Where's the passenger seat?

Phils · Oct 14, 2004

Where\'s the passenger seat?

As I mentioned in another post (with no answers) my wife wants to know how WE can traverse our trails on the PT. I don't see any way to mount a second seat on the unit. I mentioned bolting a kitchen chair to a pallet and lifting it with forks and giving her a ride she wouldn't soon forget. Another option that comes to my mind is buying a cheep pull trailer from Home Depot or Lowes and putting a chair in it.

What do you all do?

MossRoad · Oct 14, 2004

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I tell 'em to walk, it's good for them. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I have taken the kids on a hay ride in our little cart behind our lawn tractor. But our PT425 has the exhaust pointing straight back, so that is no fun for them.

Let's face it, the PT is a solo unit. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Phils · Oct 14, 2004

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My understanding is that the 422 has the exhaust out the side? Of course, I also understand that specifications on these machines can change for each assembly run?

Phil

FOURTEEN · Oct 14, 2004

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"" I also understand that specifications on these machines can change for each assembly run? ""

I hope that this is a continual search for the perfect Power Trac!!!!

PS: My 70 year old wife follows me through the trails on her ATV!!

MossRoad · Oct 14, 2004

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Hey, Fourteen. You and your spouse know how to enjoy life! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Schultz · Oct 15, 2004

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This remided me of a bunch of pictures someone emailed me. They looked like they were taken in Russia or that area anyway. One of them was a guy driving a tractor pulling a cart and the women were sitting in this caged cart likely a livestock cart. If I can find it I'll post it. Pretty funney looking.

J_J · Oct 15, 2004

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I really can't see any safe way to add an extra seat. That said, you could purchase one of those tractor seats from Ebay for around $80.00, and attach it to the top of the forks with a pallet for foot rest. The one that I bought moves up and down on a spring. You could even put a bench seat on the forks, and ride more than one.

You could even let her drive, and you sit out front.

The negatives to this are, the one out front clears out the spider webs. The ride is a little rougher.

Charlie_Iliff · Oct 15, 2004

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Phil:
With a mini-hoe or Lackender, a passenger seat is easy. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

CLICK

Phils · Oct 15, 2004

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Thanks, Charlie, I love it!! Why didn't I think of that?

Phil

MossRoad · Oct 15, 2004

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Nice, Charlie! Yeeee Haaaa!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

FOURTEEN · Oct 16, 2004

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Absolutely!!! If it isn't fun, why do it??!!??

" So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. "

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dbetts · Oct 16, 2004

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I've found the best way for kids to take a ride is to attach the small bucket to the pt (I don't have a 10 cu ft bucket) and tip it down they can sit on the flat surface and the teeth are pointed down . They can hold onto the hydraulic ram for support. I used to have them sit in the bucket but I get very nervous about the tendency to tip forward and was imagining a limb getting caught under the bucket and having a serious injury. With our 425 the exhaust is out the sides and I have given rides in the wagon as well. None of these riding options appeals to my wife, and she always declines the invitation to ride even when it means walking up our big hill.

MossRoad · Oct 16, 2004

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Well, back to being safety police again... no bucket rides at our house. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

cqaigy · Oct 16, 2004

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 So live, that when thy summons comes to join 

Ah ha!!
Caught ya, you do to do other things then play(er work) on your power track. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

You must spend some time reading too. Prose can certainly paint a wonderful picture.

cqaigy · Oct 16, 2004

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Well, back to being safety police again... no bucket rides at our house. 

I'd have to agree w/MR, there is an element of risk with bucket rides, I saw a back-hoe move a load of gravel, blow a hose and the bucket came down pretty darn quick./forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Now I don't know how fast it would have dropped with a much lighter load of say a person or two but it convinced me to be wary when I rode in them. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

FOURTEEN · Oct 16, 2004

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"" Well, back to being safety police again... no bucket rides at our house. ""

If you grab 2 or 3 kids with the grapple bucket, they can't fall out!!!! Always wear hearing protection, however, since screaming children can cause hearing loss in adults!!

Teenagers may enjoy 'surfing' on the canopy!! Although they will be in little danger of drowning, require that they wear life vests anyway, just to play it safe!!

Since the PT-425 does not have fenders, your mother-in-law will need to be tied across the engine cover! Hearing protection will also be needed, since old ladies can scream at the same intensity as kids!!

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FOURTEEN · Oct 16, 2004

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"" Prose can certainly paint a wonderful picture. ""

True, however, the quote is from William Cullen Bryant's poem "THANATOPSIS" (a view of death), which he wrote at age 17 in 1814. Bryant enlarged "Thanatopsis" in 1821 adding the final injunction which I have quoted here. At the same age I memorized it in high school, and have used it as a life plan ever since! Attenuating the dread of death has allowed me to more fully enjoy life!!

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markct · Oct 26, 2004

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i think you guys may be thinking the wrong way in the danger of riding in a loader bucket, its not the fact of the loader dropping unexpectedly so much as it is falling out and getting run over since your infront of the tractor, thats what makes it so dangerous, if they fall out of a wagon then they just hit the ground, of course i will admit to having rode in a loader bucket a few times, one time it was even on the road for a few miles with 4 other guys, however that was in a bucket that was on a huge payloader, it was tilted all the way back so it woulda been real hard to fall out of, you could barely climb out of it if ya wanted to without tilting it forward