What did you do with your Power Trac today?

Industrial Toys · Mar 2, 2021

I have got a pile of those plastic skids for free from my Pharma customers. They generally have to dispose of them. There are all different kinds. Some super heavy you can barely lift and other you can lift with a finger. The light ones can be great for processing firewood. You can cut into them with your saw without worry and there are no nails.

cqaigy2 · Mar 3, 2021

I'd love to have some of those plastic ones. I've only seen a few, very durable and strong. It seems they would work well for ground contact, as compared to wooden ones.

SpringHollow · Mar 3, 2021

I much prefer the plastic pallets until they break. Pain to dispose of a plastic pallet vs burning a wooden pallet for heat. The other negative is they are slippery so I often have to strap down a load that would not slide on a wooden pallet. Normally, I try to avoid wooden pallets because inevitably they rot and/or a piece breaks off with nails in it. But I always keep a few around.

Ken

m5040 · Mar 3, 2021

Yeah, you can't do without having extra pallets around when you have a Power Trac with forks. Moves everything and you can see the forks to slide them right into the fork pockets.

m5040 · Mar 7, 2021

It followed me home

MossRoad · Mar 7, 2021

Nice!

cqaigy2 · Mar 7, 2021

Oh ya, that's nice!

PowerTracManiac · Mar 7, 2021

m5040 said:
It followed me home

AWESOME!
Glad to have another 1460 in the group.

woodlandfarms · Mar 8, 2021

Wait. Which 1460 did you buy?

m5040 · Mar 8, 2021

I bought a new one after looking at the used one. They repainted it all up pretty nice. No offer was made to try it out, seemed like look at it and decide. Maybe I could have drove it around. It is stored inside and didn't seem easy to get out, and was packed in so tight I couldn't even raise the loader. It has 4k hours and overdue for a timing belt (3k hour for the older model 1011 engine). The implements seemed nice until I thought that the bucket is so big it is good for parking lot snow or mulch loading, the mower is 90" wide which is too big to get around my area and the stump cutter is of minimal use - would have made it into a wheel trencher.