Vacherie Saint
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Deere makes a beefed up tractor especially for pull-type scraper applications. It can handle the tongue weight and rides smoothe as glass compared to a cat scraper. It has nowhere near the longevity of a cat scraper, but you can put a fair amount of hours on it, swap it out and still come out cheaper than buying a new cat.
Pull-types are bar none, the cheapest way to move dirt and work in more conditions than alot of people think. I think much of the misconceptions come when you see a pan skimming 4 inches next to a cat cutting twice as deep per pass. However, at the end of the day, when you look at the haul and the money spent, the pull pans almost always win.
That said, the K-Tec concept, to me is not going to make sense over a cat once the dollars are counted. It treads too close to that cat niche market. If your going to run pull-type scrapers, you are almost always going to be better off running smaller tandems or even triples and letting the cats do what they do.
Pull-types are bar none, the cheapest way to move dirt and work in more conditions than alot of people think. I think much of the misconceptions come when you see a pan skimming 4 inches next to a cat cutting twice as deep per pass. However, at the end of the day, when you look at the haul and the money spent, the pull pans almost always win.
That said, the K-Tec concept, to me is not going to make sense over a cat once the dollars are counted. It treads too close to that cat niche market. If your going to run pull-type scrapers, you are almost always going to be better off running smaller tandems or even triples and letting the cats do what they do.