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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[dodge man]

I did some topographic surveying in front Caterpillar plant when they first started making Challengers. I’m not even sure where it was, I was working for our Rockford Illinois office, it was maybe east of Rockford. That was the first I’d ever seen a tracked ag tractor. My memory was it was a smaller plant but they had a bunch of them outside, maybe this was late 80’s early 90’s.

 

[Dryland Farmer]

I have done some digging with a Deere four track. We had to move the dirt quite a ways so we pulled 2 units per machine. Because we only filled 1 at a time it worked. Toughest part was when they were both loaded pulling them up and out of a retention basin. Mine understanding is the Case has a better cab, more operator comfort.

 

[Engineer42]

We were using the Case Quads with scrapers in 2000. Had a serious undercarriage failure rate with the 440 model. It showed up new about a week before 9/11 at the new Catholic school on Rt 40. Front idlers would melt the shafts from bearing failures.

I think they improved it when they went to the 450. I believe we started with 2 used 9310's for proof of concept. A contractor in Southern PA was using Cases but with flotation singles. Trouble was that made the tractor wider than the scraper.