I was under the impression that most dozers of recent vintage (back into the '80s certainly) had hydro transmissions which is what allows for the constant back and forth they do all day.
Certainly the D7 that I ran back in 1997 would go from VERY slow to relatively quick with just additional pressure on the go lever. -Curt Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:04:13 +0930 From: Hendrik & Fay <heni...@ozemail.com.au> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] We all live in a yellow G machine Message-ID: <4e4e4a35.8010...@ozemail.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Well a good auto is a good thing, reminds me of a story I heard many years ago, a road train was stuck on a wheat farm in WA and they got a D9 in to pull it out, after breaking the first chain they got a bigger chain, D9 bogged down. Got in a Allis Chalmers N9 harvester with hydrostatic transmission, N9 ripped the road train out of bog. Moral of story? HP applied gradually is better than HP applied suddenly. Hendrik who cannot testify to the authentic of that story _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
