Now we are having fun! Pushin 2.5ft of snow with my 57 JD 420c. Gets cold tho, makes ya dream of an enclosed cab!

Love these old trackers. Great video

WOW! That's a very deep snow on the ground! That's a a lot of plowing snow in your property. Stay safe and warm!

Love them small older JD dozers.

Push down on the blade to break it loose from the ground when it's sat and froze to ground. I remember when those were new models. Many hrs in the seat , we used them for everything. Small dozers and sloppy old two wheel drive backhoes were pretty much what we had to do residential sitework with.

It beats the living s***out of the machine.

You can plow snow with a dozer if you're a flatlander. Don't try it up in the hills or the mountains. It won't end well guaranteed.

Park it on old tires or something to keep it off the ground so the tracks don’t freeze in. Busting loose is hard on the final drives. Enjoyed the video!

Steering clutches need adjustments!

I would love a little cat like that for our farm.

Bendix's id bad

hey Dan mount a hydraulic belt driven pump on the Oliver and a plow frame a couple hydro cylinders and your cletrac will be your back woods red neck snow plow ha ha

That’s a good ol’ girl

Put some Logs or skids under the tracks before parling !

No electronic it is why it start easily, You can change those dry clucht for wet one.

I am still looking for deep snow.

Looks like fun for Dan when he is older. Thanks.

What I usually do to keep from damaging or possibly busting a gear to push the blade down and raise up my tracks before moving If it’s frozen that may help from the possibility of breaking something just my two cents worth

I would like to know why heating the starter does some good? Seeing where you had the torch, you were not heating the solenoid, you were heating the starter end cover area. Are you heating the starter shaft bushing? Are the brushes stuck and heat moves them around, like when you rap on a starter with a hammer? Or is there ice inside it? Also, have you done an ampere draw on that starter? It may have a partial short soaking up lots of battery or it may have a partial open (brushes) not allowing full power to the starter. If you don't have a big ammeter, like on a VAT tester, you can use a VOM to measure the voltage the drop between the starter and the battery. Begin with a check across the battery itself, while cranking. Be sure to test directly on the actual lead terminal extending out of the battery to eliminate the cable connection. Then check for a voltage drop (while cranking) from battery to ground AT THE STARTER. Then again to starter input. That starter looks like a Delco Remy "style" with an external connection from the solenoid to the starter, that flat copper conductor that scoots across the top of the starter barrel to where it goes inside the starter is your pick up point. Those two readings will give you the overall drop in power. It should be less then 0.4 volts. If not isolate the drop at each connection. Like battery posts to wire connectors on both sides. Then from solenoid battery "IN" to ground, and solenoid "OUT" to ground. That'll tell you if it's inside the solenoid. After making certain all the connections are clean and tight from both sides of the battery to the solenoid in and out and the ground side are all less than 0.4 volts drop, if it still won't crank it over quick enough, run that starter to a starter shop. If warming the engine made it roll over easier, in my humble opinion, unless you have 30W oil in it, the starter, battery, wiring or connection are at fault. Starters are electrical but once you get it running, you kind of forget about it unless you have to use lights. Your Diesel is "electric free" once it's running it doesn't need any, but it has to be there in the beginning. A fully charged battery with clean and tight connections and a good starter, and the right engine oil weight, is the formula. Sometimes if someone replaced a wire with a smaller gauge will mess it up. The system is that finely tuned. My experience is heavy oil and a weak battery is the cause most of the time, but heating the starter is an indicator that something else is going on. OK (eh) ben/ michigan

835 versatile with 12 ft blade would made your life easier

think you're bad owner living this nice machine outside.

Time to pull the starter and put new armature bushings in. Drawing too much power.

TIRE CHAINS

Looks like the tracks need a little tensioning....LOL. Good stuff.

Good old dinosaur f#rts to get a cold engine to start stay safe

Right on!! Started up nicely!!!!!

First, on-dick!!!

Hi Dan. I just love those old half-track. They really improved the capabilities of those old irons that where rear wheel drive without differential lock. I also love that genuine winter Canadian fun! 😄 Thanks for the great video.

A set of good winter tires would do a magic plus you would've stayed at the Christmas party.

many moons ago I worked for a company putting in house sights, driveways and septic systems with a loader just like that, only it had a clam front bucket. I moved a lot of dirt with it

How much one of them cost

What year is the tractor?

How do the half tracks maneuver? Does the steering wheel do all the work or do you have to brake steer alot? Does it turn worse with them on vs off? Thanks I am contemplating a set for a tractor with weak brakes.

Towed, vehicles need to be pulled out from the lower part of the frame, not the upper part, where you're pulling up, not down ✌️❤️🇨🇦

Man I see them old Massey Ferguson tractors in the background and would love to see a video on them even if it is just you telling about what they are and the spec's on them

Great video just the Machine and you no music that great really like the old Tractor video

Dan really no pocket knife!👍🏽😊❤️🇺🇸

Good job Dan, thanks for sharing my friend! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙋🏼✌🏻✌🏻🇺🇸💯💯💯

Always like to see your half track doing odd jobs

Yikes! Smoking 🚬 a butt, & holding a gas can! #livinontheedge 😂

That really is a cool tractor. Always found the halftrack packs interesting

Thanks for saving US, i did get a branch in my face, but that is OK!

Awesome Dan!!!! Keep the vids coming!!!!!

someone gonna be bizzy in spring....lol...so did ya finish the job or just make a mess......

Haha great video. Im convinced to get one now.

Please don't attach your recovery rope to your trailer hitch ball. That's extremely dangerous. People have been killed doing that.

A recovery point on a trailer hitch ball? Ratchet straps? No one packed the correct equipment? Soft Shackles, Snatch Blocks, Recovery Mats, Metal Shackles and Kinetic Recovery Rope.

Tell me Canada withooot telling me Canada. 😂😂 Love the content northern neighbor

Your both idiots, hook the strap under plow to plow frame or truck frame to pull it upwards not up high like ya had it were it yanks down on plow and front end. Would have came out alot easier matei!!!

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