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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iowa Dave" data-source="post: 23947" data-attributes="member: 2195"><p>You've already been warned about the early drive motors-heed that advice. I would really question buying a tracked loader for cleaning barns-- 1)you will spend TONS of time trying to wash out all the crap (literally) from up in behind the undercarriage 2) MAYBE--I still wouldn't for your application-- if you are keeping your SSL, but if you are trading/selling your wheeled machine, you will really regret having a tracked loader as your only machine 3) You better have a heated parking spot in the winter. Otherwise a tracked machine will be frozen and immobile unless you spend LOTS and LOTS of time cleaning it any time you get in mud/manure. 4) Spinning around loading spreaders will tear up the tracks PRONTO. You must operate a CTL different than a SSL--more ""round" turns, and stay off concrete, or $4-5 K for new tracks. It took a while to get the tracked machines fairly dependable, and an 864 isn't in that camp. If its only soupy for while in the spring, why not rent a CTL for a month each spring??</p></blockquote><p></p>