I’ll chime in here with a question, since I’m investigating trying to put together a couple of double barrel scrapers to finish a job. What started out as a dirt pan job ground to a halt with 50+ inches of rain last 4 months. Now I need to get back at it, but it’s going to be a while before the 200,000 lb tractor pans can stand up in the borrow area. So my old guy says let’s get some 627s, said they used them in Louisiana in swampy ground.(?). But I’m like you, I’ve found some old TS14Bs for cheap, and they’re lighter to boot. But will they do the job in gumbo clay?
Or, do I just need to haul a 350 excavator, three 25 and 30 ton artics, and a spreading dozer up there and try to topload and hope the 6x6 artics can wallow around enough to get out of the borrow area? Small job, really, need to move 50,000 yards of grass growing dirt to cover a large 4:1 slope in the next 45 days, if it quits raining.