Your dozer photos

[Willie B]

Spent last winter going through it, cleaning, replacing fluids, hoses, shimming the front idler guides, batteries, wiring. The "big mail box is a shelter to park in. I'll close off at least the back to prevent snow from drifting. Giving some thought to doors on the front.

Willie

 

[g_man]

I like your prefab shed Wille - just like you described. The snow won't collapse that one.

Where is your "Over Sized Load" sign and permit ?

gg

 

[Willie B]

I like your prefab shed Wille - just like you described. The snow won't collapse that one.

Where is your "Over Sized Load" sign and permit ?

gg

I may have bent the rules slightly. No pictures of it on the highway, and you know what they say; "Without pictures, it didn't happen."

Willie

 

[StxRancher]

My 81 450C

 

[boaterri]

It's not a dozer but this is my new toy. A John Deere 450C track loader with backhoe.

Hope it is ok to add it to the thread.

Rick

 

[Willie B]

Is the hoe a John Deere original, or aftermarket? These were not rare, or uncommon. I think they were at their best with clam bucket. A local died this weekend, he'd had one thirty years. A very nice unit. Check the front crossmember. If the bolts attaching it to the track frame failed, the lazy solution was to weld it. This didn't allow the small amount of movement necessary. The crossmember would break, putting tremendous strain on the transmission housing as it cantilevered the front of the machine. Broken transmission cases were the result. Last year I looked at a 450C Dozer, agreed on a price, drove it a bit. I arranged transportation, and a friend went with me to haul it. He was much more knowledgeable than I. We ran it quite a while, the seller was visibly agitated. It began to smoke from under the rear. I searched out the source of smoke; a rubber hose. It ran through the belly, and connected to the engine breather. In this process, I noticed the transmission housing had lots of fresh yellow paint, and welded on patches. I didn't buy it.

Willie

 

[boaterri]

It is a genuine 9300 backhoe attachment as far a I can tell. Not the original one with the machine as one might guess from the formally red paint.

Good call on the cross member check. Thanks,

Rick

 

[moriboy]

Here's a picture of my dad running his D7F. We've had quite a few farm dozers over the years.

He ran D7E's while in Vietnam and always had a love for the 7's.

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[Willie B]

Here's a picture of my dad running his D7F. We've had quite a few farm dozers over the years.

He ran D7E's while in Vietnam and always had a love for the 7's.

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A real beauty. Where I live a dozer that big with winch is rare.

Willie

 

[Metalman 55]

Here's a picture of my dad running his D7F. We've had quite a few farm dozers over the years.

He ran D7E's while in Vietnam and always had a love for the 7's.

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I 2nd the idea of really liking the D7's. Back in the 80's I had the privilege of operating this D7G for several hundred hours & it was a real pleasure to run. Quick & nimble to get around, yet lots of power to get the job done. I must say that it was my favorite dozer to run hands down.

 

[moriboy]

A real beauty. Where I live a dozer that big with winch is rare.

Willie

They are pretty common around here since most of these older 7's were used in logging operations.

 

[Willie B]

In the era it was built in VT loggers depended on US Forest Service Timber Sales. Private land sale contracts usually used federal contract forms. D2, D3, and especially John Deere 350 sized tractors were nearly all there were. Big track tractors weren't allowed on federal land. Earlier, right after WWII both my father, and his brother worked for a very big company that started in the ice business. Their tractors were D7.

By my youth D7s were pretty unusual.

Willie

 

[Crook_Donk]

Slugs out the D353 in my D9H. #4 (missing from picture) is a good sized book end at the moment. Can't get over how big they are. They are adjacent to the fuel tank sitting on a wooden pallet to give some scale....

 

[jwest75801]

You can check out my equipment and some work I've done here at this link I like doing things the old school way. https://m.facebook.com/Wests-Services-1531629740441092/

 

[jwest75801]

 

[Hobbytime]

here is my D-58..makes a good snow mover..

 

[davo727]

 

[davo727]

Had it delivered today , a D6C 10K . 1974 I think.

 

[nicky 68a]

Got this old D8H 68A working in the UK at the moment

 

[nicky 68a]