Pictures
And
many thanks to QuikTrax for looking at the pictures pre-purchase!!
Here is the dozer I bought - there are bunches of pictures, so ya'll can have a look-see. (I think the link is public and not restricted to my account.)
I wanted rippers, but came to the conclusion finding a nice machine with in my price range wasn't going to happen. I wasn't thrilled with the 24" tracks (wanted 18"), but after chatting with the Komatsu shop in San Antonio, I felt much better after he said most ranchers with the LGP growsers simply cut them down to size. He said the
only difference between the D39E-1 and the D39P-1 was strictly the width of the pads.
The service guy spoke highly of the model and said it's easy to work on and nothing fancy about the machine (it's an old International model basically.)
I was a little concerned the dozer had a fairly new paint job - the Komatsu guy said they have seen dozers come in that were buckets of rust (he mentioned Florida in particular) and to look closely at the U/C for rust. From what I could tell, the U/C doesn't look like it was a pile of rust. Bolt heads and nuts seemed to have nice flat sides. I must have stared at those pictures for hours :bash over a few day period.
I have transportation set up and the wire xfer should happen tomorrow. :usa IronPlanet seems to really have their stuff together, when you call on the phone you get to talk to somebody almost right away
and you can understand them!
Thanks to everybody for answering lots of questions and being patient with this dozer newbie.
John
