farm tractors and pans

[Duramax]

The farm tractors look impressive but add 10 years of age to them and see witch one is still hauling dirt the conventional will still be going in 20 plus. But that being said they all have there place.

 

[vapor300]

You are very right, the deere are done around 5000 hrs if that, but there resale value is very good. A few outfits around here will buy the deere run them to 4k-5k hours and sell them.

 

[mitchell2905]

All the big coal mines around here are switching to the ag tractors and pans. Ill try to get some pics very soon. It is a mixture of Deere, Case, and Cat. Mixtures of both wheel and tracks. Mixtures of 1, 2, and 3 pans behind the units.

 

[Bluetop Man]

There's a story about farm pans. A conventional scraper contractor won a contract for the site work on a huge big box store in the Midwest. He hauled in his stuff and went to work. Dirt flew in all directions, as motor scrapers can really bulk dirt bar none. Meantime, the second low bidder showed up with a fleet of ag tractors and pans. Parked them and just waited, day after day. Finally, the first guy bailed, and the pan guy went to work, finishing the job. I got this from a Deere dealer I know quite well, and I figure it's pretty straight up info he picked up at a dealer conference.

I fooled with some ag tractor pans on a federal road job. The aren't worth the pot I **** in daily insofar as work and craftsmanship go. But they will skin a conventional scraper operation nine different ways on simple site work. Buy them new with new pans, run to 3,000+ hours and sell the entire POS at auction.

The cutting must be as long as the distance between the rear tires, outside edge to outside edge, and only two rear tires. Any other configuration and they won't hold a slope and you will work your a$$ to death keeping cuts and the fill in order on a road job.

 

[Oxbow]

There's a story about farm pans. A conventional scraper contractor won a contract for the site work on a huge big box store in the Midwest. He hauled in his stuff and went to work. Dirt flew in all directions, as motor scrapers can really bulk dirt bar none. Meantime, the second low bidder showed up with a fleet of ag tractors and pans. Parked them and just waited, day after day. Finally, the first guy bailed, and the pan guy went to work, finishing the job. I got this from a Deere dealer I know quite well, and I figure it's pretty straight up info he picked up at a dealer conference.

I believe there must be more to this story than conventional scrapers vs. ag tractors/pans.