Oliver OC3 crawler winter ride

Dan S (NY) · Jan 14, 2021

We took the Oliver crawler up to the snowmobile trail in the power line right of way to see how much activity there was after the first real snowfall and shot some video of the ride. Packing the trail with the crawler helps get the tractor up there later on.
Oliver OC3 crawler winter ride video

Absent Minded Farmer · Jan 14, 2021

That's some nice scenery! Thanks for the ride along.

Mike

wingnuttx · Jan 14, 2021

Very nice running Crawler and yes the scenery is remarkable. Wingnut

muleman51 · Jan 14, 2021

You need an old Heat Houser weather front on that then you'd be toasty. Nice ride along.

Janicholson · Jan 14, 2021

My uncle took a ride-a-long on an OC3 my dad and he owned. Crossing a asphalt driveway with a load of bricks in the Loader bucket after an Ice storm. The drive was about 12% grade. It went down the drive about 150 feet gaining speed crossed the two lane at the bottom between cars, and up the opposite bank about 40 feet before stopping. He was fine "kinda". People in cars were a bit nervous about any more coming down, or that one returning, but a few stopped and made sure he was OK.
Nice drive. Nice OC3 Jim

old · Jan 14, 2021

I learned years ago tracks and ice/snow one can go for a heck of a ride. Former neighbor back in 2007 when we had the ice storm figured he would drive his large dozier down the driveway to break up the ice on the hill. It had wide tracks as in 3 foot or so wide. He ended up taking one heck of a ride as he slid down the hill out of control

SVcummins · Jan 14, 2021

Great video thanks . I use to love to cruise around on my John Deere 420c in the really deep snow It would sink down about a foot and a way it would go .

larry@stinescorner · Jan 15, 2021

x2!!!

shinnery · Jan 15, 2021

I was going to ask if you were pulling a sled or wagon but your video answered that.
Looks like you could use a Heat Houser and rear view mirrors.
That looks about like it did around here Sunday but it is all gone now.

sms · Jan 15, 2021

I can tell a number of stories about that as we logged with crawlers. Winter was a great time to get logs out as they skid easy and stay clean but can be interesting.

JK-NY · Jan 15, 2021

Worst thing is getting to sliding sideways on the ice with a dozer. When I was young and worked for a site work contractor I got to see and experience a couple scary rides. Worst one was watching my boss’s son go sideways off the trailer when he was loading the larger bulldozer. It happened so fast he didn’t have time to react. Luckily it didn’t lay down on it’s side, it stopped one track on the ground and one on the trailer. After a while I understood why my employer didn’t like taking on much work in the winter, especially he hated to use the dozers. Between the short daylight, hard to start machines in the cold, having to scrape blades/buckets /tracks clean and parking the track machines on boards or old tires so they wouldn’t freeze to the ground and the extra risk of loading and hauling them on slippery roads it made for a lot less productivity and then add the chance of a snow storm moving in and stopping the job for a while and having to plow snow with the dozer to finish something that often he had priced by the job so that was often extra unpaid work for him.

Russ from MN · Jan 15, 2021

We had one of those when I was young, dad bought it to pack down logging roads so they would freeze faster. They are a very light crawler, will run over very soft ground. some people would bolt oak 2x4's to the pads to make the tracks wider.

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