Re: JD 350b new owner

Posted by Sean on December 29, 2003 at 20:30:38 from (66.217.129.92):

In Reply to: JD 350b new owner posted by MrBill on December 29, 2003 at 20:04:08:

Bill, good luck with your new crawler. I guess you got yours off of ebay? I've seen a few of them lately with backhoes, they look like really versatile machines while still being small enough to tow (without a giant truck) and use around a tight jobsite.

I just bought my first crawler too, a 12 ton International 150 tracked loader (with 4-1 bucket). I drove it around for about 5 minutes and it was a BLAST. Kind of scary, as I had never driven a crawler before, but amazing to have all that power and mass at your fingertips. I can't wait to really sink my teeth into it and learn more about it, but at the same time the whole experience is kind of overwhelming...these things are expensive to own and operate, but they can do amazing things. Plus they can be extremely dangerous, but if you respect them and use them wisely they will serve you well.

Overall, I'm just psyched...hope you have good luck with your machine too. This is a good site for info, I've learned alot here. You might also want to checkout www.jdcrawlers.com they have lots of good info for your machine.

Best of luck with your machine!

Oh yeah one more thing, I was talking to a guy I work with today that used to be a farmer. He had a crawler way back in the day and was telling me a story about a guy that rode over a stump with a crawler...when the rear end pivoted over the stump it "slung-shot" him over the front and off the side of the machine. He was almost killed as the tractor just kept chugging along as he lay wounded on the ground dangerously close to the tracks.

Moral of story, be careful what you ride over and wear a seat belt (which is something I need to add to my machine).

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