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    D6R v/s 750J

    I am in the market for a dozer for work on our own land and have found good deals on the 2 mentioned machines. Both have 3,000 and some odd hours and both are under 50k. Now my instinct tells me to go with the cat but people tell me that the deere will stick to and work on steep ground much...
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    what dozer to buy?

    Looking to buy a dozer for farm use. We have a couple hundred acres in eastern ky. the dozer will be used along with our deere 490E excavator to reclaim our land, brushing, road building, building large flats/small fields/ponds and maybe a little limbering. the Terran is extremely steep...
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    going off drop offs

    How does one go over a drop off that is high enough that the back of your tracks come off the ledge before the front of then touch the ground? It seems like if you did that then your counter weight would set down on the ledge and you would be in a pickle. Ive heard of folks taking cat 312's off...
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    video of cat 315 climbing steel scafaling

    Check this guy out! I wish i had his confadince. YouTube - Cat 319D LN climbing onto rail car oops, its a 319
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    what size dozer to buy

    Looking at buying a dozer for personal use along with my deere 490E. Will be mostly clearing mountain side with rock and popular trees up to 20 inches, building roads making flats on the mountain cutting ditches out of the hollow and so forth. Was thinking of a deere 650j but was wondering if...
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    working for the IUOE

    Thinking about trying to get a job with IOUE local 181 and was wondering from some of you who work for the IOUE if you like your career? Do the pay well? Do they keep you close to home or are you living in a hotel room for weeks at a time away from your family I guess thats all i need to ask...
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