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  1. Blue-Fox

    Deere 872D Dash Panel on/ off and now dynamites the park brake

    Hello all, my 2007 872D just started having a problem with the gage cluster - it seemed like the wiring might have been messed up in the column causing it to blink on / off here or there when you moved the rack in or out it could go blank then restart. The machine did not seem to be affected so...
  2. Blue-Fox

    Full Synthetic or Blend - only +.68c more / gal

    I normally run Delvac 10w-30 in my stuff here in Alaska, it starts good in the cold of winter months and stays decent at 200-250hrs even in my old crusty cat stuff. The Local supplier has dropped Delvac for the Guardol line and has the XT 5w-40 full synthetic for .68c more a gallon than the...
  3. Blue-Fox

    Want to move to Alaska?

    Looking for a few year round equipment operator/ part time mechanic / CDL-A is a must. Pay depends on several things. I have some municipality contracts grading roads and plowing snow and can get more of them. Hard to find guys that can pass DOT and have a CDL. Can’t find much good help today...
  4. Blue-Fox

    Drilling tricks for work hardening

    My pa bought this machine anbout 2014, for a contract needed ann AWD grader, and it’s had a gob of issues keeping the cutting edge bolts tight. They are 5/8 bolts and there’s every other hole drilled. So I got it in the shop and started poking holes. I got a box full of bits and even some that I...
  5. Blue-Fox

    Words for the wise

    When one of your young gun operators gets in a grader and says this thing don’t feel right boss. - and the old veteran of 50+ years of grader Ops runs the machine daily says “naw he don’t know what he’s talking about….” You better look.
  6. Blue-Fox

    What is it with welders

    What would posess a guy (full grown man) to think he can bid a job and say 12 hours tops, have her done by monday (working the weekend) and then go do an incomplete job and leave the machine stacked half done for a week, while hes out of the field and come back to the office with a bill for 30...
  7. Blue-Fox

    Lincoln Powerluber Battery

    What are you guys doing about these old NiCad batteries? My grease guns work great but battery packs are shot. I won’t hesitate to buy new but with so many 3D printers out there I felt there’s a better option. There has to be some kind of adapter? Put a dewalt battery on?
  8. Blue-Fox

    Snow Gate Mods

    Playing around here, trying to make an old design work better. It’s really able to clear the moldboard and does not block the flow rolling off the end - unlike the previous model.
  9. Blue-Fox

    Looking for 24” Deere rim AT103567 info

    I have a 2007 Deere 872D with a full set of 17.5x25 3 piece rims n totally bald rock tires. Not working so great in the two foot of snow. I would like to put some of my fresh 14Rx24 titan snow tires on there so I’m hunting a set of the 9x24 one piece rims. There’s some confusion online but...
  10. Blue-Fox

    Bad day turned ok. D8H 46A

    My father, best friend and distant business partner passed away about 18 mos ago and several years of health issues left lots of stuff to get sorted out for this contracting business back on track. I was walking the lay down yard looking at the summers needs back in March and noticed both of the...
  11. Blue-Fox

    Canadian Machinery to USA vs EPA etc

    Ok I hope I am not starting one of those dreaded topics that’s been hammered out a 1000 posts but I searched as many terms as I could think of and came up with nothing. I’m looking at a Deere that’s in Canada and want to export to the US and am getting conflicting information about the EPA...
  12. Blue-Fox

    850 Deere

    I’m going to travel half a day to go look at a “nice” 850 Deere Dozer that might be part of a trade deal for a classic car. the owner says it has a fuel lift pump failing so it won’t stay running. He’s changed out filters and fuel supply is good. He’s got a big company of diesel equipment so I...
  13. Blue-Fox

    Water in hydraulic system

    Bought a used 720A this winter with a Wing on it when my Cat trans went out. I’ve had some weird hydraulic probs that don’t make sense, operator said it feels “stiff” from setting a few years. Machine is loosening up and working pretty good now. Having a random articulation going hard right and...
  14. Blue-Fox

    Mid Mount wing vs Rear

    Stumbled across this unit for sale in my shopping adventures. I have always hated the rear mount snow wing. You end up with a heck of a sore neck for a week after running one. I am curious to learn what you folks might know about running this mid mounted wing or one like it. Other than not being...
  15. Blue-Fox

    Blade Tip Angle Plowing snow…

    I learned to run blade in a 12 with a pony motor. We didn’t have luxury of changing the tip angle on a whim. You got out a couple 2 3/8” box wrenches and it was a bit of a mother bear getting it where you wanted and locked back down. Trying to cut and shape a gravel road I can see the desire to...
  16. Blue-Fox

    Grader Shopping

    Please Tell me what/why/how you personally would spend your saved up cash on what pre-def machine. This machine will primarily be a "county/borough" contractor secondary road maintenance machine. Summer maintenance, Winter plowing, Winging, Scraping ice and will have a Ripper, Front plow, side...
  17. Blue-Fox

    Hello from Alaska

    Hello I just joined up here after several days of searching the web for answers and it seems like most all the questions I had were answered by someone in these threads. I’m from Alaska and grew up 3rd generation in road / pad / site construction and maintenance contracting. I also worked over...
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