<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 10, 2019, at 1:07 PM, Jack <<a href="mailto:jacktractor@live.com" class="">jacktractor@live.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Wide Caterpillar tracks!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/000/249/24995.jpg" style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/000/249/24995.jpg</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">That is a “special” D8 that Caterpillar made in the 1950s for use in the Arctic (Greenland mainly) and the Antarctic. It’s a Low Ground Pressure LGP-D8. As well as wide tracks, they also had the track length increased substantially by moving the engine forward from the rest of it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you’re on Facebook there’s a page that features lots of pictures of them</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Caterpillar-S-D8lgp-Dozer-on-Snow-and-Ice-350745131790392/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/Caterpillar-S-D8lgp-Dozer-on-Snow-and-Ice-350745131790392/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This picture from that page shows the increased length of them with the gap between the engine and the cab.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="11B2F7C0-D614-493C-8FCB-65FF5E337270" src="cid:F5BBEF47-258A-4A25-8545-4EF7A8A53D7A" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They have all been removed from Antarctica now, replaced by Challengers and Case IH 4 track machines</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Roger</div></body></html>