Daniel Wiser
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Well I love my 1450 again. This thing is really a love hate relationship since the get. It's a pain to work on but works so well when I don't need to work on it. I need to move some dirt and topsoil to grade my yard up and fill in some divets and what not, so I'm going to build a clam shell for the blade for this year maybe a loader next year.
But anyways I was curious of what are these hydros really capable of? Is it worth adding a dual spool? The lift for the blade is kind of slow for the couple inches it moves but world still beat the pants off hand shoveling and toting buckets of dirt and mulch and what have you. I like the idea of adding the dual spool option but linear actuators are pretty affordable now and wires are easier to route than hard lines and hoses. I'm just not positive the Kohler charging system would keep up with heavy use opening and closing the clam bucket, it would get a couple minutes in between strokes but I'm not sure that's enough to build the charge back up or not?
I sure love this tractor when it makes it easy for me to love. But man does she like to fight when it's time to fix something, I swear when this tractor was designed someone was angry at home and decided to take it out on someone else lol, I get cut Everytime I reach in behind the dash or somewhere I have to work blind.
**Edit or p.s. or idk, after thought???**
I also considered adding a small alternator if I go the linear actuator route, this tractor doesn't have a deck or will be getting one so it would be easy to run a single wire gm alternator to keep up with the electric load. If needed. I do eventually want to build a proper loader but if this cheap o build works well I may keep it that way.
But anyways I was curious of what are these hydros really capable of? Is it worth adding a dual spool? The lift for the blade is kind of slow for the couple inches it moves but world still beat the pants off hand shoveling and toting buckets of dirt and mulch and what have you. I like the idea of adding the dual spool option but linear actuators are pretty affordable now and wires are easier to route than hard lines and hoses. I'm just not positive the Kohler charging system would keep up with heavy use opening and closing the clam bucket, it would get a couple minutes in between strokes but I'm not sure that's enough to build the charge back up or not?
I sure love this tractor when it makes it easy for me to love. But man does she like to fight when it's time to fix something, I swear when this tractor was designed someone was angry at home and decided to take it out on someone else lol, I get cut Everytime I reach in behind the dash or somewhere I have to work blind.
**Edit or p.s. or idk, after thought???**
I also considered adding a small alternator if I go the linear actuator route, this tractor doesn't have a deck or will be getting one so it would be easy to run a single wire gm alternator to keep up with the electric load. If needed. I do eventually want to build a proper loader but if this cheap o build works well I may keep it that way.
. I'm not real concerned about oem or keeping it original but any repairs or upgrades I want to be done right, and I don't want to make it junky looking, it's already going to be getting uglier when I make a custom seat to accommodate my wheelchair cushion and modify the left foot board. Any tips or tricks opinions or constructive criticism is welcome. I love learning, and being able to work on my own stuff. Thank you all for any ideas.
I was thinking the same thing lol. I had thought about just flipping the handle around it's already been welded back together and redrilled once. I'm using a bit of broken drill bit as a roll pin since my kit is currently MIA. I guess it's not like I'm going to be running a case 580 or anything bigger anymore anyway so I can just get used to the controls being opposite, would save time and money...
