those are street pads i think.
T-332 street plate . From LaVois book, Caterpillar Gas Tractor Restoration and Interchange Manual. Similar but not the same as the ICE AND DIRT GROUSER v-801
Street plates that are smashed in, should be flat.
Aha! Even a nube like me knows what a street plate is but those didn't look right and I didn't recognize them. I imagine running over rocks would do that to them, eh?
Yep, running over objects they weren't meant to run on. Allot of work, but maybe remove them and press them out again.