450B dozer with 3 point?

[mot]

Found on Milwaukee crigslist
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/grd/1955003914.html

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Not a 3-pt as we'd know it in the ag world, but some variant on a toolbar. Must have had a powered tool attached, given that odd looking PTO shaft it also sports.

I've never seen a 450 with a 3-pt, and don't know if Deere ever offered one as an option like they did on the 350....

Still, one could get creative with a toolbar and make it into a 3-pt.

I'm always looking for a 350 in the area that sports a toolbar, specifically one that takes scarifier shanks. Should I ever find one, then I'll add a couple pull arm hooks so I can mount a bushhog as well. Those being my two uses for something on the back of a crawler.

For now, though, I bushhog using a trailing deck on the drawbar of the 420. Gets the job done well enough!

Later!

Stan

[JD440ICD2006]

Stan,

Any problems with the tracks of your 420C pressing the grass and such down to where the bush hog blade does not cut it?

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Well, yes the tracks do compress grass and weeds and such.

My use for the DozerHog is to whack the heck out of fields that have sat too danged long and are full of small trees.

I run with the blade a few inches off the ground and what folds under gets whacked. What does not gets uprooted and pushed to the edge of the treeline.

So, it's not grass I'm after here. The saplings that wind up under the tracks tend to set back up in time for the blades to do their whacking job.

If I'm just cutting grass and weeds, then I opt to use the wheel tractor and either the sicklebar or the flail mower.

The DozerHog's best feature is that the whacked stumplet ends of the small trees can't pop a hole in a tire - I don't have any!

Then, the tracks can also be used to mangle the ends of the stumplets such that next year, when a wheel tractor is in there, they aren't going to be popping any tires, either!

Anything too large wound up uprooted in step one, anyway. Then, the dozer blade can smooth out the hole later if necessary.

DozerHog - everyone needs one!

It would be better, of course, if the 420c had a 3 pt and could pick the hog up. A trailing hog works, but I have to power it down for tight turns and take it off if I want to do anything that looks like real dozing.

I did about 10 acres this past spring for the farmer that leases the land next door. He's been reclaiming the field a bit at a time. He got out there with a 4840 and a batwing hog and soon poked a hole in one of the rear tires. Bummer.

I went over with the DozerHog and picked up where he left off. And, no flats! Not as fast as the 4840 and a batwing, but faster than a 4840 with a batwing *and* a flat tire!

After he fixed the tire, and swapped that batwing hog for a big old disc, that disused field now grows corn.

Or, tried to anyway. It got too hot and too dry too early this year and none of the corn produced diddly/squat. So, it was bust for this year. But, there's no need to whack saplings in that particular field next year!

Later!

Stan

[JD440ICD2006]

Great point!
I have never had to check the air pressure in my 440 tracks.