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    776 leibherr

    I was youtubing the other day at work looking for some safety vids for work. I saw a high track dozer that looked different. I clicked on it and it's a 776 Leibherr the worlds largest hydrostatic dozer. Looked pretty good even though I'm not a great fan of hydrostatic dozers. I sent it...
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    Any advice about a 2 axle grader.

    Hey guys havent posted in a while been covered up at work. I was wanting to know if any of yall had ever run many 3 axle graders or maintainers. The reason I ask The old AC d I learned on at wok gave up her ghost. The transmission wore out and by wore out I mean all the gears were...
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    Oil pressure sending unit location on an 1840 Case

    My oil pressure light started flickering on alarming on my 1840 Case loader. I ordered a sender but dont know the location. I d like to find out where its at so I ll know where to start y teardown. Case dealer didnt know so im on my own.
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    paving refresher

    The landfill I work for is owned by a large factory. We do slot of their ground maintenance to. After being stiffed by a few contractors or getting the run around the owner bought a bunch of older paving machinery. I was 18-19 the last time I did any. We hired some retired and off season help...
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    Mack parts

    Any one here know of any after market or used Mack dealers. THe company I work for runs a 72,78 and 89 Mack DM sidewinders roll offs. We had Mack tell us a few years ago that Volvo was phasing out the older truck parts lines. THe owner of the company we landfill for likes the...
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    910 Cat

    My older brother picked up an 80's 910 Cat loader at a bargain. THe body has a few dents and the lift pump needs rebuilding. Its stout but its slow lifting. I remeber when I was a kid dad used to getthe little Cat books that had the pictures and silohouttes of the machines. It had...
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    Jd555b

    Can anyone tell me about a JD555B. We run a 38 acre private rubbish landfill. We have 2 JD 762 scrapers for hauling cover road materials but they are laid up in the winter as we have a clay sand mix that wont dry out in the winter enough to run them in. We have a special 20...
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    New Holland Dozers

    I have a friend that has me looking for a dozer for him. He stopped by the dealer i get my stuff from and he saw a low hour DC100 New Holland. Its a wide pad machine. I stopped by today and took a test run on it, THe operating grounds were crowded so I couldnt get in the dirt...
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    341 bobcat crowd problem

    My older brothers 341 crowd arm quit saturday on a job. It would work if you moved the other joystick or function any direction. It also worked at full power doing it like this well enough to finish the trench he was on. Our nearest dealer wont be able to look at it for a few weeks. Is...
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    JD700H opinions wanted

    At the landfill we are looking to upgrade our trusty old D5B. JD brought out a 700 with 8000 hours on the clock and new rails. It had a scarifier on it at one time. and a pin on rake one time. It looks well cared for. Ive run it the last 2 work days. About 45 minutes till...
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    503 Galion parts.

    Anyone here might know where I could find a transmission for a Galion 503 A series with a square nose. My brother has one that the shuttle was supposedly down on but the whole front gear set was mangled. He Looks like some one didnt adjust out the shifter lever linkage and it wasnt...
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    Gradall with knuckle boom attatchment

    My wife and I were on vacation in St Augustine Florida and decided to go see a freind in East Palatka and ride through Hastings. Between EPalatka and Hastings I spotted this rig. Its a Gradall on tracks with the KB attachment...
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    Unit Digging dogs.

    I have a few questions for the older crane gents on here. Im working an a friends place and his dad has an old Unit dragline out there. I need to clean out a siilt pond with it. I cant figure out how to set the dogs on it not to drag it towardsthe pond. Its aggravating...
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    Cat part numbers

    I was a t a friends surplus shop and he had a box of Cat parts. I mean NOS stuff. there was some 10 inch long boxes that are 2 inches square and they look like Cat stuff from the 50s60s. I opened one and there was spring in it and a a bakelite/fiber disca bout 7/8s diamete with a 1/4...
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    Front blade on a grader

    I know I haven seen many front blades on graders here but ive seen pics from Europe where most have them. I read an old Brochure on AC's D grader with front blade but that was a smaller machine. I guess it would be handy to knock down piles when spreading. Theres a big Deere...
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    Klein Apron

    With all these old pics of Tournapulls I thought yall might like to hear about a Klein apron/elevator. My Old freind tht passed away last year ran AC and IH and Terex scrapers. He had an old AC 260 with a straight shift. It had a funny look to it as it was an elevator or paddle wheel...
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    JD 762 fun

    We run 2 JD 762 elevators at work. Our ariginal one died aout 9 years ago whe nthe previous landfill owners didnt want to have a transmission done for it when we were closing. We were bought and reopened and I found a 762 in Athens AL. We bought it with a weak motor and bad chains...
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    D5k

    Yall Ive complained to dad about the D5B at work about how old it was and gettin the have a few more break downs not many but usual stuff. Been tryin g to get a cab because of the new more dusty stuff at the lanfill. Dad talked to the owners and whle we were getting the D5's radiator...
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    Gearmatic Winch

    Anyone ever mess with a Gearmatic winch. Its on the back of the 518 Cat skidder we bought as a back up trash compactor. We installed a a rake and trash rack for compactor duty and clearing some cut overs on the site. We also left the grapple on it also. The previous...
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    D5B help

    We ve had a bad run of luck at the landfill. Our 518 compactor conversion puked the motor. And then we bought another one a spare while the mechanic was working on this one. Well it wentdown for a few days and we got behind as the Cat and our other mechanic companies are backed up...
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