Re: Re: Not a IH question-but it would pull my IH'

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 09, 2004 at 06:08:16 from (209.226.106.85):

In Reply to: Re: Not a IH question-but it would pull my IH's ar posted by rustyfarmall on January 09, 2004 at 04:56:31:

Rusty: Not so much the hp but rather torque at low rpm, Cat will out do them all in that dept. I remember the Cat manual saying don't make a habit of it but also don't be afraid to lug them to 800 or 1000 rpm. I hauled logs on ice-hard packed snow roads 1989 Western Star with 3306 Cat set at 300 hp. On many ocasion I found myself on hills that if you shifted gears you would spin out. What a great feeling to watch thet tach drop to 1000 and yes even 800 and then recover again even before you reached the crest of the hill. Interestingly enough on many of those hills if you spun out you could not hold it and down the hill you went backwards.

I remember early one morning 3 of us each loading our trucks 12 miles in the bush. Nothing but 12 miles of single lane hard packed snow ahead of us, temp was rising quite fast, We had been having sub zero weather. Suddenly as we finished loading it started raining, what seemed like a warm rain. It started building on the ground in the form of ice, just like flooding a rink. We agreed to all head out spaced far enough apart so if anyone came down a hill backwards no one would be in his way, but yet close enough we maintained radio contact. We were one happy bunch to see the main highway. One of my co-workers said, thank god for Catapillar.

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