PaGlenn
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- New Milford Penna
Caught a few pics this old D7 Caterpillar when I went to pick up a camper from the owner.
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Bob Bancroft
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- Aurora NY
Looks like it might have had some track work not long before it was parked.
Lots of good ol' iron out there, still sitting in the woods.
Friend had a D8 that he left in his woods- didn't use it from one decade to the next. But it always started. His secret- after using it, shut down the main engine, then drain the gas tank for the billy goat (starting engine). Start the goat again, run it until it quits. Then remove spark plugs and squirt a little oil in, turn it over a few times, replace plugs. Ten years later, put fresh gas in, goat would start fine, and it would start the big diesel. He said the diesel would always start, if you could just get the goat motor going.
Friend had a D8 that he left in his woods- didn't use it from one decade to the next. But it always started. His secret- after using it, shut down the main engine, then drain the gas tank for the billy goat (starting engine). Start the goat again, run it until it quits. Then remove spark plugs and squirt a little oil in, turn it over a few times, replace plugs. Ten years later, put fresh gas in, goat would start fine, and it would start the big diesel. He said the diesel would always start, if you could just get the goat motor going.
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PaGlenn
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- New Milford Penna
Millville in Southern NJ
ShadetreeRet
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Seems a shame to park something that looks that good. Must have had bad innards. I once saw a bulldozer parked like that, sat there for at least 20 years until you couldn't see it for the trees growing around it. Don't know what ever happened to it, may still be there for all I know.
Ken Macfarlane
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Just looks like its parked for a winter? Why are folks saying its abandoned? Looks better than most old working dozers around here. Hoses haven't fallen off yet, seat cushion still in place.
could be
my neighbor has 2 Ford 801 series tractors, one with a backhoe-loader that sit outside, uncovered, in the weeds.
They look very, very, bad. Both run excellent. Been there the 35 years I've lived here.
uses the one to plow his garden once a year and uses the backhoe when needed....like 3-4 years between uses....
He gets approached constantly by scrappers who think they are abandoned junk.
(and has been asked by me, who knows they ain't junk, nope, he'll never sell)
Uncle has one like that. I bet it would still fire up if the main engine was not locked up. You just have to tow them to start them.
Years back the 300TLB rolled over and we tried to right it again. Tried pulling with a big 4 WD loader and no go not enough traction. Took the loader and pull started the D7 then used it to pull the TLB back over. That D7 had not ran for years prior to or after that.
Years back the 300TLB rolled over and we tried to right it again. Tried pulling with a big 4 WD loader and no go not enough traction. Took the loader and pull started the D7 then used it to pull the TLB back over. That D7 had not ran for years prior to or after that.
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