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Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: njc110381 on December 31, 2015, 03:24:16 pm: I must come and see your mog at some point Turnip. You're only just down the road from me, and it looks really interesting!
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: Turnip on December 29, 2015, 11:28:47 pm: Put it this way....... I wouldnt tow a mower down this slope with the Drott! Photos of slopes never look much, but believe me - this is steep - even in the Mog!
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: Turnip on December 29, 2015, 06:51:13 pm: Its a bit of a tool! The surprising...... and quite frightening thing is - it doesnt grip very well! This is a smooth track loader with no grousers or cleats on the tracks, the Mog 404 will run rings around it on steep ground. I drove it up a steep slope recently and all was well until it broke traction, then it went backwards downhill like a 7 ton sledge! Only dropping that 4 in 1 bucket stopped it - I think the very low ground pressure means it skates easily! Interesting though, I would have thought it would go places the Mog wouldnt!

Mog 1 - Drott nil!
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: Rabbit Recovery on December 28, 2015, 09:37:45 pm: Yes I could seriously do with something like that to do a load of work at my place! That is an absolute beaut! :)
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: casto on December 28, 2015, 06:40:22 pm: I'd love to have see it driving down the road!!
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: Turnip on December 27, 2015, 11:26:41 pm: Thanks Rabbit.......... was going for scrap and at 6 1/2 tons when scrap was high! Convinced the old boy if I could get it going Id buy it! Then the problem was shifting it? I got it going, he said he could deliver......... He phoned me 7.30am one Sunday waiting at the gate - he had only driven it there on the road!! OMG!
Fitted a back actor on it and very useful too!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJPeYY0u0Qo
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: Rabbit Recovery on December 27, 2015, 10:54:24 pm: That's a lovely looking Drott! Could do with one of those here to do some tidying up. :)
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: casto on December 25, 2015, 09:02:45 pm: Hmm I know where there is one doing nothing on a 416 ;-)
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: Villager on December 24, 2015, 10:22:59 pm: You chaps need a good winch ;)
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: casto on December 24, 2015, 09:16:44 am: Lol that's a right little beast! I've only ever managed to pull one stump out with a mog otherwise I just get a stump grinder in :-)
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: Turnip on December 23, 2015, 10:56:09 pm: Again!
Title: Re: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: Turnip on December 23, 2015, 10:54:10 pm: Ive been doing a bit of that with the 404....... it wouldnt pull the stump though! Only 2ft dia and I left 3ft out of the ground to pull........... ended up being a Drott job and still had to dig 2 ft deep all around with the back actor........ I know its not a Mog - but it is old and interesting!
Title: bit of timber splitting with my 406
Post by: casto on December 23, 2015, 09:36:11 pm: As a little Xmas present to you all, I thought you may like a couple of pics of a job before Xmas :-)