CASE CRAWLER

DUKEOFCOMAL · Dec 4, 2014

looking TO PURCHASE A 550G CASE CRAWLER,WITH 6 WAY BLADE,NO OTHER ATTACHMENTS.
I AM Not Familiar With The Case Product.
Would Appreciate Some Feed Back-Pros & cons.
Year Model is 1998.
APPEARS To Be In Good Condition.
I Am Sure There Are A Lot Of Experienced Owners.
Thanks In Advance For Your Response.

PJH · Dec 4, 2014

Hi Duke - copy and paste your message on the crawler forum - lots of good guys over there.
Crawler forum

greg oliver · Dec 4, 2014

In 1999 my boss bought a new 550G it has about 4500 hours on it and we put all new sprockets ,idlers, rollers ,chain and pads. We had to rebuild grease tensioners and he decided to go all new undercarriage. The blade is a little loose but overall it has been trouble free. You can steer them with your left hand you just push left or right lever forward or back some call them jerk a matics but I have pushed a lot of dirt with that little 550. He bought a new 650K its a lot smoother to operate but that 550 will still be going when the 650 dies because of electrical issues. Just my .02 cents, Greg

Case Nutty 1660 · Dec 4, 2014

I had one we used in the oilfield here when I was doing dirt work, great machine, it had rubber tracks which for soft ground we worked a lot in I really liked it, if I bought another it would have steel tracks as I felt the rubber ones did not last like they should have, the dozer was a pushing, very nimble dozer, plenty of power, when shifting tracks from low to high back out of the power as you shift, with a bit of practice you can shift smoothly, these also have the ability to maintain power to both tracks in turns, another fact I love about CASE crawlers of this type, I have a 450 now I use on my farm, the shots are from a job I used the RT 550E on
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NCWayne · Dec 5, 2014

I've worked on a few Case machines for my customers. Overall they seem to be well made machines, and other than the standard wear issues I've seen nothing major wrong with any of them.
In many cases they run Case/Cummins engines, which is nothing but a Cummins with the Case brand on it. The only problem there is that Case knows very little about the engines, and Cummins knows nothing that they can tell because of their deal with Case. I say that, because I've been there, and done that already with a 6 cylinder, about a year ago.

Beyond that, look at availability of parts locally. For quite a few years we didn't have a local dealership to offer any kind of service support for Case, although we did have a dealership for another brand that had some sort of distribution deal and carried parts, but that's all they did.

The main thing I have seen on Case crawlers that I didn't like was that they had an foot operated accelerator for the throttle as opposed to a decelerator like most other brands. This can put many operators on a learning curve to get used to it, but in the end it's just an inconvenience more than anything else.

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