Wait until it gets real hot out, then start right down that road, don't forget to keep turning back and forth ! Well, lets say that would be a very costly mistake, and that $100, is chump change for that move. I can't tell you how many times I've been faced with that same problem, when delivering track type tractors, excavators and other earthmoving equipment, no place to unload or park, but they sure have no problem sending you there, then they let you figure it out, tires, planks, plywood, earthen berms, what have you, just to get the machine to where it needs to be. Excavators might discolor the wearing surface a bit, no indent, probably fade out later, but you have to turn very slowly with them, even then not recommended, the track shoes are not like a dozer, however a new dozer with nice new tall grouser bar, just like everyone else said, it's going to leave a trail of marks. I remember one small drivway job, no place to unload, had to park 1/4-1/2 mile away, and drive the dozer along the road embankment to get to the job site, no idea whose property I was on, but the road was definitely foul territory, even with a little grading tractor, it's a lot more fun when trying to get a D8 offloaded on a 2 lane road with no staging area to unload. People think running lowboy is a fun job, it can be, also fun when the boys are on your behind when you are trying to get that big piece of iron monkey off your back. It's ok to run on the road, when say the town and or state can't bust through the snow, my father, at their request, ran our D7 for 3-4 miles to clear the state road open, in the late 60's after a blizzard, they sure were not concerned about grouser marks than, drifting snow filled a rock cut that was 30 feet high, one heck of a snowstorm.
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