JD 350bb Trouble
i dont know where your at but there is a 350b loader near minneapolis on craigslist with bad reverser for 3000 OBO says rest is good i would keep my eye out for a non runner for parts machine
2010 with 622 dozer with mod. 35 ripper and a 2010 with 622 dozer bought in 1969 and a 2010 loader with drott and mod. 36 ripper
That poor old girl has definitely seen some better days. If you want to keep this machine, as jtrichard suggests ,it might pay to get a parts machine. That is assuming you can find one with a decent undercarriage. According to JD parts, to get a set of chains with pads will be over $4000, then you need 10 rollers at $210 each. You would still need new track frames, which you would have to go to a salvage yard or get a "donor" machine. Then you have all the incidentals, track adjusters, recoils, figuring out what has happened to the crossbar. Thats not even getting into the rest of the machine! I don't mean to discourage you, I HATE to see these little buggers go to the grave but,you get the point, it doesnt take long for stuff to add up!
My opinion might be a little different than the rest, but I don't know what your plans are for the crawler.
The way I look at it, for that price you got a free crawler. If you want to keep it long term, and are willing to do the work, no problem. Yes, the undercarragie is shot, for somewhere in the neighborhood of $5000-$6000, you can put all new rails, pads, rollers, and sprockets on it. For most people, that removes undercarriage as an issue for the rest of your lifetime. Yes, the bent trackframe sucks, but for the most part, anything bent can be bent back. Not sure what causes it, but I have straightened several on two cylinder crawlers, but more on loaders.
Extreme worst case scenario, what if you put $10,000 in it, and use it for the next 10 years, 20, ???? The work you can do with that setup will be worth more than that by a large margin, and if owning a machine and doing it yourself is worth anything to you, so much the better.
If, however, you have no interest in long term, then I agree, look for a parts machine with a good undercarraige and just tune it up good enough to work.
Either way, you really can't lose.
Lavoy
The way I look at it, for that price you got a free crawler. If you want to keep it long term, and are willing to do the work, no problem. Yes, the undercarragie is shot, for somewhere in the neighborhood of $5000-$6000, you can put all new rails, pads, rollers, and sprockets on it. For most people, that removes undercarriage as an issue for the rest of your lifetime. Yes, the bent trackframe sucks, but for the most part, anything bent can be bent back. Not sure what causes it, but I have straightened several on two cylinder crawlers, but more on loaders.
Extreme worst case scenario, what if you put $10,000 in it, and use it for the next 10 years, 20, ???? The work you can do with that setup will be worth more than that by a large margin, and if owning a machine and doing it yourself is worth anything to you, so much the better.
If, however, you have no interest in long term, then I agree, look for a parts machine with a good undercarraige and just tune it up good enough to work.
Either way, you really can't lose.
Lavoy
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Jacobs3273
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