Poll for what kind of crawler you have.

roofdog · Post by **roofdog** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:19 pm

1010 gas for me-1965 model

digitup · Post by **digitup** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:13 pm

OK guys I thought that we were only counting Deeres in this pole.If I added the rest of my crawler iron old and late model .Well it would take up a page I just traded for two running OC3s adding them to the list last weekend and two parts machines as well for a pond in a swamp hole it took me 4 hours with the 350 widetrack and the 160C excavator .I got quite an addition to the fleet of old stuff behind the shop.It is interesting to see how much you can acquire just before others think you have went too far .Now that brings up a new subject I bet !.Digitup.

Aroostabub · Post by **Aroostabub** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:19 pm

Have one JD430C

1st 2010c · Post by **1st 2010c** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:44 pm

(1) 2010C diesel s/n 27653

decepticon4ever · Post by **decepticon4ever** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:26 am

I have been in Love the 40C ever since I was a kid. My dad had one and I spent many a summer hour ridding on it with him. I wouldn’t hear my mom calling me for dinner when I was next door but I could hear that machine start up 10 miles away and make it there in 30 seconds flat.
Well my dad worked it to death. Literally. He went through finals like you change your socks. He was in the quarry business. Anyhow one terrible day he broke it for good. This was when I was about 8. Well about 6 or 7 years later it was rusted up pretty good. We live up here in the pacific northwest and we get about 40 inches of rain a year. That really does a number on a machine. Dad said I could part it out and take the money to buy my first car, so that’s what I did. The first guy to come out and look bought the whole thing.
Little did I know that years later I would see one like it and get the fever.
Over the last few years I have had it and bought a few machines trying to cure it. I bought at first a 40C 3 roller but it was more then I could afford. I had to borrow the money and just had to much trouble paying it back. I sold it and was able to pay mom back and have a few extra bucks ( thanks mom). As time went by they got to be more expensive and just out of my reach. I bought a Cat….please forgive me…… to see how that made me feel. It didn’t help. I then thought that I would settle for something on rubber. I bought a nice Farmall Cub with a woods 42” belly mower. Nice machine. Mows the lawn and looks really good with my wife sitting on it. But still no better. I finally got a pretty good deal on a 40 standard. Its since just sat and never gotten used. Years have since passed and I had lost hope. Well not all was hopeless. Last Friday when I got home from a camping trip, I for some reason thought I would sniff around on line and see what was on Craigs list. What do you think I found? Well I am on a JD website, so it shouldn’t be hard to guess. I found not only a nice 40C but THE One my dad had. Still had the welded up finals and a few other things he had done to it. Well work had been good to me cause I had money in my pocket and out the door lick-a-ty split. I had it on my trailer in no time and back home where it belonged by Sunday. Here is a picture of it. Its not the greatest picture but its all I have. My wife took it when we picked it up. I hope you all enjoy. Considering I can figure out how to load it.
Ryan

digitup · Post by **digitup** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:49 pm

Ryan congrats on finding that family heirloom . I know where you are at I fell across my dads 52 Ford pickup at the back of his old friends wrecking yard . And he sold it to me for the same price that he bought it from the old guy .A couple of weeks later I found my father inlaws 54 Studebaker pickup .They take up a lot of room in the shed but some day I will do them up original.Digitup.

thomastractorsvc · Post by **thomastractorsvc** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:54 am

I have a JD 440 ICD need some work but runs. My goal is to get it reliable enough to use for landscaping pushing topsoil

Tigerhaze · Post by **Tigerhaze** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:51 am

Ryan-

Congrats on the find! It's amazing how that worked out. I think there was another guy on here from Oregon a year or two ago looking for his dad's crawler; glad that it worked out for you.

You can get the pic on there by inserting the path where the picture is stored between the "img" "/img" brackets.

Rob-
I'd like to do a little pushing of topsoil myself, but as you know it has yet to fully dry out here yet.

decepticon4ever · Post by **decepticon4ever** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:43 pm

Ok Here goes nothing. Trying to figure out how to load the picture.
[img]C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Pictures\email pics\johndeere40C[/img]

decepticon4ever · Post by **decepticon4ever** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:43 pm

I dont think it worked. you will have to give me better directions.
Ryan

decepticon4ever · Post by **decepticon4ever** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:43 am

Ok here I go again.

JD440ICD2006 · Post by **JD440ICD2006** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:37 am

Some of us have had success with posting the pictures at "PHOTOBUCKET.COM" and then copy and paste to the post. The account is free and it is a nice way to store PICS.

emichaelhaynes · Post by **emichaelhaynes** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:04 pm

bulldozerman · Post by **bulldozerman** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:16 am

i have a 420c

Jonny5 · Post by **Jonny5** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:43 pm

Tom, I have a 1010c 1964 with doser blade.

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