[AT] A new one

[Cecil Bearden]

Here in OK west of I-35 we have the red clay that is left from the bed 
of the old Permian sea.  Our red soil has a 5 minute window of 
opportunity between being too wet and too dry to work.. When dry, the 
soil breaks up into very hard clods.  Those clods get into the tracks 
and when they get between the track and sprocket, the track stretches.  
Those tracks are not cheap.  I have a contractor friend who used Cat 
Challengers for a  long time pulling scrapers.  Every time he got a rock 
or hard clod in the tracks it was $10K for a track.  Now they only use 
them on sandy ground with no sandstone rocks.
Cecil

On 8/7/2019 11:04 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 8/7/2019 9:29 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>>
>> I am guessing $150K That is a lot of cows to sell to pay for one like 
>> that!
>> Cecil
>>
> That is a lot of tractor for sure and way out of my price range i'm 
> sure. For my little hobby farm I can only justify the 30+ year old JD 
> 2140. Its only 2 wheel drive and no cab but
>
> I got along just fine cleaning out my cattle shelter with the front 
> end loader today. Its a four speed, dual range with a shift on the go 
> hi-low in every gear. So in fact it is a 16
>
> forward, 4 reverse speed transmission. Got some video of it at work 
> today as well as some hay raking. I'll get it uploaded to youtube 
> eventually.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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