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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Four Seasons Firewood" data-source="post: 70133" data-attributes="member: 9966"><p>Well I was misinformed by my employee. He said it worked in slow. When I got home and looked at it the machine was stuck in the field and the right track would not move. I had just bought the machine and new it had a noise in the right travel motor. Turns out that it made it about 100 feet off the trailer and the travel motor did a grenade. When I pulled the cover off of the gear reduction all of the gears had missing and broken teeth. Not a problem though because the price was so good and the rest of the machine is in great shape. I found a bolt that held one of the gears on its post had broken and the bolt head and retaining washer started the teeth breaking and it just went from there. A complete travel motor is $6,000.00. Repair gears are $10,000.00. That seems stupid. Instead of being robbed by the dealer I am planning to send the gears to a reverse engineering shop and have them make new ones. They are just simple spur gears anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>