knucklebuster with a Detroit engine?

[skyking1]

I spotted one for sale but no identification in the ad. I wonder what make it is?

 

[repowerguy]

Just looking at the cutting edge, I would consider it junk, the moldboard is toasted by someone too cheap or stupid to put on a cutting edge.

 

[Vetech63]

Looks like an old Austin Western

 

[Terry140]

A Wabco maybe

 

[Mother Deuce]

Looks like an old Austin Western

Weren't the Austins all hydraulic very early on?

 

[Mother Deuce]

Just looking at the cutting edge, I would consider it junk, the moldboard is toasted by someone too cheap or stupid to put on a cutting edge.

I have heard of several instances and this looks like one where the owner or the operator "cut" the road crown into the blade/edge with a gas axe.

 

[skyking1]

I think it has been plowing snow for a very long time. Sale is pending on it, but the ask is 3000 OBO

 

[56wrench]

the moldboard could be the easiest and cheapest thing to fix

 

[skyking1]

No kidding! Who knows how the rest of it is. I got nostalgic reading all the threads of people with home iron. I have a forklift that followed me home, but nothing else. A grader is really my only dream. We are 600' down a gravel road that is kept alive by neighbors dragging a float behind a kubota. We don't get much snow, but plowing it would be nice when we get a wet sloppy dump.
I would not need or use an excavator or backhoe on our small property, and I have a couple of years of use of the company iron to do whatever I might think of.
This thing ticks off a couple of nostalgia check boxes.
Knucklebuster to remind me of Cat 112 days ( of course I would dream of one of THOSE little machines! )
Detroit earplug plus headset musics

 

[DB2]

For occasional use I’m sure there’s enough frog (moldboard) left to bolt a new set of blades too. Looks like a stout old unit.

 

[skyking1]

It's all probably folly as the first buyer is going to take it. but looking at it I agree I think it would hold enough edge for what I need.

 

[Mother Deuce]

It's all probably folly as the first buyer is going to take it. but looking at it I agree I think it would hold enough edge for what I need.

I fight the lusting after battle about monthly in the blade dept. This is this months object of affection. https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=411&acctid=8531

 

[skyking1]

Ooooo, That's really new!

 

[mitch504]

Mother, that was mean to show me that, so close to me!

 

[skyking1]

Hahaha!
Bastiges!

 

[Mother Deuce]

Mother, that was mean to show me that, so close to me!

It is a nice one! Look good with the Bucyrus!

 

[skyking1]

Yep now he's getting mean.

 

[mitch504]

The B-Es belonged to my brother in law, not me. He died last week, and my sister called in the scrappers. There's only one of them left now, they have been using it to load out everything else, hopefully it won't feel the torch, but two good runners did.

 

[skyking1]

B- E whats?

 

[Mother Deuce]

The B-Es belonged to my brother in law, not me. He died last week, and my sister called in the scrappers. There's only one of them left now, they have been using it to load out everything else, hopefully it won't feel the torch, but two good runners did.

Too bad... very sorry for your loss.