you search results via email. You can also tell Google to tickle you through their alert system for the sites they index, which is pretty much the entire web. You do need a good understanding of how to manipulate Google search terms in order to get the kind of results you want.

It is possible to set up individual site alerts by including the "site:" search term. For example, to get an alert on anything Power Trac for sale on TBN, you might use "power trac" site:tractorbynet.com/classifieds/.

You can set up an alert for any Power Trac item for sale on any web site by using search terms like"power trac" "for sale" tractor tiller | trencher -track, but you will get a ton of false hits. There are a lot of things called a Power Trac out there. The search term "tractor" helps eliminate some of them, but may also eliminate valid hits if the seller didn't use the word in the ad.

 

[ToolcatWonka5610]

I agree with SnowRidge. I've only found used stuff on Ebay.
Also check Power Trac's used tractor page every so often. There's always something interesting sometimes.

 

[SnowRidge]

3rd party means someone elses attachment. There are not many straight hydraulic tillers that are as cheap cost wise as PT's. But you might find a nice grey market tiller, and attach a Hydraulic motor for much less than a new one. Same with a trencher, although I have not seen one.

For this, I would check Criagslist first.

I'm not sure a 3PTH tiller can be driven off of a PT-425. Tillers take a lot of power. The PT-425 PTO puts out slightly less than 12 horsepower, from which you have to subtract hose and motor losses. You would have maybe 10 net HP at the tiller's gearbox input, perhaps less.

The Power Trac tiller for the PT-425 is a relatively lightweight direct drive design, which avoids the right angle gearbox and chain/gears jackshaft to rotor losses of the mechanical 3PTH tillers.

For a PT-425 sized 3PTH tiller, it would cost probably $300 to $400 dollars to equip it with a hydraulic motor and hoses. Then you have to fabricate and install a QA plate and mount. Add those exenses to the cost of a used tiller, an item that doesn't come cheap, and you have an uncertain combination in used condition that may or may not work, but approaches the cost of a new Power Trac tiller.

Not a good idea in my book.

 

[J_J]

I'm not sure a 3PTH tiller can be driven off of a PT-425. Tillers take a lot of power. The PT-425 PTO puts out slightly less than 12 horsepower, from which you have to subtract hose and motor losses. You would have maybe 10 net HP at the tiller's gearbox input, perhaps less.

The Power Trac tiller for the PT-425 is a relatively lightweight direct drive design, which avoids the right angle gearbox and chain/gears jackshaft to rotor losses of the mechanical 3PTH tillers.

For a PT-425 sized 3PTH tiller, it would cost probably $300 to $400 dollars to equip it with a hydraulic motor and hoses. Then you have to fabricate and install a QA plate and mount. Add those exenses to the cost of a used tiller, an item that doesn't come cheap, and you have an uncertain combination in used condition that may or may not work, but approaches the cost of a new Power Trac tiller.

Not a good idea in my book.

Well, there is a possibility that a 48 in tiller with gearbox removed, and shaft going to the chain drive. You could then connect a hydraulic motor directly to the chain drive, and some of the losses would be minimized. 8 GPM @ 3000 psi equals how much HP.

 

[SnowRidge]

Well, there is a possibility that a 48 in tiller with gearbox removed, and shaft going to the chain drive. You could then connect a hydraulic motor directly to the chain drive, and some of the losses would be minimized. 8 GPM @ 3000 psi equals how much HP.

The PT-425 is rated at 8 GPM @2500 PSI.