450smrider
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Forgive my ignorance but why don't they use a high drive on this like the CAT? Also why does cat use the high drive? What is the advantage?
I ask this same question all the time.....
Forgive my ignorance but why don't they use a high drive on this like the CAT? Also why does cat use the high drive? What is the advantage?
Its good to see CAT get a little competition in this size tractor. But I think they will have a hard time moving many of these.
The Komatsu 155 doesn't sell as well as the D8.It seems that Deere and Komatsu are fairly competitive in the D6 size and down. Then Komatsu makes the larger 275 and up these seem to move. I don't think I would be afraid of the hydrostat , but it would weigh on cost to rebuild vs cost of a trans in a D8. It does seem these hydrostats are getting easy to diagnose due to onboard computers. I think the Komatsu and Deere have self diagnostic where as CAT you have to have the software. I have read where the Liebher version was kind of a lemon. This could get interesting .
Shimmy1, you must not be in rock country out there, with granite, limestone and shale for the plow guys to bang around in then, that and toss a few cowboys into the seat and kick that ground speed up a bit to say 7 mph and then stop it dead hitting large rocks. As for size of planetary drives, with enough hours and testing I'd think any company could and eventually will increase dozer size utilizing hydrostatic drives, by increasing planetary size and design on any machine, no matter the use. Just pointing out the plow industry has been using higher hp than any dozer for years with this concept, and every year increases both planetary size, machine size and hp due to ever increasing need for speed and efficiency installing tile.
Mestizo, thanks for the added photo's.