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I think that set up would have worked reasonably well back in the day. Even today we have plenty of implements from that era that were raised and lowered by mechanical means; sprockets, chains and cams and whatnot. My family raised potatoes and the two dolly wheel arrangement would have allowed the ...

Is there an auxiliary hydraulic port on a JD 350D? I am assuming there would be in order to operate an add-on backhoe perhaps? I'd like to get as much pressure and flow as possible.

I hate snakes myself, but I am so glad I live in Maine. This is the only state in the nation that does not have poisonous snakes. Of course that really does not matter, any snake I see gives me a heart attack. In our family it is against family creed and NOT kill it. My wife, she will pick up snakes...

That is a lot better idea. Thanks Lavoy, I have not got much operating time on it yet, but I can see there is a lot of slop in the control lever. The center pivot pin and the pins and bushings on the main frame for the blade are worn too. More than I would like anyway. Now that it is home I must loo...

In about an hour the guy that is going to haul my dozer home is coming to grab me, then it in turn. This should be an adventure, with him; it always is. With my last dozer; a John Deere Trackloader, the valves were shot right after I bought it, so my neighbor-mechanic a half mile down the road said ...

Who made the first crawler? I have heard arguments made that Benjamin Holt did, but then I heard he watched a Centepede (a Lombard Log Hauler patent rights holder) in action in Wisconsin and then came out with his lagged tractor. Of course everyone from the southern half of Maine claims Lombard was ...

I am late to the party (as I always am), but maybe for those that read this and probably haven't started pouring concrete yet, is to consider radiant floor heat as well. If you are going to lay half the day on a concrete floor, having it warm takes some of the drudgery out of it.

Around here the old farmers said they would just jump on those old steel bucket seats without a thought on many a cold morning and realized years later maybe that was what caused their hemorrhoids We laugh, but because it happened to them they told us younger ones to always flop down a towel or shir...

You guys can make fun of me, but even though I have loaded many a piece of equipment, I actually dislike it greatly. In other words it scares me. This is an old photo and probably you guys have seen it, but it scares me just seeing it. Lavoy said to keep things sane so while there are graphic photos...

Hey thanks, I did forget a major issue though...well major expense and pain in the rump to fix, and that is excessive slop in the blade control lever. The previous owner said he looked into fixing it and the parts alone was $1000! I HATE SLOP in control levers so I was thinking maybe drilling the co...

I work at a shipyard as a welder and one of the reasons they do not use robots is because of positions we must get into and for long periods of time. People ask, "don't you use knee pads", and we always do, but kneeling on steel for 40 hours a week wrecks your knees. 1 out of 3 welders and shipfitte...

Bringing home my latest bulldozer; a 1988 John Deere 350D with 6 way blade today. It has been 2 years in the making for buying this particular crawler. It is not my first, I got my affinity for John Deere Crawlers when I was a kid when my father bought a 1965 John Deere 1010 bulldozer with outside b...

[quote="Stan Disbrow"]Hi, Back in 2008 I was looking to pick up a ReLife 350 from Deere. The price ran from 30-40k depending on if it was a C or D and what was hung on it. Oh, and you had to put an existing 350 C or D on a railroad car to get ReLifed.... I will say that one has to spend 15-20k for a...

By the way; is that a decent price? I hated to ask because I am sure the regulars are asked this a lot, but the 1988 JD 350 D I am looking at buying has an asking price of $10,000 with no winch. The tracks are completely rebuilt (pins, bushings, front idlers, rear sprockets and idlers) and rebuilt m...

Trust me on this one...better to unbolt the wench and keep it outside and use a logging arch then to have the wench inside. Even the Bible backs me up on this: Proverbs 21.9: " Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman ." I have had two ex-wenches and...