Posted by Fixerupper on August 08, 2011 at 04:23:59 from (207.199.205.239):
In Reply to: Re: M4 pictures posted by GeneMO on August 07, 2011 at 20:41:51:
Don't know where this machine was based. The owner found it in Clear Lake Iowa. It had a boom added to it for unloading bridge beams from trucks. Yellow industrial had been painted over the military OD color and when I removed the yellow I found some lettering that would tell me where it had been based but it was too far gone to read. As I understand some of these machines were used to pull cable across the land by power line construction crews. One of the two junk machines I got parts off of had been used to skid logs.
A farmer a few miles from me bought a personell carrier that was a little smaller than this machine, to do field work with. The idea failed for a number of reasons. First reason was the engine wouldn't stay cool under steady load. Then there was the steering problem. These machines don't have steering clutches. You steer by lugging back on the brake lever only so if it's on a sidehill or wants to drift one way or the other the only way to correct it is to drag a steering brake. Then there's the weight. It's just plain heavy and the track treads are pretty narrow so I would imagine the compaction would be bad even though it's a track layer. The track pads sank into the grass pretty far shen I drove it to where I shot the pics. Jim
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