If they're tuned right you don't need "strength"
I really don't know much about the JDs, but I've always had a "spot" for the little B.O. Lindeman crawlers, which were born right up in this part of the country.
When I maybe 12 My Gramps got one and I could operate it, with hand clutch and easy to operate controls. He had a place which the driveway was very bad for snow drifts, so he devised a temporary / portable "snow fence," sections of rough board fencing on skids, with triangular supports which could be easily assembled. So in the fall, I'd drive, and Dad and Gramps would rassle the snow fence off the skids as I dragged them along, and the reverse in the spring.
Then after the Navy, a friend of mine acquired one, rebuilt the tracks, and made a small dozer for it. They were a ton of fun.
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Here are three "Lindeman's", the last one is not,...My father in law told me the story about how Lindeman's came to be,...very interesting.
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