Leaving tracks chock full of mud, muck, dirt ice, snow was a big time no-no, you do that once with any outfit I worked for, you would be out of a job the next day. When we worked in the winter, you cleaned the track frames off completely, and I will tell you that cleaning the tracks on a D8K, caked with wet sucking type of clay, was a chore, could take you an hour to do it right. A good operator would also make sure to keep an eye on things, like the carrier rollers, cause if they jam up, they will egg shape, they have to roll, I've seen idiots do that in good weather, one site there was some sheet metal from the debris laden fill on the job, had to get a torch to clean out the track frames, he had it so jammed up with junk, and it just came back from the cat dealer with a new undercarriage also was an 8K, the smaller tractors were a lot less work to clean off. We used to build staging areas on the job site to park equipment, crushed stone, never much trouble with tracks freezing to the ground.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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