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    How many miles?

    Just for fun how many miles do you think you put on a dozer? Last year I ran a 850J for 3 months that had the total control system on it. You could get into the computer and see the miles the machine had on it. In 3 months I put about 1750 miles on it going forward and 800 miles in reverse...
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    Looks like this job is gonna be fun!

    We started a new line today. Look's like this one is gonna be fun! We got about 900 feet of ROW cleared when we came to this. It's not a real tall hill, maybe 50 feet but the first 15 feet or so is literally staight up a solid rock wall. Lucky for us it chipped away fairly easily and...
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    They finally got me.

    After many years of pushing trees one finally got even with me. My first broken window.
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    How would you get it up there?

    Hey guys. Need some suggestions. They are moving me to a new job Monday that has steep hill about 1000 feet long. Friday some of the guys tried to get up it with a D61 winch tractor and a 220 Komatsu hoe. No luck with either. Monday I will be there with my D51 and I'm gonna make a run at it. I'm...
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    D6 9U Rails question.

    Hey guys. My bud and I were out messing around today and stumbled up on a pretty nice D6 9U for a price we couldn't resist. In the deal we got 1 extra rail for it that has very little wear on it. The rails on the tractor are in very good shape and we just cant see us ever needing the extra so we...
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    JD backhoe help

    Hey guys. I just bought an old JD 410 at auction. Seems to be a decent old machine. I'm trying to get a shop manual for it but I'm a little confused on which one I need. The decals just say 410. The serial number is 410-B 1291277. So is this a B model? It has an old repaint on it so it's...
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