Best Dozer?

Ive had that happen lots , it never seemed a problem I always assumed since a cat only has to lift one small tred from the grip of ice at a time that it wasnt a problem.

Can you explain more?

We have logging chains on the wheels of our farm tractor year round for traction. I, once, got frozen in. It took a bit of gentle back and forth movement to break the chains out of the ice. Since then I have always been careful to park where that won't happen.

I assume one would do the same with a dozer. No?

Cheers

-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
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I seen it happen. Right around this time of year. Started raining hard friday afternoon, worked up an inch of soupy mud on the skid trails & landing by quitting time. Got hit by an artic blast over the weekend, temps dropped from high 30's to -20 below. Monday morning the 225 cat loader & the JD690 processor were sitting on that frozen mud & weren't going nowhere, wouldn't budge. The Timco tree saw was off the landing abit & managed to break loose but huge chunks of duff was stuck to the grousers. The skidders got loose but one of them broke a tire chain. But that loader & processor were stuck fast.

We were working across a creek and moved across before the rain started here I closed the crossing haven't tried to move anything yet. What can happen with cold steel is you put it in gear and here a loud pop it can break the final drive gears On a tractor it would be called bull gears i think

Two, that's why I started parking carefully. So, I'm curious as to how they freed the two frozen in machines...

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The mechanic truck showed up with a couple of weed burners. It took half the day & 4 bottles of propane, but we finally got the steel warm enough for the tracks to let go of that frozen mud.

I bought a nice used Massey Ferguson 300 this year. It has been a great little machine. I can crumb around most trees and get them over., I bought it mainly to clean up after logging mess.I use it to drag tops up out of the hollers to a central cutting zone. I buried an old chicken house foundation last week. Built a small pond a few months ago.. Some days I just take it for a drive around the woods.We own on both sides of the road so I have kept a stash of old tires handy to drive across the asphalt,.
I would be more concerned with the condition over the size when making a large iron purchase.