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Pictures of my dozer

Willie B

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I can't seem to find the thread. After some major work, my son felt it needed paint. He has done most of the work. Dresser TD7G. Identical twin to the International TD7E. This one has wider tracks than it should.

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IMG_4305.JPG IMG_4305.JPG IMG_4306.JPGA few parts missing yet. No decals yet. I figure it'll be filthy by the time all the details arrive.
 
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Is that a aftermarket seat? If so where'd you order it from? Ive got a td8g need a new seat in the worst way. Paint job looks great wish I had the engine covers for mine too
 
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I bought, and refurbished a hot water pressure washer. If I recall it's 220 degree Fahrenheit, 3000 PSI 4 GPM. It did much of the work. Paint where rough, got stripped with a 9" paint stripping disc on a big Milwaukee grinder. Tried the 4" version, way too slow. Lots of parts to take off, I'd guess 40 man hours. Fixed a few issues in the process. Almost three gallons sprayed total. There's a lot of surfaces in one of these.
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Brandon_M said:
Is that a aftermarket seat? If so where'd you order it from? Ive got a td8g need a new seat in the worst way. Paint job looks great wish I had the engine covers for mine too
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I got the seat from Finney. They have NOS, and reproduction stuff. I think mine originally had the optional suspension seat, but by the time I got it the seat had been replaced with an old take out from some other machine. Quite a lot of hardware was missing to use a suspension seat. People leave them out in rain, and direct sun. Or worse, cover them encouraging mice to nest in them.

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That's where I was thinking of ordering 1 from. I believe mine had a suspension seat when new. But like yours all the hardware is gone & replaced with another seat of some sort. I like the way yours looks, believe you just confirmed a sale for Finney.
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I've bought a number of things from Finney. They've been great. In the spring I lost a pin from the C arm. It allowed the C arm to hit track, damaging the tube for the right angle cylinder. After waiting months for a hydraulic rebuilder, I went looking for a new one. Somebody in California had 3 NOS cylinders. $2400. was too much to pay, but I consented. It arrived with the keeper bolt hole off center. I looked the situation over, yes, I could fabricate a new pin to fit the cylinder. It was too much to pay for a cylinder that wasn't right. They checked, two more were also bad. I proposed that I could make it work, but I wanted a reduced price. They got huffy about it, I sent the cylinder back.

Finney said they had a used cylinder in excellent condition. With shipping it came to $800. They charged my credit card, and notified me it had been shipped. Repeated efforts to track it failed. Eventually, they admitted they never shipped it. It took forever, several phone calls to get a refund.

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Catsparky1 said:
I have always liked those dozers . Looks great nice work .
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Here, we are overrun with Deere dozers. US Forest Service timber sales used to specify a dozer had to meet certain specifications. John Deere 350 series exactly fit those specs. A logger could make a living logging private land, or get rich logging federal.

My Dresser was bought new by a one man excavating company doing mostly home sites. 3400 hours.
 
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MO Dept of Conservation/Forestry is the same here. See tons of Deere machines, used to be Allis prior to the FA merger, seems the spec sheets state everything but the Deere numbers.
 
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I believe USFS has had few timber sales in twenty years. Any they have had are for wildlife habitat. The fifty years preceding that specifications were written to exclude all but one logger. He made millions on US Forest Service timber sales.

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It's near finished. A seat belt this morning, a used dipstick tube, a latch. I think I got the tracks too tight.

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I usually put a 2x4 from the front roller to the first front idler on top and look for about 2 inches of sag from the bottom of the wood to top of the track....
 
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