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    Ran a scraper today!

    ran a scraper today i found out very quickly that a 61 yr. old and a cat 627-b don't go together! after 11 hrs. on it i had to tell the boss [as bad as i hated to admitt it] that he probably needed a younger guy to run the old girl! i will say that that old machine would haul dirt, sure didn't...
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    3 things to know to operate

    dang it boys! i'm an old fart now but i surely remember being a laborer on a road job here in iowa when i was 16 and the foreman telling me to grab A SPADE AND clean the tracks on the 9 pushcat and being proud to do it! even tho my dad was the operator and was setting in the...
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    what do you mainly operate

    well boy's [oops] "men" last week i ran an old 7 dozer for a friend of mine, next week i start running the old john deere for the county road dept. such is the life of a "old" fart that is retired but still enjoys running any thing that moves dirt! i really like to run a cat and scraper but...
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    cat scraper tractor-sheeps foot roller

    years ago ,1960 to be exact, i ran a dw-10 pulling a quad mounted roller ,it was a rough old machine to run but i was 17 and running cat equipment and it couldn''t get any better than that! :usa
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    Allis Chalmers HD6 worth buying?

    when i was a kid 17 yrs old i ran a little hd-11 shoving out power line poles on a road job, and i worked for a company that had all ac equipment, hd16's all the way up to hd 21's. i prefer cat equipment but those old ac tractors did a pretty good job of hauling dirt on i-80 in 1963.:cool2
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    Military D9 and D10

    d-9 and d-10 all i can say is, GOD BLESS THE USA, AND ALL OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN HARMS WAY TRYING THEIR BEST TO PROTECT THESE PEOPLE FROM THEMSELVES! MAYBE WE NEED A COUPLE OF THOSE DOZERS TO FLANK OUR CONVOYS TO CLEAR THE ROADSIDE BOMBS THAT HAVE KILLED SO MANY OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE !:usa
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    newbie from iowa

    howdy, i'm 65, retired but still work in the summer for our county road dept. i run a jd 4440 with a side mount mower and mow the shoulders on the secondary roads.[ good job for an "old fart"!] i worked on road construction from 1957-1964 mostly on i-80 , my dad and grandfather worked on...
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    Dozers and operator cabs

    howdy alan627b, i ran one of the "old" 627's for negus for one day about 4 yrs. ago. i think i know what you are talking about, that was one hot old machine,i had just retired from a factory job and thot i would try constuction again but after 11 hrs. i had to tell the foreman that a younger guy...
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