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by CuttingEdge
Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:39 am
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: Standard Schedule 40 pipe for hydraulics?
Replies: 4
Views: 4314

I think you would be just fine, more importantly though you are replacing your steel lines with steel lines. A lot of people do not realize this but steel lines are part of the hydraulic cooling system so to speak. That is, they dissipate a lot of heat to atmosphere, something you don't get when rep...
by CuttingEdge
Sun Jul 17, 2016 1:22 pm
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: 350 Broken foot brake linkage
Replies: 14
Views: 11307

My worst runaway was on a 666 Clark Skidder. I dropped down over this hill backwards to get a twitch of wood. It was steep, and it did not have brakes, so I kept backing up easy like, then dropping it forward to keep my speed in check. That worked until it stalled the skidder and backwards I went un...
by CuttingEdge
Sat Jul 16, 2016 5:39 pm
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: 350 Broken foot brake linkage
Replies: 14
Views: 11307

Brakes; I thought that was what the blade was for? (Joke) While I have only owned my dozer for a few months now, I think I might have hit the foot brake once since I owned it. Granted I do not own land that is steep in nature or that sort of thing either though. When I was just a kid (10 years old) ...
by CuttingEdge
Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:27 am
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: Diference btwn 450E and 450G?
Replies: 9
Views: 8632

You have not tried Vtrack, which is a valuepart subsidiary? They have track shoes listed for John Deere 450E's on their website. That was where my track shoes came from on my dozer although it was through a local after market parts place, but you could call their toll free number and get advice I am...
by CuttingEdge
Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:18 am
Forum: Show & Tell
Topic: mowing
Replies: 1
Views: 3806

It has been really hot here too; at 90 degrees for several days. My dozer has never overheated, in fact it does not even hit the warm temperature range, but my tractor sure can. The interesting part is if I am cutting tree length wood, my tractor operates well into the red, I must be in 5th gear and...
by CuttingEdge
Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:11 pm
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: JD350D 3-pt hitch
Replies: 29
Views: 20092

'Runs but has a vibration'. I translate that to 'Won't run for long'. Have to laugh at your prescience. I have a Toyota PU with a 22r engine that ran well "except for this knock" for multiple years. I finally took it apart a few years ago and found a spun bearing. In working on this problem, I expa...
by CuttingEdge
Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:05 pm
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: JD350D 3-pt hitch
Replies: 29
Views: 20092

Jeesh Princeton, MN...my old stomping grounds from my old railroading days. Only 1640 miles from home, but who is counting? (Actually I was, I got paid mileage back then when I went back and forth between Maine and MN). I knew a guy in town that scrapped his old Western-Austin when prices for scrap ...
by CuttingEdge
Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:41 am
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: JD350D 3-pt hitch
Replies: 29
Views: 20092

I used the 6 way blade of my bulldozer in our home garden to make the potato mounds, angling and tilting the blade in one direction, then going the other way for the form the hump. It worked, but even I admit it was a bit overkill. Just tell her in California they have irrigation ditches and your Go...
by CuttingEdge
Sat Jul 09, 2016 8:26 am
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: JD350D 3-pt hitch
Replies: 29
Views: 20092

I must say Stan, right now there is a 770 John Deere Grader working the road outside my house and while the good book with very thin pages says "not to covet", I must admit that I am lusting greatly for it. Do you think I could convince the wife I need a grader? I broached the subject this morning. ...
by CuttingEdge
Sat Jul 09, 2016 8:18 am
Forum: Show & Tell
Topic: The Wallenstein Solution
Replies: 7
Views: 8773

No clamp needed. I tried moving my round bales and I can do it with just the log loading grapple. That is nice; no switching out to move logs and then hay bales. It is fast at moving them too. Because it is fast and simple to load and go, I am making some pretty fast round trips. A disappointment ha...
by CuttingEdge
Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:09 am
Forum: Off-topic discussions
Topic: JD350D dozer current ballpark value
Replies: 10
Views: 7907

One other thing I thought of today is another vast difference between a skid steer and dozer is the distance from cutting edge to the operators eye. Weight wise, my buddy's John Deere Skid Steer is 8000 pounds which is only a ton or so lighter then a John Deere 350, he has a birds eye view of his bu...
by CuttingEdge
Sun Jul 03, 2016 5:23 pm
Forum: Off-topic discussions
Topic: JD350D dozer current ballpark value
Replies: 10
Views: 7907

The skid steers definitely was the rock that put the tipping point of the tracks over on the small dozers production of the bigger USA makers that is for sure. They do have a lot of attachments and if someone cannot justify buying the attachment outright, they can probably be rented. Still there are...
by CuttingEdge
Sun Jul 03, 2016 1:04 pm
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: JD420 Pallet Fork Build
Replies: 31
Views: 23676

I never ground any of my welds at the shipyard, I can say that! Of course we were union so GRINDERS were employed to do such work! :-) I was always told a good looking weld does not need to be ground much, but the US Navy looks at it different, every weld must be ground. A lot of it has to do with t...
by CuttingEdge
Sun Jul 03, 2016 12:55 pm
Forum: Late model JD crawler technical support
Topic: JD350D 3-pt hitch
Replies: 29
Views: 20092

I hear you Stan. I would sell my first born child for a road grader at this point as it would be nice to level my fields I am converting from forest, BUT that is all it would do.
by CuttingEdge
Sat Jul 02, 2016 3:53 pm
Forum: Early model JD crawler technical support
Topic: JD420 Pallet Fork Build
Replies: 31
Views: 23676

Make sure you run stringers (narrow weld beads) with no weaving. Layer up your welds to get bigger ones. (one in, two over for most welds) No long arcing; keep your rod tight to your metal. Weld as much as you can in the flat or vertical position. Even pro welders do. Amps is penetration. Run the ri...