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Question about why everyone straps excavators by the bucket and not the tracks
Hauling a 15 ton mini excavator from Wichita to Emporia last month, I watched a guy load up at the yard and he ran his chains over the bucket, cross tied, done in ten minutes. My dad hauled equipment on a 1972 Ford LN for 20 years and he always went through the tracks with four points. I asked the guy why and he said everybody does it this way now. Cost me $340 in boomer chains and binders to do it the way I was taught, versus maybe $120 worth on the bucket method. My question is whether the tracks really need all four points or if I have been overdoing it this entire time. That 15 ton machine walked about half an inch on the deck over 60 miles the one time I tried the quick way, and I have not slept right since. Anybody here haul minis on the regular and can settle this? What are the inspectors actually looking at these days.
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the_anthony6d ago
My uncle hauled a old 580 Case back in the 90s and swore the same thing your dad did, four corners through the tracks or it dont move. Then one day he watched a kid with a brand new setup run one strap over the bucket and it sat fine all the way to Salina. Thing was that kid had a set of those rubber track pads and a deck with a lip welded on the back, so the machine couldnt slide even if it wanted to. My uncle still ran four points after that, mainly cause he didnt trust new stuff, but I never forgot that the deck itself did half the work.
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