Maintenance is mostly habit. I've got some bad habits in that regard as well. It's kinda a catch 22 some days. It's easy enough to run over the loader with a grease gun, but when you get a machine that HAS to run sporadically throughout the day, every day for months on end it can get difficult to find time to do other things. I get leary of pulling wheels through the winter because I'm tired of working in a snowbank... and you break a bunch of studs off, then you go to town for parts and next thing you know a 20 minute job turned into an all day affair. It's not a big deal if there's a backup machine around.... but I've had days where that was laid up, or sometimes months where it was laid up or away from home, etc. That's the worst thing about any machine around a farm that's used in caring for animals... then as you say, there's times people just don't look after stuff too. I think we all have a bit of that in us.
Cat or Berco SALT track chains are good to a point too... but many a chain died before it's time because the seals failed. We changed a set at ~2500 hours or so because of that. In some applications they last a long time and in others they last a very short time. depends on how much twisting the chain gets. Rock work is hard on chain...
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