|
Faunsdale, AL | CAT tractors had some SERIOUS capacity "inflation" over the last 50 or 60 years! So an old D6 winds up being the size of a modern D5 which can be power shift or even hydrostat, so a lot more productive (and expensive!) machine. Old D8 is smaller than a modern D7. D6's these days are about like a D7 from the 50's
There's a lot of OLD CAT tractors still out there and an amazing amount of stuff available for them too. We are running a D6-9U from the 50's and a D7E 48A from the 60's. There's more than a hundred HP difference between those two, so one takes out the trees and the other runs the root rake and piles.
Remember, a crawler tractor is a lot like a big older farm tractor......................The condition of the undercarriage determines a large part of the value of the machine. If you don't know what you're looking at, take someone with you that does when you go looking at machines. And ALWAYS look at both sides of a tractor. I bought one for parts once that one track was buried in a briar patch. Guess what that track looked like! | |
|
dozers
