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I agree with logger a friend of mine has a band saw manufacturing business and he has told me many times working for me even that wave cut or wondering cut lumber is from may different factors .From too little band tightness to catching a nail on one side of the teeth or from too much crowd to froze...

I think the sapling took and parted the the kick plate from the floor plate I know it went right in the middle of the heal at the seam then off the heal of his boot .That was a while ago and I never took his boot off They had that job in the hospital I drove his dozer to my truck and the big job was...

when pushing over small brush you really have to be on guard .We had a backhoe operator push some brush down and backup as he did he crammed a sapling between the block and the injector pump .Guess which one lost yep I put a new pump on it and core value was 0$ Some 25 years ago I was cleaning up sw...

I know the guy that owned that 440 that is in Owen Sound and it isn't far from me even at this point I could look into it .The guy that had it he is a friend and had three 440s and he still has two of them .There are a pile of them here I got a 440B several years ago but it is just too handy to let ...

We did an Ice road 4 years ago and just keep the ice cleaned off all the time and let the cold drive down in to it you need about 16 inches of good ice for a small light crawler and closer to 20 inches for a 350-450 crawler [There wasn't an insurance company in Canada that would cover a crawler on a...

acetone will eat the seals out so watch that .I would use water and a heat gun right after to dry things out .Digitup.

well you be the judge The 450Es were not the best machine in the 450 Deere series and the 450Gs were the best machine in the 450 Deere series as far as I am concerned.as far as differences in machine the 450E tracks with the 24 inch grousers are better for traction in soft going and the 16 inch pads...

If that linkage gets wore out you can have problems centering it not only the linkage but also the shaft is a big problem neutralizing out can be a scary problem on the old Deere Hydro's they will wander off on there own so be careful !! don't leave it idle and not be in it .Digitup.

We use a pair of Challenger 65 tracks opened up and lay them across the road I do work for a few Mennonite groups with the drainage plows and they don't like to pay for a float truck to just cross the pavement so they decided that putting 3 inch hard wood planks down double wide was enough .Well not...

Don't pull the head remove the oil pan the sleeves will eat out on the motor so pull the pan and see if the water is from the lower o ring seal on the sleeve I know that sounds like bad news but all newer diesels have that issue from time to time ,Digitup.

Ya Lavoy I had a 8240 Terex with a 6 foot drainage plow on it just a brute of a machine !.I was topping a hill one day and wanting to drain the low spot on the other side I took the top 8 inches of the hill with the blade and the drainage plow was right slammed at the 6 foot deep point The old Green...

Always run a Detroit like you want it spread it's guts across the acerage you are working on and if it isn't working shut it off oil pressure is just one factor the scavenger air is the other if you aren't at more than 1700 rpm the scavenger system[roots screw air pump] is working like turbo lag and...

It,s the same oil but get new seals and top it off again Book says both finals take 28 quarts each and transmission takes 54 quarts both take Hy-guard Digitup.

We try to fill the throttle cable with WD40 and shove the water out of the cable as when they get cold they will freeze watch your hydraulic oil and fuel for water contamination I have had several dozers go too dam far this year as we did a contract for 3/4 of a mile of tunnel under a local town I k...

At least the Folgers intake and concrete hurricane proof cap were installed I have seen them with a heck of a lot less cover.Over all that isn't in that bad of shape!.Digitup.