Goodbye 'dozer, CK30 does it all now.

[RexB]

I coulda' used that bigger machine more than a few times Highbeam, nice.

Past & Future Crawler Drivers! Here's three generations (the long-haired one is getting warmed up for his first drive.)


42HP JD350_

. . . But like Rex, my Kioti will replace the need in the long run.

You backing off of selling it again?? ROTFLMAO

it's like cutting off a hand or something

It didn't have a cupholder though :~)

 

[Highbeam]

I added a cupholder to my little dozer and let me tell you from experience that it doesn't work out. Your bubbly beverage will be without bubbles after the first minute of dozing.

That little girl's first operating experience of any vehicle was pulling levers with dad on the dozer. She's now almost six and tells me how to get a full bucket on the Kioti, not driving by herself of course but a good lap driver.

The JD350 and the international 500 were almost the same size of 10,000 lbs or so. 30-35 HP. I didn't have a winch but I did have hydraulic rippers on the back. I could lift the nose of the machine with the blade and lift the tail with the ripper bar to allow for emergency rescue methods such as shoving logs under the tracks to gain height.

You haven't lived until you've set a dozer down on the belly pan in the mud.

 

[RexB]

Yeah carbonated drinks foam out, what's left is flat, doesn't work.

I don't know about your Intl' 500, my 1966 JD350 has 42HP per the shop manual, Yesterday's Tractors and Deere site. Where are you seeing 30-35hp for the JD350?

http://www.deere.com/en_US/cfd/cons...n_current_pdfs/noncurrent_dozers/350w6300.pdf

"You haven't lived" until the wiring is ripped out from the bottom in brush and trees so thick that ya' have to sickle a clear spot just to make room to get down and crawl under it, sucking in your chest to get clearance under that l'il beast then trying to see and move your arms enough to rewire it. LOL, crawler stories are great.

 

[ultrarunner]

I should sell my D3... but it is so handy to have around for the 20 hours I use it every year...

Thought about selling it and the BX and getting a much bigger Backhoe... but my nieces are too attached to the CAT... it's the first thing they want to see every visit...

 

[RexB]

A D3, that's a honey too. 20 hours still gets a lot of work done that a 'dozer can do best.

I'm starting to go into seperation-withdrawal.
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Don't sell it Joel!

 

[JoelD]

Hmmm., I'm gonna tell the boss that Rex said NO.

Deputy, you go easy on me. I don't want to crack under the peer pressure.

Joel

 

[RexB]

Aaack! Now I'm in trouble with the missus!

I hear that Jack Daniels depth-charges make it easier to separate . . .

Or is that just to forget all about it?

 

[Highbeam]

From JoelD

"My 30 HP Kioti weighs all-in around 5000-6000 lbs, the dozer is just over double, also a 30 hp machine."

I caught the 30HP from Joel who also has a JD350. Perhaps the 42 HP makes the JD a bit snappier than my old IH. Hmmm.

I am glad that I sold the dozer. Its use was limited due to the small size and operator inexperience. I didn't get really good at it until the end of several hundred hours time. Maybe it was too small but I find that my little tractor can do almost everything that the dozer could do plus so much more.

 

[RexB]

Yes, and Joel can get a better price advertising the 42hp net (46 gross) it makes quite a difference over 30hp.

I forget what you were using the dozer for, but it was apparently different circumstances here ten years ago. I was clearing woods never before cleared, excepting a pick-and-choose cedar harvest about 80 years ago. Making a 1200ft trail into a road, cut and level a 400ft drive. Two acres, building sites. Couldn't afford a D4 or JD450 or bigger then. This 30hp CUT would still be working on it, or just break.

Fastforward to the present, now the more versatile CK30 TLB can take care of the maintenance like skidding trees when they fall, digging out the last of the stumps, filling and levelling a yard to make into a lawn, all those 101 things that we use them for.

Don't feel lonely, everybody takes 2-300 hours to get good on 'em. And I still love watching the 20-year experienced "old guys" working the machines, they're artists.

 

[JoelD]

I've used mine to grade my yard, rip out trees and rough in my motocross track and as posted, to move really big rocks. Oh yeh, and to pull my trailer and truck back up into my driveway after my hitch ripped off of my truck.

My Deere mechanic told me that the diesel motor in the 350 is one of if not the best motors deere has ever made. She runs brand new with 2500 hours.

Really like this machine, plenty strong for a home owner and still able to transport.

Joel