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I had a little Cletrac crawler that was an ag tractor that I put a blade on .The little pup only weighed about 4000 pounds but would walk over mud that you would sink to your knees if you tried to wade through it . It would literally walk over a snow drift too . I never ever got that one stuck...

I remember as a boy seeing the big crawlers working the marsh grounds around Alger and McGuffey Ohio .It was once a huge swamp and once drained was and still is some of the richest farm land in the USA . Because of the loamy soils they used huge crawlers ,TD 25 IH's and D9 Cats pulling some of...

If I'm not mistaked,Goodyear in St Marys Ohio makes those webs for the rubber tracked ag crawlers .In addition they make conveyer belting and tank tracks for the Abrams tank . That aside I think you can get the rubber webs refurbished .They claim that in the long run those Cat challangers were...

They also had Holt /Rafakus in Toledo Ohio .It's under a different name now . Little known fact,Holt owns two large Cat bone yards in Texas or did at one time .

More history of the crawler .The high track design is nothing new either .It goes back to Cletrac in about 1920 . The idea is two fold .The sprocket etc is kept high out of the mud and the track action is the same in forward or reverse . On a conventional crawler going foward you are pulling...

I didn't check it out but I imagine the drive motors on that thing are servo motors. They have pretty much taken over on electric drives . A company by the name of Indramate from I think Sweden is one of the leaders in this technoligy and I work with them on nearly a daily bassis . Unlike the...

I wasn't aware that Caterpilar is going to electric drive .It makes good sense but is nothing new .The RJ LeTourno Co .[can't spell ] used it years ago with great success . It's much easier to couple the power to the tracks via a DC motor than by a mechanical connection of some sort . You could...