Marsh Mutt
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Got a few pictures to share about a very small scale pond digging project that has been inching along over the years, as I endeavored to revive three ancient Cat LGP tractors, without winding up in the poor-house from getting nickel and dimed to death in the process. Of my collection of old Cat Dozers, the D7G LGP has the smoothest running engine, and thus was the one I chose to get shod with brand new LGP tracks that were very recently installed
Couple of years back, my D4D tracor started off excavating a few ponds measuring about 100 meters by 40 meters, but then track problems grounded the D4D, which has now become another of those when-I-can-get-around-to-it projects, whose engine and hydraulics are only run once in a while to keep rust at bay. With the D7G ready for battle with its new tracks, I took her down to the swamp, to dig smaller ponds than before, and then to complete the larger ponds before anything mechanical went wrong with this decades old tractor.
Well I got as far as digging ten small ponds each about 40 feet square, before the usual gremlins started to appear, annoyingly before I could go back and do any grading, and just hours short of finishing up a particularly useful one of the larger ponds. Enclosed are some pictures of the rather hurried work done out here in the African sticks, as well as a couple of shots showing the surgeons at work replacing chewed PTO gears, whose purchase set me back a good chunk of change.
The rains are here early this year, so likely the D7G LGP will head home, where it will stay until the dry season rolls around. The D7G can be seen in the top aerial photograph, to the lower right of the shot.
Couple of years back, my D4D tracor started off excavating a few ponds measuring about 100 meters by 40 meters, but then track problems grounded the D4D, which has now become another of those when-I-can-get-around-to-it projects, whose engine and hydraulics are only run once in a while to keep rust at bay. With the D7G ready for battle with its new tracks, I took her down to the swamp, to dig smaller ponds than before, and then to complete the larger ponds before anything mechanical went wrong with this decades old tractor.
Well I got as far as digging ten small ponds each about 40 feet square, before the usual gremlins started to appear, annoyingly before I could go back and do any grading, and just hours short of finishing up a particularly useful one of the larger ponds. Enclosed are some pictures of the rather hurried work done out here in the African sticks, as well as a couple of shots showing the surgeons at work replacing chewed PTO gears, whose purchase set me back a good chunk of change.
The rains are here early this year, so likely the D7G LGP will head home, where it will stay until the dry season rolls around. The D7G can be seen in the top aerial photograph, to the lower right of the shot.
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