Can anyone help me justify this purchase?

waterman28 · Post by **waterman28** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:25 pm

Hello all,
I am new here to the board but think that all of you here are just great. This weekend I finally jumped off the fence and made a purchase. It's a brand new to me 1963 1010. I will post more info soon. Happy digging.

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Post by **Lavoy** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:29 pm

If you are looking for help justifying your purchase, you came to the wrong place, most of us just buy it and suffer the consequences!

Good looking crawler.
Lavoy

JD440ICD2006 · Post by **JD440ICD2006** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:29 pm

The only way crawler people can stay happy is to have much more than they can play with or fix.

I get tickled when people ask how much something is worth. My only question is, "do you want it or not"? It is not like they are making this cool stuff anymore.

Looks great! Have fun!

waterman28 · Post by **waterman28** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:41 pm

JD440ICD2006
(The only way crawler people can stay happy is to have much more than they can play with or fix.)
Thanks, Looks like I am headed in the right direction than.

MADJACK · Post by **MADJACK** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:42 pm

I keep telling my old lady about all the cool things I'll be able to do around the property.... once I fix the this or that on it.

Stan Disbrow · Post by **Stan Disbrow** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:29 pm

Hi,

Looks good to me.

You have a hole in your yard? No? Well, then: there is your justification!

If you *do* have a hole in your yard, then your justification is that you *don't* want a hole in your yard!

You can test the old girl out by doing what they do in basic training in the Army: dig a hole and fill it in again!

A buddy of mine bought a skid steer loader that needed some serious TLC (as in it had a pile driver for one of the three pistons). Once he got it sorted and fixed up, I had him move some small-ish piles of dirt I had here and there and make me one large pile of dirt.

I had made the small piles by scraping up the sod at the end of one field because my wife wanted to plant some gourd rows there (don't ask, trust me).

I scraped with my 420c crawler/dozer and put the piles on the ends of the rows. That was untidy, though. Looked like a dragon had a bad time with the old bowels along the edge of the treeline.

It looks a lot better with one large pile now. And, it was a good time for my buddy testing out his skiddy.

Hope yours has a lot less trouble than his did....

Later!

Stan

waterman28 · Post by **waterman28** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:23 pm

Stan,

Thanks for the suggestions, since I didn't have a hole and I had some stuff that needed to go into a hole I took your advice and made one.

After I got the stuff into the hole that needed to go into a hole I decided that I didn't need the hole anymore so I filled the hole back up.
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I had a complete great time doing all this work and felt like I was on top of the world.

I cant wait for something else that needs a hole. I have a couple of mechanical questions that need answers and I hope some of you Deere whisperers can help me out. I will post in tech support.

Thanks
Scott

JD440ICD2006 · Post by **JD440ICD2006** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:11 pm

That looks like fun!
It is apparent that you are not a stranger to working a bladed unit. Nice work.

waterman28 · Post by **waterman28** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:16 pm

JD440ICD2006,
I don't have a lot of seat time but I understand the basics.
Scott

digitup2 · Post by **digitup2** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:25 pm

See you just justified having the old Deere!!If I had to justify every machine I bought to my wife she would have had me committed years ago.Digitup.

waterman28 · Post by **waterman28** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:35 pm

digitup2 wrote:See you just justified having the old Deere!!If I had to justify every machine I bought to my wife she would have had me committed years ago.Digitup.

Wow, I didn't know it would be so easy to justify, I see a lot of old iron in my future.

Stan Disbrow · Post by **Stan Disbrow** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:18 am

Hi,

Yep! That's the ticket!!

All old iron is just that easy to justify:

1) You think of a job to use it for on the way home.

2) You get it off the trailer and go do that job.

3) You talk for a week about how great a job that was, and how easy it was to do now that you have that wonderful piece of iron.

4) Your spouse tells you to shut up about that piece of iron, and go sleep with it if you love it so much!

5) You shut up - and never have to worry about hearing anything about 'ugly pieces of iron you never use'. Your spouse won't dare mention it for fear that you'll go on for *another* week about how great that piece of iron is!

I learned this from my dad! That's how he handled mom when it came to pieces of old iron!

Handy!

Stan

digitup2 · Post by **digitup2** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:08 pm

Dam got to try that Stan I just might be in the dog house for a while though When I get an other machine lately wife gets an other doll for her collection so I got her Two dolls and set them on the table in her collection room .She came storming into the shop after finding them and I told her I guess I got some purchasing to do to catch up to you now YER GETIN AHEAD OF ME DEAR![didn't go over well] She knows I see a new dozer or two in the future the two oldest 550Js are getting big hours on them and starting to show it .Digitup.

stmftr395 · Post by **stmftr395** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:51 am

Scott; Maybe one of the neighbors dog needs a hand with a hole for its bone? Mark

1010crazy · Post by **1010crazy** » Sat May 01, 2010 10:48 pm

That is one nice looking hole

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