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Jonfarmer
09-16-2006 17:24:00
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Re: Should be buying Challenger stock!. in reply to Pitalplace, 09-16-2006 15:10:59
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They are noisy. I watched a MT765B pull last night, which is the 265hp version, the engine was quite noisy and they were pulling it in the 12,000lb class, which was not even breaking a sweat for this tractor, and they had it fully weighted to boot, so we are talking it weighs over 30,000lbs, since a farmer nearby bought that same model and pulls it in the 30,000lb class at the local fair, but he has to strip it down to make it. Anyways, it was a short 250ft track and he wanted to show it off to the crowd, so the salesmen shifted quickly through the gears and I could see he was getting tossed around in the cab quite a bit, it was a rough shifting tractor when you try to shift quick and I think he was also skipping every other gear, and of course it pulled that sled like it was a toy to the other end at road speed. I don't know if perhaps that one has the same feature as the 400 series tractors that he showed me earlier, that has a dial in it so you can adjust the agressivness of the shifting, when I asked why it had this, he said that some people don't want to wait for nice gradual shifts and would rather it be jerky so they could perform the speed or direction change alittle quicker, and he demonstrated that to me. I liked that MT455B, that was a nice 80hp tractor and I could easily see them selling. The thing with the track tractors is they are expensive, and yes they take fuel, but they are very powerful and have incredible pulling power, and when they are working right, you can get a whole lot done in very short time. Tracked vehicles have always had problems and broke down alot, even steel tracked bulldozers need constant work. I'll bet the 900 series wheeled versions of the larger track tractors would be pretty darn reliable, but not quite as good in the mud as the tracked ones.
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