willie59
Administrator
Well special tool, I gotta hand it to ya, your the first I've seen that drew a comparison of work between a crawler dumper and a track loader.
And your point of using a track loader to do the same work, hauling material, may very well be more practical as well as cost effective in certain situations and payloads. Yes, these machines are a small payload for a reason, to do small tasks that don't require something the size of an artic truck. And particularly with the CD60R, it is a special application machine for sure. But for hauling heavy payload, the track loader won't compare to probably the most popular crawler dumpers, those being the Morooka MST-1500 with a payload of 13,000 lb moving at 7.5 mph and the MST-2200 with a payload of 22,000 lbs moving at 9 mph. Plus, the 2200 loaded only has a ground pressure of 5.7 psi with a 2 1/2 ft wide track, which allows them to go places machines like an artic truck or conventional dump trucks won't go.
We sold an MST-600, which is just 6,600 lb payload, to an outfit north of us that manages 72,000 acres of mountain land designated for off road recreational vehicles, trails out the wazoo. They use this machine, along with dozer, Bobcat, and excavator to maintain the trails and keep the land in EPA erosion compliance. They take that little Morooka through some goat trails to haul dirt, stone, and occasionally fill the bed with bales of hay with a hydroseeder hitched behind it to blow seed. Be kinda hard for a track loader to do what they ask their toy to do. I guess it comes down to all machines have their place. :cool2
And your point of using a track loader to do the same work, hauling material, may very well be more practical as well as cost effective in certain situations and payloads. Yes, these machines are a small payload for a reason, to do small tasks that don't require something the size of an artic truck. And particularly with the CD60R, it is a special application machine for sure. But for hauling heavy payload, the track loader won't compare to probably the most popular crawler dumpers, those being the Morooka MST-1500 with a payload of 13,000 lb moving at 7.5 mph and the MST-2200 with a payload of 22,000 lbs moving at 9 mph. Plus, the 2200 loaded only has a ground pressure of 5.7 psi with a 2 1/2 ft wide track, which allows them to go places machines like an artic truck or conventional dump trucks won't go.
We sold an MST-600, which is just 6,600 lb payload, to an outfit north of us that manages 72,000 acres of mountain land designated for off road recreational vehicles, trails out the wazoo. They use this machine, along with dozer, Bobcat, and excavator to maintain the trails and keep the land in EPA erosion compliance. They take that little Morooka through some goat trails to haul dirt, stone, and occasionally fill the bed with bales of hay with a hydroseeder hitched behind it to blow seed. Be kinda hard for a track loader to do what they ask their toy to do. I guess it comes down to all machines have their place. :cool2