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    JD 450 C backhoe parts

    I have the whole backhoe assembly to go on a 450C which I will sell you
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    Is it easy to learn a trade without ANY experience?

    Maybe he did Gramps but now lets examine what kind of a job he has been doing is the occupant of the oval office. Can't say that being a community organizer/rabal rouser was much of a training ground for him. Or is being a black moslom and illegal alien got anything to do with it too
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    Pull scraper questions

    One other thing. If using a Cat 70 or 435, reinforce the gooseneck. The old 70's were not built for the higher horse power of the D7E's, F's and G's. It is possible to tear them apart.
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    cat d7e 48xxxx bleeding injectors??

    The one I had years ago didn't have primer pump. I had same thing happen once. Just cracked the nuts on the fuel lines coming out of the injector pump, opened the compression release and turned it over till fuel came up. The transfer pump will help that happen quick. You can also crack the...
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    Need to put air to the rear of my L8000 Ford.

    What are you looking for? You just want air to pintl hitch or the cushion? Or air for the trailer brakes? I have done both and always just bought the individual parts.
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    Heavy Equipment Operator training question.

    First thing you are going to have to do is get in some place. I would go for the apprenticeship program. To become an apprentice you don't necessarily have to go union. Many operators start out as a laborer first.
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    Cabs and Seats - We need your help!

    Keep it simple and rugged. Make it easy to adjust. About the only thing I want is to be able to set the angle on the back to suit me. Make the cushions easy to replace. They will wear out. Make the cushions easy to keep clean. So many things today have become over designed with lots of...
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    D7G Crawler

    Around here a very good D7G brings about $40 to $45,000 US. A D8K or late model D8H will do comparable work and won't bring anything near 80,000
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    Time for new F350, 2014 or wait for 2015?

    Allgood, Is GM in a death spiral? Let see here, first it was good bye to Oldsmobile. Then all in one swoop there was Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer. Prior to that the heavy truck division got sold off to Volvo. Electromotive Diesel Locomotives I believe was sold off also. Several parts...
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    Time for new F350, 2014 or wait for 2015?

    I am a Ford Superduty Guy with f350's, with Diesels and 6 speed standards. Won't be any new ones of any kind here any more. I have heard nothing but bad about all of the newer ones of all kinds due to the emissions things. No power, poor mileage, automatic transmission problems, the list goes...
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    flat bed ideas

    I picked up a very nice utility body to replace the rusted out beat up pick up box on my 1999 Ford F350. Love it with all the compartments
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    Cat classic parts?

    For older parts I first go looking for "new old stock" which has been bought from Cat dealers who don't want to stock it any longer
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    tri axle vs. quad

    real no brainer for me. Go for the quad. I switched long time ago from tri to quad and never regretted it one bit. I am in Wisconsin. Tri can gross at 64,500 gross and quad at 73,000. Few tri's lift around here.
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    Dumb farmer needs some pull scraper operation pointers

    Push Cat would get him loaded stumpjumper83. Next problem is if he has to pull any steep grades he will run out of traction trying to pull that much load. I am not sure of weight of a Cat N0.90 and the capacity but a Cat No. 80 is close to 80,000 pounds loaded. The width of cut of the pull...
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    Dumb farmer needs some pull scraper operation pointers

    No. 90 was built to be pulled by a D9. I ran into same problem when I tried to put a No. 80 Cat behind a D7. Not enough weight up front.
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    Best Battery Charger????

    Associated is excellent but very expensive. I have one that can be used for 6, 12, 18 and 24 volts. It has a boost setting for starting also if batteries are down.
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    9630 John Deere scraper tractor broke

    Since it is a Deere I am going to assume that it is made of Ductile Iron rather then Cast Steel. Take a piece of it to a good lab. Tell them you want it analyzed, hardness test, polished and a photomicrograph of it done. The chemistry will tell you what grade of material it is supposed to be...
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    Wombat HT 50 Skid Steer - Chinese Bobcat!

    Sounds good when you say it fast d4dozer. That version of a Case skidsteer goes back to probably the 1970's. They had an air cooled small four cylinder gasoline engine, drive train that left everything to be desired, had no power, no push, no response inthe hydraulics. They were a very crude...
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    Wombat HT 50 Skid Steer - Chinese Bobcat!

    Lee, you are right except you forgot to put in "very very old" in front of the Case. As usual the chinese probably bought one here that was wore out and took it back to copy it.
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    Volvo T450D

    I am suggesting a conventional scraper design that gets the bowl right up behind the power unit with good visibility of the cutting edge and transfers weight right to the drive tires which means the pivot point needs to be right over the wheels or just a short bit behind it. Europe has never...
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