Posted by John_PA on July 27, 2012 at 00:15:47 from (96.236.160.186):
In Reply to: Toughest Tractor posted by big a on July 26, 2012 at 18:04:10:
Hear me out before you judge me, but...
Ford 7000
Weirton Steel in Weirton, WV just west of Pittsburgh, PA had a few skidder tractors pulling slabs. They were Ford 7000 all purpose tractors. They'd come into the dealership to get parts that no one ever broke. They tear the casting off the front, break axle trumpets, pop tires left and right and destroy rims, because, they would use the tractor to pull a hot slab (generally a 40,000lb slab) across the concrete and steel floor to teh rolling. They drove the tractors day and night, 3 shifts a day, and most of them had over 30,000 hours on them before a decade was out. Regardless, they kept using them until the wheels literally fell off.
The last of the Ford 7000 all purpose models they had was loaded onto a trailer with a magnet crane, and it is currently in tractor pulls winning prizes all over the place. It's got the pump turned up, the fuel tank outlet has been drilled bigger, and there are countless other things like a TW-15 clutch, but, it is still going...
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