nice day to work on a tractor

ericlb · Dec 15, 2008

the hi today was 20 degrees with blowing flurries,got my trucking done by noon, as all the other customers had sence enough to stay inside and warm, so this it the time the companies d-8-r decides to break a track pin,and run the track halfway off the machine just for fun, but of course it didnt do it down in the pit or up on the road, it does it halfway down the trail to the bottom, the trail is about 3 feet wider than the 12'6 blade, so about 4 of us spent the rest of the day fixing it, only thing we could do is get a pin out of some old tracks off a d8-k we have and grind it down so it will slide in the ends of the chains and weld the outer ends to the chain,[ middle chain eyes are free to piviot] but at least we got the dozer down off the ledge,ordered new track chains, 6 grand each, now if i can ever get warm again

ericlb · Dec 15, 2008

should have mentioned the spot the dozer was stopped in was 40 feet down from the top and about 60 to 70 feet up from the bottom, nice steep dozer ramp to climb up and down on foot

Andy Motteberg · Dec 15, 2008

Can't work on my tractors for a while, very cold, windy and getting a lot of snow. It is 17 below 0 and it is going to get colder

super99 · Dec 16, 2008

Think I read somewhere that there is a law that states it is illegal for a track to come off or break a pin on flat, dry land. Chris

nice day to work on a tractor

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