Your dozer photos

[pafarmer]

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My new to me D3

Great machines...love these D3 CAT's....looks like a nice one...Congrats and good luck..

 

[Willie B]

I hate rusty blades. Go shine it up. A great sized machine, squeezes into tight spaces.

Willie

 

[Neily]

our old allis

 

[chevy43]

1955 International TD-18 181 series with B&E blade working hard building road. Weight about 32,000 lbs. 691 cubic inch 6 cyl.

 

[fast_st]

1966 John Deere 350 short track, gas engine, 24T Carco winch and the heart of a D8. Its a little bit of an odd duck with the 4 roller bottom instead of 5 and snow tracks. Spent an afternoon cutting a pair of driveways into a field and moving 80 feet of rock wall aside. Came out looking great.

seems to want to be inverted...




Finished for the day !

 

[farmerlund]

Here is my favorite machine to operate, for some reason its relaxing to me.:tong I have had this one for 8 or so years. D8H. It has been a good machine.

 

[ETMF 58 White]

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[nicky 68a]

That's a nice 46A Farmer.
Here's some nice 68A 's I still run

 

[ilcorngrower]

Our two 750C both series 2 and our 650H

 

[g_man]

My favorite view in the VT woods



gg

 

[mlprus88]

My '84 Case 850C. Previous owner painted it the wrong color. Claimed he wanted to make it look better, and CAT yellow was less expensive than Case yellow. I think I would've preferred the worn out Case paint...... Pretty decent machine though.

 

[Price]

Trying hard to post pics but they are posting rotated to the left. I go to computer, select picture, upload, post. What am I missing?

 

[Price]

Ok. I think my pic was too big. It was taken with my Iphone and I guess I need to make sure to upload pics to computer as small.

Sorry for repost.

 

[mlprus88]

Lol

 

[Willie B]

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Ok. I think my pic was too big. It was taken with my Iphone and I guess I need to make sure to upload pics to computer as small.

Sorry for repost.

Very nice, do you have a rake? I showed up the second trip to buy one cash in hand. A much closer inspection discovered issues I opted out of. I ended up with a Dresser TD7G. Paint one to look like the other, even a mechanic won't quickly figure it out. Where I live the Deere is much more common.

Willie

 

[Price]

Very nice, do you have a rake? I showed up the second trip to buy one cash in hand. A much closer inspection discovered issues I opted out of. I ended up with a Dresser TD7G. Paint one to look like the other, even a mechanic won't quickly figure it out. Where I live the Deere is much more common.

Willie

Thanks. I do have a rake. There were some minor issues to fix. I took the panel out and put in manual gauges, replaced many track shoe bolts, water pump and hoses and other small things.

I need to rework the bushings on the blade connections and trunion ball at some point. New track shoes needed. All in time.

So how are you liking the Dresser?

 

[Willie B]

It's a sweet machine. Like a dog, they all are if they have been treated well. Mine is a long way from new. It had some early issues. The undercarriage on the 3400 hour machine had been replaced. New shoes were 16" instead of 15 stock. This infringed 1/2" each side on the minimal clearance between track shoe , and swing cylinders. I began with wishbone pivots. These are non lubricated, non bushed pivots. There was a bit of slop in them. I hoped boring would tighten them enough to alleviate the shoe scrub. Dressers have a walking undercarriage in that the front crossmember pivots in the middle. Travel is limited to two inches. At one point in the first month I was playing with it, a friend drove in, I shut it off. Standing on the front of the track I noticed too much movement in the front idler. Dressers have 8 Rub bars to locate the front idler. The replaced undercarriage should have included these. It proved a big job 'cause I had never done one before. Otherwise it has been lots of fluid/filters, some new hoses (one cost $450.00), new batteries, and all new cables new seat, bunches of rubber parts etc.

Could your shoes be freshened up with new grousers? The easiest stick welding process there is.

Willie

 

[Price]

My pads are getting thin and starting to bend. So I figure I need to invest in new pads rather than welding on new grousers. Need some work first to be able to fund that fix!!

 

[tenpointr1]

 

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