John White
Well-Known Member
Any one have any information on a Waldon WD 80 dozer? Are they any good.? Any idea what the weight and h.p is? Who were they made by and parts availability?
Relatively recent machine.up to 1999?
Designed by Ricky Heflin, Jess Davis, employees of Waldon.
This is a small (10,000#) tracked dozer designed to fit a market niche just below the Deere 450 and the Cat D3. It also found a good market in the Forestry industry. It featured a Cummins or Deere engine of around 75 hp, Rexroth dual hydrostat drives, single-lever track control (a year ahead of Cat!), and Berco tracks.
There were some problems with the planetary gearboxes at about 500 hours, the track frame-to main frame bolt joint tended to loosen (later units were welded). other than that they were good solid units . You might turn the relief settings on the hydrostat pumps down a little to protect the gearboxes.
Seem to be a fair few around, parts ?
Selling for about $20k plus in the us of a