440ICD Crawler with 6-way blade

bent · Post by **bent** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:36 pm

Has 2-53GM engine (not running)

Later model but not quite "centre throttle".

Selling whole and not parting out

Crawler is complete and is sitting in North Dakota (not here)

Have pics if interested. $5,000 us cash firm.

Willyr · Post by **Willyr** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:00 pm

Why dont you post the pictures?

bent · Post by **bent** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:08 am

bent · Post by **bent** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:09 am

whiteclipse16 · Post by **whiteclipse16** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:17 am

Pretty nice looking crawler.
How many do you have, it looks like I see one with the side boom and another dozer, plus maybe a 420 behind it or something.
You have a pretty good collection.
Do you know what's wrong with the engine?

Post by **Lavoy** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:08 am

Crawler is sitting at my place, (well at the farm, not here), so those are my brothers and mine in the background.
Engine is stuck from sitting.
Lavoy

jtrichard · Post by **jtrichard** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:16 pm

i see at least 11 crawlers and a grader lets see some pics of all your iron Lavoy you have quite the collection

Post by **Lavoy** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:41 pm

Most of it is my brothers, some is stuff Dad bought, tractors only, some is stuff he farmed with many years ago, some he bought in later years for fun.
Lavoy

JWB Contracting · Post by **JWB Contracting** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 7:41 pm

This is exactly the crawler I'm looking for, just a little far to truck it up to Edmonton, Alberta. Have a 253 ready to drop in it as well.

My dad has the sideboom mate to the one in the background. It's a gas unit with a reverser and needs 1 steering clutch rebuilt.

Not sure why I like the 440's so much. Hope to finish mine own Dozer machine of this winter.

Post by **Lavoy** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:37 am

Brent was coming to get it this fall, maybe you can talk him in to coming and getting it.
Lavoy

bent · Post by **bent** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 1:58 pm

Happy New Year!

Circumstances have changed and I can no longer continue with this project. I can't even drive to go get the thing now. Open to offers.

Thanks!

Brent

oscar94 · Post by **oscar94** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 9:43 am

Is this at Lavoys for restoration or rebuilding? Have you decided not to go forward? Has Lavoy gone over it and determined its needs costs etc? I might be interested in going forward if I can get more history.

Thanks

Post by **Lavoy** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 10:40 am

I bought this crawler for myself several years ago, and was going to restore it within the next couple years for myself. Like Brent says, circumstances change, and I found that I would not have time anywhere in the near future to work on a crawler for myself, so I sold it to him. It is still out at the farm, has been stored inside since I bought it, resting comfortably with all the other crawlers. If I did not consider it a very viable candidate for restoration, I would never have kept it whole, I would have killed it. While it is ugly as sin, some of the components on it are as nice as I have ever had, hence why I had originally kept it.
As fas as costs, I really can't answer that, as I don't necessarily look at it in individual terms. If I had restored the crawler for myself, it would have gone down to an empty trans case, and been built back from there as a total rebuild and restoration. Doing things this way are substantially more expensive than repairing an individual part or component/s on an as needed basis, and there are probably things I do that no one else would waste their time or money doing.
Lavoy

oscar94 · Post by **oscar94** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:47 am

Ah. So kind of an all or none situation. would be a very nice one when finished i bet.

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