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The "Right" Track Solution

Dick Holcombe's IHC T-6 Receives Yet Another Interesting Operation

By Dick Holcombe

Dick heated the track bushings.

And then rotated them, using a pulley and cable pulled by his garden tractor.

Probably one of the greatest perils in owning vintage machinery lies in the eccentricities of former owners. In some cases you can track down the original owner to ascertain the machine's condition. But of the many old machines I have owned, I have never had one unit I could connect to the original owner.

That was the case with the "Nimble T-6" (see GEM, August 2003), my 1952 International Harvester bulldozer. In that first article, I wrote about modifying the T-6's controls to make it easier for me to operate. That modification worked fine, but the unit had problems with the tracks...

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