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Thank you Gerald and KenP. Both of you have been very helpful and have given me some good information. Your words have convinced me the 350 is the crawler I should buy. The words are: parts are readily available, engine almost bullet proof and reliability. For me serious work would be using a dozer ...

Thanks KenP for your reply. It is very helpful. If the 1010 weighted another ton the price would be at what one could get for today's scrap price, $1250, of course there is the hauling costs to consider. Would be another $200. The 350 is $3200 plus hauling. I am looking for a machine to do some seri...

Hello John Deere people: Today I looked at a John Deere 350 3 cylinder diesel bull dozer. It starts and runs good turns good both right and left. Bushing and pins fair. Sprockets good and sprocket chain has lots of wire, cleat pads lots of wear, idlers would last for a while. In the owners yard and ...

Thank you for the information. The person that sold me the dozer said he changed the fluid. I checked it and it is full. I do not know what he put in it. It looks like automatic transmission fluid. I received a manual today from yesterday tractor, but it only has tractors in it. The John Deere deale...

Hello. I am new to this site. Less than a week ago I purchased a John Deere bull dozer. A 1963 Model 1010. It will move forward about 20 feet then stop. Then it will move backwards sometimes a little more distance then stop. This is with the blade lifted. A steering clutch will stop the machine forw...