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Jasper county down in the SW corner of the state. There is no clay, I used the term sheeps foot in general for compaction. The dirt is fairly fine with quite a few rocks, it's dry as bone right now. I'm fairly sure I ate at least 5 pounds of dirt last night moving stumps and such.

I'm trying to help a guy out with a building site for his shop. He is wanting to place it on a hill that is about 5 feet out of level. He wants to dig out the top of the hill and he does not care that it's going to need a retaining wall in the future and fill the bottom of the hill and again add a r...

All great suggestions, thank you.

Sounds like 6" with some angle at the edge is the ticket. I was thinking at one time of embedding a 2x12 flat where the tracks would ride to give it some shock resistance.

Now I just have to clear a spot for the shop, good thing I own a track loader!

I'm going to build a bay to work on my little 450c loader in my next barn. I know some people leave it gravel so the tracks do not break down the concrete does anyone have any success with actual concrete that will stand up? I was wondering about pouring something 6 or 8" but I hate to waste the mon...

I've had my 450c with no hoe on the scales and she sits a touch over 16,000. I've got the rear counterweight which you probably do not because of the hoe but I still bet you are 17,000 to 18,000. As others have said there are many options that effect it. Mine has a canopy and that adds close to 500 ...

More than likely your vent is plugged up. There is a tube that goes from the cap area out thru the bottom of the tank. Mine had dirt dobbers in it and it took a very long stiff wire in a drill to break thru.

If you leave it pulling a vac it can lead to hard starting and other problems.

I ended up doing the alternator conversion I bought a 1 wire and it works great. I fixed the amp gauge so now I'll know if i'm not charging again. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

I think my Motorola voltage regulator has died. I have read several articles about converting to a 1 wire alt but what about just using a run of the mill voltage regulator? I think the motorola one is about 150 bucks and a car one is less than 20 bucks. They have the same hook up field, stator, etc....

My 450c is missing the rock guards. I've had it a few years now and never had an issue and I work in some pretty rocky ground.

Once I fixed my track tension springs I've never thrown a track again.

Yes the belly pan will come off. My 450c Has a junction point about half way back on the loader. My leak was up front in the nose area. I pulled the nose and the belly pan and was able to get a new braided hydraulic hose to replace that section. When my leak started it was small enough I was able to...

I would say I use 2nd gear in my 450C over 60% of the time. IMHO that is my most important gear. I use 1st for pushing over larger trees etc and loading on the trailer 2nd for most all digging and loading 3rd for long haul of loading and very light digging 4th for road trips to get ice cream..... Gr...

This is not mine, don't know this person from Adam. It's in my local CL and looks like a bargain but I'm not as familiar with the older models.

http://seks.craigslist.org/hvo/4842298714.html

This thread has a write up I did on my springs.

http://www.jdcrawlers.com/messageboard/ ... highlight=

Might help you both get going.

Job well done!

I agree it's not always about cost sometimes it's a matter of pride and doing a good job because you can.

I did not lift the loader. I used my bars to lock the loader arms up, removed the nose and then I just crawled around under it. The rear bolts are kinda hard to get too because of the counterweight but very doable. Including taking the nose off it probably took me an hour to get it tore down. I did ...