Taylortractornu
Charter Member
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2003
- Messages
- 481
- Location
- Iuka, Mississippi
- Occupation
- Privvate landfill operator/manager
Im trying very hard to accept tractor pans now, Ive worked a few jobs wit hthem mostly converted farms that go into dirt moving. I cant stand to run one too slow for me they are a bit more comfortable but they arent very manuveralbe to me plus they take longer to get out and usually have to be pulled. I ve seen some smller ones that did good but I worked for a company that had 12 of them. They were mostly new units but they had alot of trouble rear end going out and things like that. THe mechanic said that a self propelled scraper would tear the rear end out quicker than a tractor. I couldnt get him to realize we moved a million yards of dirt at the landfill with a 1975 762 JD scraper let alone how much it had moved before the land fill had it and we had no troubles. I know it costs more to buy a scraper and it has a little less cappacity thant some tractors can pull but I stll would rather have a selfcontained scraper.
THe first big job I was on with dad we took 2 worn out TS14B Terexes an the little 762 Paddle wheel and started on a 50 000 yard hill. The hill next to us another out fit got it and they brought in 4 new articulate Case/Stiegers a Cat Challenger,and a big articulated JD l of them had 2 new 24 yard pans. They told us how much cheaper and quicker theyed be doing the work. They stayed stuck, styed in each others way and so on. Ir was a pretty big job and in a few sockpiles youd always see on gettin drug off the side by the back pan. When they got hung they had to usually undo the rear pan then pull on it with a cable. When we got stuck dad usually just pushed us out with the D6. Mostly in the sand we never had to push load a Terex either.
I know a tractor isnt tied down to one Item only like a scraper but ive hardly seen many jobs that needed a multi use machine like that. Here alot of older farm tractors are cheap enough to have a disk or straw machine and sheeps foot and a tractor for each.
THe first big job I was on with dad we took 2 worn out TS14B Terexes an the little 762 Paddle wheel and started on a 50 000 yard hill. The hill next to us another out fit got it and they brought in 4 new articulate Case/Stiegers a Cat Challenger,and a big articulated JD l of them had 2 new 24 yard pans. They told us how much cheaper and quicker theyed be doing the work. They stayed stuck, styed in each others way and so on. Ir was a pretty big job and in a few sockpiles youd always see on gettin drug off the side by the back pan. When they got hung they had to usually undo the rear pan then pull on it with a cable. When we got stuck dad usually just pushed us out with the D6. Mostly in the sand we never had to push load a Terex either.
I know a tractor isnt tied down to one Item only like a scraper but ive hardly seen many jobs that needed a multi use machine like that. Here alot of older farm tractors are cheap enough to have a disk or straw machine and sheeps foot and a tractor for each.