tomlad
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Powershift or direct drive, personally i would always go for a direct drive dozer with machine this age, easier and cheaper to repair, earlier in the year i bought a massey ferguson 3366 dozer for scrap value, it ran good when cold but after 5minutes it would not want to move, after removing some parts on the torque converter it was found that the piston in the hydraulic reverser control valve was sticking due to some iron filings, works fine now.
Anything more serious like torque converter removal and it would have not got repaired. No new or secondhand parts available for this model anywhere.
Running gear is the main thing to look at i would say, i wouldnt buy anything with bad running gear due to cost to replace, everything else is usually repairable.
Pull the floor plates and check for oil leaks when steering either way.
Im sure other people have more input.
It's direct drive, 6000 hours, lgp I thought poweshift would be more desirable?
reading here about crawlers and wartime has given me an idea another novel
Was he doing agricultural work, or airfield construction ?Pity my dad is not still around he could have told you a lot about ripping up Lincolnshire with a crawler for war ag.
Was he doing agricultural work, or airfield construction ?
depends if you got a lot of fwd/reverse work....the novelty of shifting two levers (or 3 if you want to go backwards faster) wears thin after a while compared to slipping the powershift lever around the corner.......and a decelerator makes it so much smoother to change direction.
Direct drive can generally be better better for long hauls or for Ag work (5 or 6 forward gears compared to 3) which could overheat the torque converter if it was lugging away for miles in 2nd gear.
LGP will be harder on the tracks with all the flex put on the pads and chains and will rip the grass up hellish when you turn it around - but they're great for the intended application
Thanks for the info much appreciated [emoji106]
Do you have any idea what weight it'll be? And a bit idea price I should be paying, very tidy, good undercarriage
Not as bare as mine! might start getting it back together one day when I stop finding bits that need replacingView attachment 734408 View attachment 734412
Shes looking a bit bare now, front casting and radiator was a pig to get off on my own.
Pity my dad is not still around he could have told you a lot about ripping up Lincolnshire with a crawler for war ag.
Now that does look like a lot of workNot as bare as mine! might start getting it back together one day when I stop finding bits that need replacing
there is a 2 furrow Massey Harris wartime plough on a farm not too far away which I am going to collect sometime along with a 6D engine from a Claays combine, but the plough will need some attention as it has been stood outside for over 50 years, it is quite long and is not heavy made , it does look as if it will bend easyI managed to rescue an old war ag plough from the scrapman a couple of years back. A single furrow Massey Harris prairie buster. 24" wide and deep. My father said that the war ag used to plough up scrubland with them, burying gorse, bracken the lot. Big knife coulter attached down from the frame to the point, and a set of chains used as a skimmer to drag the brush down into the deep furrow. I did actually use it in anger this year behind the VF, ran around a couple of fields reclaiming conservation margins that had started to creep into the field where min till isn't aggressive enough. Once it had shone up it did a fantastic job, the open furrow was a bit savage though; but at least the edge of the field is now well defined!