driving on road?

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.

I had a friend that unloaded a small dozer (I think that it was a 450 JD) on the side of a state maintained alsphalt road a few years back.

He used 2 x 12 boards and tried to keep them under the tracks, one of the boards on the road side slipped out and he lightly scarred the road surface for about 10 feet on the right hand side of the road before he realized it.

A guy from the state roads dept saw the one track mark on the road and reported it.

Long story short, the state came out the next week and tore up the whole lane 12 feet wide by 30 feet long down to the dirt and repaved it. They claimed that the weight of the dozer caused damage to the full thickness of alsphalt in the whole area.

My friend was a little lucky and had his business insured, he said that his insurance guy flipped out and his insurance went up a lot due to this mistake.

He would never tell anyone what the state charged for the so called damage repairs.

My other option was to go through the fields, but then I have to get permission from a bunch of people. Also, trying to get a price on hauling, so we will see. Pretty much needs a semi at that weight.

On a side note, I've always heard that used semi tires are better for crawling across pavement than plywood or 2x4s (they have more "give").