heres a few pics of the 420

Willycoyote · Post by **Willycoyote** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:29 pm

just bought this 420 its still in the shed till things dry up and i can haul her home

KenP · Post by **KenP** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:45 pm

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Willycoyote · Post by **Willycoyote** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:14 pm

not that i know of lol. the po used the cat to haul logs to his sawmill kept his chains ans chokers in the box and a few tools plus his saw. im hoping to restore the old girl with my son

gus · Post by **gus** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:59 pm

Question,
In the last photo, what are the two long levers, low on the right of the dash, pointing horizontally and to the front?? Look like they have black round knobs on them. I've not seen anything like that before?? What do they do?
Gus

Willycoyote · Post by **Willycoyote** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:00 pm

the one is the gear shift the other two rods hook up to th hydrualic control valve

Rick Kr · Post by **Rick Kr** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:34 pm

Looks in good shape. You got to love those old green dozers. Looks like you have the PTO shaft for yours too.

Rick

JD440ICD2006 · Post by **JD440ICD2006** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:53 pm

Nice looking 420C. The quality of the restoration is at least partially diven by what you begin with, you should have a very nice crawler when you are done.

Stan Disbrow · Post by **Stan Disbrow** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:28 am

gus wrote:Question,
In the last photo, what are the two long levers, low on the right of the dash, pointing horizontally and to the front?? Look like they have black round knobs on them. I've not seen anything like that before?? What do they do?
Gus

Hi,

Yes, the one with the knob on it is the 4-speed gearshift lever. The usual lever for a tractor is straight up, but it would foul the steering levers on a crawler. So, they bent forward and down it to clear.

The later 5-speed uses a shorter lever and they designed in an offset to one steering lever to clear it. Either way, something is going to look odd!

The rods are to the two hydraulic valves for the blade cylinders. The valves are mounted on top of the hyd reservoir and the rods connect them to the control lever.

Other setups have the valves on the fenders, so again they had more than one way to make things work.

later!

stan

Willycoyote · Post by **Willycoyote** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:32 pm

today i picked up the 420 and grought her to the shop to start checking her out first 3 pics are at the sellers last couple are at the shop was a 100 mile drive.

Ray III · Post by **Ray III** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:18 pm

Stan Disbrow wrote:
gus wrote:Question,
In the last photo, what are the two long levers, low on the right of the dash, pointing horizontally and to the front?? Look like they have black round knobs on them. I've not seen anything like that before?? What do they do?
Gus
Hi,

Yes, the one with the knob on it is the 4-speed gearshift lever. The usual lever for a tractor is straight up, but it would foul the steering levers on a crawler. So, they bent forward and down it to clear.

The later 5-speed uses a shorter lever and they designed in an offset to one steering lever to clear it. Either way, something is going to look odd!

The rods are to the two hydraulic valves for the blade cylinders. The valves are mounted on top of the hyd reservoir and the rods connect them to the control lever.

Other setups have the valves on the fenders, so again they had more than one way to make things work.

later!

stan

I love the offset steering levers though. They put both steering handles in your left hand like a modern bulldozer.

The cage in the pics is pretty nice, want something like that on my 420.

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