WOW those fenders look very heavy! They appear to be 1/2" plate?
Check Busters - go with it? Some of those are tough to find today. How can you compare a bucking bronco (D2 tailseat) to a well broke quarter horse (7U D4)? Quite the statement from JM who just loves those D2's!
The check breakers remain on it. In all my years of buying "stuff", I have only encountered one set ever for sale at an auction, and shocked to see them sell for over $800.00 by themselves! I might have to bring Professor Fugly to Tulare with my tandem Goble ridger and show folks how irrigation checks are put up. I know CTS wants this unit, but the pony starts too easily for a guy like him...JM
I’ve seen check breakers before what are they used for and is “check breakers” the correct terminology?
The ones pictured are flipped in the "up" position, when turned over to the lowered position, they push dirt out of the path of the track pads, for a smoother ride, say over a freshly made irrigation ridge. No climbing over a ridge or irrigation "check" that is 2' high, you can drive thru it, rather than over it. A must have for someone that uses an orchard machine for putting up irrigation ridges/checks/dikes. Even when cross disking an orchard, sometimes the disk isn't adjusted properly to keep the front gang from throwing a mound of dirt towards the tree head/berm, so its the same; the check breakers push the loose soil away and you don't get thrown off the machine climbing a hump. JM
Thank you Juiceman for the explanation I can totally visualize how they work, thereâs a D2 not far from me that has them on it. Iâm really slobbering over trying to acquire it! That would make no. 7 D2âs if I could equire it!
You had better make it "Lucky number 7" before someone else snags it! I have 5U 16,971 here as an orchard machine equipped with check breakers and live hydraulics, not to mention dual starting set up; pony and direct electric. Its a fun one to own and operate. JM
So looking at the pictures I took I wonder if the check breakers on this D2 are cat oem or aftermarket?