watglen
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2009
- Messages
- 1,324
- Location
- Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- Farmer, drainage and excavating contractor, Farm d
You seem to mention something about a plow and I take it then that you are using this machine in farming and not construction? The reason I ask is the right side front and rear track rollers are over 50% with the left side a lot less. Normally a machine doing a lot of blade pushing would were both front rollers more than the real while primarily ripping would wear the rear rollers more. I would not expect to see close to the same on one side front and back.
I can seen dragging disks across a field and making left hand turns twice to hit the next row loading up the right side a lot more than the left side.
Yep you are right on all that. The plow is a tile plow (see pics if you can) for farm drainage.
I am guessing that the first 6500 hrs of the machine's life were spent building those oil pump pads out in the bush in Alberta (There's a name for that kinda work???) The maint records say all the service was done out there, while the owner was in Toronto. After that I put the plow on it and that is basically all its done. The blade hardly gets dirty these days.
So I imagine the front rollers got their wear out west, then we did the wear on the rears.
That makes the most sense to me.
CAT is coming soon to have a look. Maybe a trained eye will see something we haven't noticed(I hope)