[AT] Clark Airborne Dozer

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Thu Jan 3 21:50:47 PST 2008


Do you remember when some types of tanker trucks used to drag a chain under 
them?

Charlie
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From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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> The nice thing about a crawler is that if would generally have a good
> ground in case you wanted to put a lightning rod on it...   ;-)   If you
> put a rod on a rubber tired tractor you would have to drag a ground rod
> along behind you...   :-)
> I say that in jest but actually it is recommended to ground a tractor when
> doing belt work to ground out a possible static charge. Some of the old
> manuals recommended hanging a chain from the frame of a rubber tired
> tractor. I never saw that recommendation for one on steel.   :-)   We did
> most hay blower belt work with a 9N or the TO-20. I used to just lean the 
> 3
> point Ford/Ferguson drawbar against the tractor somewhere.
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