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    sunday drive in Iowa

    The grey silverado in mine. The cat equipment a find on a hilltop in eastern Iowa
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    Axe Men beyond belief

    I cant imagine what the producer of this show is thinking. The latest shows are filled with staged idiotic things such as dropping a tree on a employees car using old unsafe cables just plain stuff that belongs on the Jack Ass show. As long as I am venting the disrepect of fellow employees and...
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    Caterpillar pedal tractor

    Hi to all Back around 1950 Cat had a toy pedal tractor it also came with a small gasoline engine and a version that was battery powered I am interested in finding out more about these toys . They were featured in toy farmer magazine several yrs ago These were a actual track machine and sold...
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    Agco Allis once Allis Chalmers

    After fighting there way along the fimilar orange color tractors will no longer be built as of 2010 the parent company will eliminate them and put there resources into names like massey fergusen and challenger. A sad ending for thr giant company of Allis Chalmers sad . The giant that made heavy...
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    New holland dozers

    just looked at New Hollands web site . They show 2 biggers dozers. 241 hp and 350 hp. I was just wondering are they a branded product or made by the fiat group in 1 of there factories thanks the BIG D
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    parts availability

    Last week I went with my brother to a neighboring town we walked into a Bobcat dealorship and easily purchased parts for his old Bobcat. I later thought to my self people like us in the midwest USA take parts availability for granted. I would like to Hear some stories of what it takes to get...
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    machine population numbers

    Hello to all BIG D here coming from mostly a service backround I am curious as to how machine population numbers are arrived at. for instance the komatsu D575 super dozer how mainy where manufactured to Date I heard around 90 but there seems like individuals here that have all the total numbers...
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    setting some folks straight

    Caterpillar is a brand name its belongs to CAT it isnt a russian caterpillar as I have seen stated they are track type tractors with there own brand name such as Dressta etc COCA COLA has the same problem . Another brand name miss used is BOBCAT they are skid steers I could go on but its not...
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    993k

    My son in law said he saw a new 993k cat going north on the interstate in Madison Wisconsin He said it was totally Impressive Makes me wonder where it was going . the bigger the better thanks the BIG D
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    fact or myth on pipeline

    I have heard when building the alaska pipeline if a machine such as a dozer broke through the permafrost they would run another machine over it and bury it with gravel can any one tell me is this fact or fiction and they were never recovered? thank BIG D
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