Big Case tractors

[dodge man]

Saw this today on a construction site. Big tracked Case IH tractors pulling scraper pans. It used to be the tracked Challenger tractors doing this but lately it’s been tractors more like these . The building an area for staging and storage for a new power line project. I assume storm water detention is what the big hole is for. I believe there were 5 of these rigs running around.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I've seen that before, it's cool to see those large ag machines working in construction. Given their size and weight, they must do great pulling those scrapers.

 

[dodge man]

If you look in the first picture there is a wet area, I noticed them spinning a little in this area. It’s been very dry around here, I’m not sure what the plan was if we had a wet fall.

 

[oldnslo]

Case IH Quad tracs are real common in some areas and soil types. I think they make a scraper special model designed for pulling those.

 

[Hay Dude]

Saw this today on a construction site. Big tracked Case IH tractors pulling scraper pans. It used to be the tracked Challenger tractors doing this but lately it’s been tractors more like these . The building an area for staging and storage for a new power line project. I assume storm water detention is what the big hole is for. I believe there were 5 of these rigs running around.
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That’s because the Challenger line was discontinued about 4 years ago.
What AGCO has done is replaced them with Fendts.

 

[oldnslo]

Did AGCO ever make scraper models of twin tracks or was that discontinued when AGCO purchased challenger line from CAT?

 

[Hay Dude]

Yes. Here’s one with a CAT C-18 motor. It was just the opposite. When AGCO purchased Challenger from CAT, they only had the single track models. AGCO then created a dual track articulating model.

Case-IH has a big hold on my area, so about1/2 the pull-pans are pulled by Case-IH quad tracks. I also see Deere pulling lots of them.
Saw a few Challengers, but they had a bigger presence in other areas.

CAT really was rolling when they had AG tractors and even had trucks going back about 15+ years ago. Then they jumped out because they couldn’t make their engines meet the reliability-killing over-burdensome EPA regs.

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