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He is in the Muskokas and I am in South Western Ontario but I will be right past his place in several weeks to get a one of my 120D excavators up in the Bracebridge area It worked too darn'd late in the season and the crew left it up there I will be dragging it out of a snow bank some where north of...

there is a guy up my way trying to sell a set of 350 hoe mounts do you want me to look into them?.Digitup.

I am sure that you will find you have a 350 [crawler tractor for the C] and it is a B series machine always go for the 2nd letter on the older machines to find the series of your crawler build you will find the serial #will match up better Just last week I found a other auctioneer trying to sell a 5...

Nothing like a double post .Digitup.

Scotty those old 640 Alpines were brutes for power We had three of them in the local snowmobile club trail groomers arsenal they worked great for many years.The only modification I ever did was I took the butterfly carb off and installed a single Mccuni 44 slide carb on them we got 3 times the fuel ...

Nothing like dashing through the snow with a rusted up set of track chains the colder it gets the better it works as well .I took the old excavator out last winter on the coldest day and did some field running with it the rusted up rail areas were lose in no time and the rust powered out of the kink...

As a contractor I hear this all the time but here is how to bring reality too close for comfort #1insurance 37$ per hour #2 diesel fuel 20$per hour #3 move in charges [Average 1.5 hours per move] a 350 series Dozer job value is around 88$ per hour but contributing factors include ground conditions a...

Ha I got a 5 gallon pail of algae up here in Canada I bought a 550J LGP down south [not running] that is all that was wrong with it but we don't see that crap up here at all so I kept the pail full of that crap that was in the dozer .He shut it off early fall and by spring it wouldn't run he said I ...

NO go buy one that is it .Digitup.

should be OK they will take a heck of a lot more than that with the tracks on could be slamming rocks all day and never hurt it so go for it .Digitup.

We put a 3010-3020 starter on the 450B one time and never looked back in the cold weather they started every time no fooling around with a smaller starter we even up graded the 550s and 550A's & 550B's to that starter didn't need any ether till it was dam cold that was our first up grade to any doze...

I always put winter grease in the roller s any way I have several that have leaked from new and yes they were Deere's own rollers that leaked the little 450J in my blog photo had two leak from 300 hours and I just put a button fitting on .They had sent me two rollers but I just grease the ones on th...

All good grease guns[Alemite or Lincoln etc] will have an instruction sheet for flipping the plunger or rubber from sleeve to cartridge I just got several that have two stages high pressure low volume and low pressure high volume so if you look they will be out there I don't know who makes these gre...

Well one of the first things is there is no such John Deere as a 550C .As I have mentioned many times before what you have looking at the serial plate is a 550 C is for crawler then what is the next letter this is the series letter before you tear it down make sure that the FNR side of shifter has n...

Heavy soils would keep that Ferguson busy pulling that scraper I got the next two implements up for my TEA and TEO 's You won't find many of those Ferguson corn planters here in Ontario but I got one a 1955 by accident at a auction one day for 5 bucks the missing parts on it were the same on a 1975 ...