How Prayer Repaired a Busted Bulldozer | Guideposts

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The old Case 310 Dozer fired right up even after being idle for a few months. I had been on bed rest after gall bladder surgery, unable to do my farm chores, and was tired of being cooped up in the house. Even though I was still recovering, it was time to get a few things done. First thing—test the hydraulic functions on the dozer, make sure it was still in working order.

 

I backed the machine out of the tractor shed and into the dirt road. So far so good. I moved the crawler forward. All of the sudden, the track on the left side began to slide off of the rollers. Uh oh.

 

That wasn’t good. If the track slipped any more, it would be an expensive problem to fix. I tried backing up and pulling forward again to get the rollers to align. That made it worse. The dozer was smack dab in the middle of the road, but I couldn’t risk moving it any further.

 

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