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[quote="Al Swearengen"][quote="Willie B"]it isn't a Deere though.[/quote] Traitor! :lol: Kidding! Hope you have great success with it![/quote] Cannibalism trumps traitorism hands down. I'll paint a Deer on it if you feel better. I know, I feel guilty myself. In wheel tractors I'm all about internati...

[quote="Paul Buhler"]So are you optimistic or pessimistic about this? Just joking. Merry Christmas to you. Best wishes.[/quote] I'll answer Sunday. For now I'm hopeful. I spent a significant bit of time crawling, looking, studying. It isn't new. pins are somewhat ovaled, but not severe, sprockets sh...

I did it, it isn't a Deere though. I found nearby a 3500 hour TD7G. I like the Cummins engine, twin to my backhoe. Specifications are similar to the early JD 450 series. The seller will deliver Saturday.

Willie

Where would one get these things?

Willie

Taller, but gap toothed. Alternately, a pad grouser will have either two 4" corks on a 16" wide grouser, or a single one in middle. I'll theorize that they rarely encounter pure ice. Typically it's icy, snow, thin soil over rock or ledge. The places I've been are seldom frozen ground. Snow depth is ...

[quote="Stan Disbrow"]Hi, The issue, at least for me, was the machine rotating sideways way too easily on a hillside when plowing snow. Then, the frozen ground acts like a hockey rink and the grousers like skates - and away we go! I went with the other option, ice caulks. They are conical studs that...

[quote="hydrogeo"][quote="Willie B"]A local logger bought 10 350s at one purchase. He had many other John Deere crawlers and skidders. All of his got corked with alternating 2 or 1 short pieces of grouser stock. At the time I was a kid, the people who did the work are gone. What sort of steel are tr...

[quote="B Town"]Here is some good reading http://www.titussteel.com/our-products/grouser-bars/weld-on-procedure/ preheating will make the high carbon low hydrogen electrode puddle and flow much better. Striking and starting cold with 7018 is not ideal, but it can be done[/quote] Preheat yes, and I u...

[quote="lurch85"]*cough I know a lot of people that would take the floor out of a school bus and put the rest on posts...paint it green if you want.[/quote]

I like the idea! Dry storage cheap, and no property tax.

[quote="s281jim"]Check your local codes as to how they deal with 'Picnic Pavillions.' Around here if you keep it under 24', leave the sides open, and no electricity, it falls outside of codes, just an $80 permit, no assessment. Every municipality is different. I love my country and agree we should a...

[quote="s281jim"]Notmeu, it is welded to the base of the pad, perpendicular to the grouser, an attempt to curb sliding sideways on a hill[/quote] This is not the technique I have seen. The mechanics I saw do it years ago used grouser stock of a variety one might use to replace worn off grousers. The...

I know nothing of crawler pads, I'm better informed about welding. Preheat is about two things: sudden temperature change, and shrinkage. If steel remained dimensionally constant after solidifying, there would be little need to preheat. As molten steel cools it freezes, as it cools further, it shrin...

[quote="Scottyb"]Paul, thanks for the tips. I like to try to pull down leaning trees with the root ball attached whenever possible. Once on the ground I cut them off and get the roots out and haul them to the burn pile. Then skid away the log, rake up the branches and around the stump hole then, fin...

The Case 580K 4x4 with extend a hoe & my homemade thumb is the most versatile machine I've ever owned. The thing it is least useful for is grading. It moves too fast, I can't regulate bucket height quick enough, and the cutting edge depends on the rear wheels for level. It seems there is always one ...

I'm feeling it might be better to do it before I have a wreck. I remember my first backhoe, a JD 410. I reasoned a machine that heavy wouldn't need tire chains. I soon learned I had a seven ton hockey puck that would slide effortlessly anywhere gravity wanted it to go.