Moving our d10n

Way to go Keep those tracks turning! I Just parked the 8 last week and Happy holidays from Atwater. skinner

Yes, we use it to break up the hard pan and prep ground for vineyards and orchards on the central coast of California.

Pete, the first night we ran it 24hrs and realized we needed much more light to see at night than was supplied by the factory. We built those arms and attached them to the blade lift cyclinders and mounted several led lights. It would be nice to cut the blade in half or mount weights in front like the Central Valley boys do, and not have to take the blade off when moving. However every job I get on the coast is in the hills and we are always pushing rocks or dirt so I will continue removing blade prior to move.

Good to hear from you Jon Mark. We are usually rained out by now and done with fall ripping, but with no rain in sight we will keep plugging away at it.

Merry Christmas, Travis Hansen

Do you have to take the ROPS off for height or do they make you take it off for lower permit weight.

I have to take rops off because of height restrictions. Top of the cab is 13’. I have started leaving the trunnions on witch brings overall width to 12’2 when moving local and saves us time.

The locals here prefer to operate with a "Night Time Permit". I feel for the low bed operators around here; multiple moves and rarely does anyone have a flat/wide area to unload. Seems like everyone except me here has a D8,9L, 10 or even an 11. Some have even placed D10 decals on an 8 or 9 just to trick customers into paying for the extra horsepower......we had to start video taping jobs, as the low bidders often only sank the shank 2' so they could run second gear and cover more acres faster. Not nice to try and fool us!

The locals here prefer to operate with a "Night Time Permit". I feel for the low bed operators around here; multiple moves and rarely does anyone have a flat/wide area to unload. Seems like everyone except me here has a D8,9L, 10 or even an 11. Some have even placed D10 decals on an 8 or 9 just to trick customers into paying for the extra horsepower......we had to start video taping jobs, as the low bidders often only sank the shank 2' so they could run second gear and cover more acres faster. Not nice to try and fool us!

How do those power shifts hold up when they’re under constant load like that? They must be ok. Just curious.

BP.

Life is a little easier in Oz, just drive them onto a float fully rigged and GO. I had rakes made to a max of 5.5m so they didn't have to be removed.

Rather than putting 10 decals on an 8 or 9, we do the opposite to fool the scales, put 8 Decals on a 9 and so forth, they count the axles, look in there book for the weight of an 8, send you down the road. Don't remove the ROPS bars, just manage to stay under height, even with sweeps and canopy over the lot.

Powershift tractors cope with the constant load just fine, the finals are the things that suffer. Learnt very quickly to change final drive oil on the high tracks every 250 hours at same time engine oil is changed. Due to small volume of oil and the heat build up, the oil breaks down much quicker. Had an 8L with finals with over 20,000 hours by regular oil changes, others failed within 3,000 hours on 1,000 hour change intervals when used on constant drawbar load.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

The Mad Mouth From The South/The Grumpy Old Fart That's Not Very Smart