Recent content by Farmall

Cat/ASV's advantage is also its disadvantage. Great ride but lots of little expensive bits spinning under great tension in mud and rocks. The full report would include undercarriage rebuild costs over 5000 hours. The test is biased because any good operator would change the conditions rather...

Fishfiles indicates the current shop shortcut, though only one finger width. I think the factory spec is too tight for most operation. I ran early track sets tight as per spec and they wore out fast, no matter how easy I was on them. I leave tracks looser now, but not sloppy, and track life has...

Takeuchi: great engine, strong chassis, lousy inaccurate control system, lousy visibility. Slow loading cycles. If you work in the open, on the flat, with no people around you and operational accuracy or speed isn't important, the Tak is fine. Put you around people, in tight spaces, next to a...

I'm venting here, but some venting has substance. The gauge maybe only an "indicator", but if it is inaccurate to any large degree, it is not longer an indicator, it's a distraction. My 200 low fuel light comes on when there is between 6 and 9 gallons left in the tank. The gauge is not much more...