"dpendzic" wrote:

can you explain the added gizmo's on the pads!--appears to be small round rods staggered added to each pad on each side but the left side seems to have something added to the grouser? would this be for ice on a steep side slope???

Yes those add-ons are most likely for winter work, helping to keep the machine from sliding sideways so easy on frozen ground and ice. Old timers around my area call those caulks (pronounced "corks") and they are still rather common to see on logging equipment today. The only other thing I would expect to see on a winter working machine is snow relief holes cut into the track pads, but this one doesn't have them.

"Sasquatch" wrote:

Yes those add-ons are most likely for winter work, helping to keep the machine from sliding sideways so easy on frozen ground and ice. Old timers around my area call those caulks (pronounced "corks") and they are still rather common to see on logging equipment today. The only other thing I would expect to see on a winter working machine is snow relief holes cut into the track pads, but this one doesn't have them.

Back when I was a kid dads then quite new D2 had links like that field welded onto the pads. We also had the cutouts for snow. Dad called them anti-pucker pads.

I saw the video, figured they were "corks" too!
He said they looked round so I figured on waiting to see if someone saw caulks or something else.
We had them on the D2 and the D6 but not on the D4.
Which was funny as we used the D4 more in winter than the D6?
I took a sideways ride about 30 yards on an old Cletrac on maybe a 15 degree incline of glare ice once!
What a ride!

Hi Torpex,
Just wondering if your tractor is still for sale

"D2 wrote:

Hi Torpex,
Just wondering if your tractor is still for sale

Hello, Yes, its still for sale.