clearing land

[Bison]

I found a 77 komatsu D75S-3 track loader crawler(size of a D7 cat) with a 3 yard bucket with a heavy grapple but don't know a thing about these things,.. what bad to watch out for when i go look at it?. It has powershift transmission ,weighs 48.000 lb and can lift 30.000 lb with the loader and seems to have enough grunt with 200 hp
I wonder how these machines would perform pushing and piling trees, i would almost say they would be more versatile than a straight dozer.
I know one of you advised to stick with cat but this thing is decent priced at 15 grand and only 300 ml away

What say you?

 

[rustyshakelford]

I'm not familiar with that machine. Check out

Heavy Equipment Forums and ask your question there. There is a great bunch of very knowledgable guys over there.

Brett

 

[EddieWalker]

Never had or ran anything Komatsu, but I see a lot of them around. The most important thing about any machine is being able to get parts for it. Is there a dealer close to you? Are they helpful? Do parts still exist for it?

Eddie

 

[ShearHeadMS]

The kamatsu should be fine, and it should handle anything you want. Main thing is how is the tracks!?

 

[Bison]

The kamatsu should be fine, and it should handle anything you want. Main thing is how is the tracks!?

Found out this morning,...Only 30% left

 

[ShearHeadMS]

Don't even look at it agai! Save yourself the heartache!

 

[redprospector]

30% left means that the tracks will be off 70% of the time.

Andy

 

[redprospector]

Woops, double post.

Andy

 

[Todd727]

30% could be years of service depending on what you are planning on using it for.

 

[ShearHeadMS]

Todd has a point, I'm so use to throwing newer tracks on everything I have I forgot how to keep a poor mans dozer running. Check the rollers and pins on this dozer, if one side is wore down flat, just have them turned. The bottom rollers need to still have flanges on them so the rails won't rub on the track guards. Check your sprockets too, if you can near about cut a cigar on the tip them its time for new ones.