aighead
Senior Member
Hey, my neighbor, back in March, had a medical episode which has left him in a assisted living facility since then. His wife has said that, essentially, his brain has broken, and while it sounds like he can still get around a bit and feed himself and stuff he can not remember things and he is stuck in a loop. Quite sad.
This neighbor is/was a skilled mechanic and has some stuff to show for it, but his wife has asked if I know how to go about selling a bulldozer he bought, as a project, a few years ago. He's done a fair amount of work to it, got it running but he was having trouble with the clutch packs (if I recall properly) on the tracks, with one being seized, so the machine wouldn't turn, just go forward and backward. It hasn't run since at least March, but probably earlier, when I helped move it into his carport.
Regardless of any of this, again as I understand it, this is an older dozer, meant to do "some" work but also to keep the older machinery running and alive, he wanted to be able to take it to shows and stuff.
Do you guys have any suggestions for what I need to learn about this machine or how to go about attempting to help the neighbor sell it? I don't have eternal time to do everything but it'd be nice to set her on a decent path to getting rid of it. It's not a small dozer either, which doesn't help. Any transport is going to be a serious endeavor and I assume there aren't a lot of folks out there willing to buy or work on such a thing.
I'm pretty sure she'd be happy for me to climb all over the machine to find any badges or info, but I'm not at all sure of the work he's done, things he's removed or repaired, parts he has laying around, etc...
This neighbor is/was a skilled mechanic and has some stuff to show for it, but his wife has asked if I know how to go about selling a bulldozer he bought, as a project, a few years ago. He's done a fair amount of work to it, got it running but he was having trouble with the clutch packs (if I recall properly) on the tracks, with one being seized, so the machine wouldn't turn, just go forward and backward. It hasn't run since at least March, but probably earlier, when I helped move it into his carport.
Regardless of any of this, again as I understand it, this is an older dozer, meant to do "some" work but also to keep the older machinery running and alive, he wanted to be able to take it to shows and stuff.
Do you guys have any suggestions for what I need to learn about this machine or how to go about attempting to help the neighbor sell it? I don't have eternal time to do everything but it'd be nice to set her on a decent path to getting rid of it. It's not a small dozer either, which doesn't help. Any transport is going to be a serious endeavor and I assume there aren't a lot of folks out there willing to buy or work on such a thing.
I'm pretty sure she'd be happy for me to climb all over the machine to find any badges or info, but I'm not at all sure of the work he's done, things he's removed or repaired, parts he has laying around, etc...
