Have R H Crawford ( Frithville) sold any Scaip crawlers

[Pilatus]

 

[snarling bee]

Would you buy one? I guess they will tickle someones fancy.

Edit...and they will have a resale value of 3/5 of FA.

Edit...What annoys me is the info on the website has been translated from the manufacturers language, by a 6th form language student. Why don't Crawfords spend a couple of hours making it sound right.

 

[yellowbelly]

I thought Scaip was a spelling mistake and you'd meant to put "Scrap"

There's always a big pile of old tracks, rollers and associated running gear in their yard.

Mind you, last time I was down the six mile straight, it looked like they'd had a bit of a clearout and weighed a lot of it in.

Over the years, Crawfords must have sold more crawlers than anybody else in the country.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Video of the 350 ploughing looked painfull .
Tracks are narrow and a short frame ,spent more time scrattin than moving .
Plough was to big and couldn't keep it in a straight line .
They might be ok on bone dry ground but it was struggling in the wet

 

[David.]

Sideways diversion, but did many people actually buy and use the Morooka crawlers that came in with a bit of fanfare at the Royal Show back in the 80s?
They were probably the first on rubber tracks.

 

[Pilatus]

Would you buy one? I guess they will tickle someones fancy.

Edit...and they will have a resale value of 3/5 of FA.

Edit...What annoys me is the info on the website has been translated from the manufacturers language, by a 6th form language student. Why don't Crawfords spend a couple of hours making it sound right.

I quite agree.Perhaps Crawfords are no longer agents and haven’t updated their website.
Surely the only job where a steel track , tracklayer comes in to its own in farming these days is for pulling a mole drainer.
Perhaps some of you have got an “appreciating in value CATERPILLAR D6/7/8” for doing that job.

 

[Half Pipe]

Video of the 350 ploughing looked painfull .
Tracks are narrow and a short frame ,spent more time scrattin than moving .
Plough was to big and couldn't keep it in a straight line .
They might be ok on bone dry ground but it was struggling in the wet

Twin tracks difficult to keep going straight as you need to stop the track with most grip to steer.
I spent few hours keeping a track marshal pulling a subsoiler straight with a 7ton excavator.
It was a patch of land that had gotten badly sealed on surface, dry below.
It was surprising how little pulling with excavator it took to keep it straight.

 

[DrWazzock]

I once bought a Track Marshall 110 as I liked the sound of the Perkins 6 cylinder. Despite weighing 10 tonnes it pulled a semi mounted plough surprisingly badly on dry clay. Four furrows and she was scratting. Low ground pressure isn’t really compatible with traction. On wetter clay with grousers bolted to the tracks it could pull anything. I remember pulling a mole plough in such conditions. Hit a big stone and left the leg behind without even realising till I turned at the end.
I didn’t like the hydraulically operated steering. It couldn’t really be feathered so it was all or nothing. A big lurch left or right. Whereas the hand operated brake levers on earlier models allowed you to apply just a slight correction. Why they ever moved to hydraulic steering brakes control I’ll never know.
My Renault Temis 630, the best tractor we’ve ever owned, can do as much as an equivalent HP crawler and a lot more besides.
Always fancied a Marooka though. But not sure what I’d do with it?

 

[DrWazzock]

Could be wrong but I’ll bet you could be royally forked over on parts for some of these rarer imports.

 

[Two Tone]

A friend had a Marooka. He bought it because it was a lot cheaper that a rubber tracked Challenger.
It had hydrostatic drive to each track operated by 2 levers and was a bugger to keep in a straight line.

I couldn’t have lived with it. It would have driven me nuts.