ianoz Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 This is our trackloaders . A fiat Allis FD5 . And a Cat 939 that we replaced the FL5 with . Mainly used to level house sites . Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-91899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 What is that extra piece on the 939? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-91913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 What is that extra piece on the 939?It looks like a GPS setup for running grade. They are quite popular but don't think I've seen one on a dozer that small before. Lot of D6 and above sized tractors around here run them. The set interfaces into the machine hydraulics and will run grade within about 1/8th inch if monitored during the push/cut.Rob Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-91914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 That was my first thought. But it looks like a heavy piece of iron for that task. And no wires coming out of it. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-91915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianoz Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Yes Rob has it worked out . Unfortunately it does not work , The machine has plenty of power , but to see what your doing with it is dificult to say the least . Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-91966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalContCo Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 International Harvester used by our company exclusively from early '50's to mid 70's including TD14A, TD15, 175 and 250 series. Attached are a few photos. Enjoy.Mike 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-100515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
randyp Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Great pics buddy! randyp Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-100552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggerpro Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Personally I prefer the 977L to any of them. I have a 953 and a 955L but none of them push like the 77- or lift as much The hydrostats are nice and agile but in a hard push it's hard to beat the pwer shifts of yesterday Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-104777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivetroad Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Personally I prefer the 977L to any of them. I have a 953 and a 955L but none of them push like the 77- or lift as much The hydrostats are nice and agile but in a hard push it's hard to beat the pwer shifts of yesterdayThat is the truth - We had a 977K years ago and that thing pushing trees and rolling out root balls would out grunt a newer hydrostat. I also had a 951C that was awfully handy if you had to haul it around and a little 931B with a rear backhoe I used to build my house and shop. I like the hydrostats, but if you are buying a cheap old farm loader, I like the powershifts. We sold the 977K and bought a D8K -77V. That was a great machine with the perfect balance of weight and horsepower. We sold it to a company in Texas that was buying all of them they could find to install a sideboom on and ship it to Russia for some big pipeline job a few years ago. That poor thing went from lightly working 300 hours a year on a Missouri farm pushing fencerows to working three shifts a day in subzero weather and having to also learn the Cyrillic alphabet! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-104792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 977L love the sound of this machine. My friend with the the Allis scraper has this. Purchased it new and still works in the wood with it. What years were the L series made? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 I always liked the International 250 loader with tthe 4 in one bucket, the first time i drove one I was about 15 years old, my uncle Frank sent me up to the top of the bank and it bring it down to the front. Well about a 1/2 a mile walk to the machine, and I could not for the life of me find the freakin starter button!! I went all the way back down the ramp to find out that it was right next to my leg!! I mean come on who the hell would a thought!!! I did like the machine though and you don't see to many of them, you see a lot of 175's but not 250'sBULLHUSK PS we did have an older Cat loader that looked like an old 977(pony start and clutch driven) I'm thinkin we called it a 20-A ? does that sound right? It was a very good old track loader that you couldn't KILL!! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 977L love the sound of this machine. My friend with the the Allis scraper has this. Purchased it new and still works in the wood with it. What years were the L series made?You best be careful talking about scrapers and showing pictures of dirty dozers in the same sentence. Gonna make randyp pop a hard on an look to come visit you.Rob Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 You best be careful talking about scrapers and showing pictures of dirty dozers in the same sentence. Gonna make randyp pop a hard on an look to come visit you.RobWell if size is any indication, then here is my 440 putt putt....Wouldn't want to scare ole randyp! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Well if size is any indication, then here is my 440 putt putt....Wouldn't want to scare ole randyp!I ran one of those a couple of times and I'm thinking it is the same tractor. Two cylinder diesel?Rob Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Real man type of track loader................Lakeside sand and gravel puts on a show every spring. They have refurbished a bunch of equipment and make smoke and noise all day with them. Near a dozen shovels, nother dozen dozers and some cool dirt haulers too. 1 Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 I ran one of those a couple of times and I'm thinking it is the same tractor. Two cylinder diesel?RobYes, two cylinder but not a JD. 253 Detroit and a lot of fun if your spreading top soil. Here's one for you Larry. Marion steam shovel, would be a two man operation. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivetroad Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 All you need is one MIke Mulligan!Just make sure he does not forget to leave an exit ramp when he finishes your basement. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 All you need is one MIke Mulligan!Just make sure he does not forget to leave an exit ramp when he finishes your basement.My favorite book as a young lad. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Wow...that brings back some childhood memories!!! Isn't that the one where they turn the shovel into a furnace after he dug himself into the hole??I've always wanted to run something like that(at least once). Sure does take some finesse to make them run smoothly. About 5 yrs ago I was at a show with some equipment running. I watched this 70+yr old fellow with some disabilities whip this drag line around like it was own arms. I was amazed has he limped off with a bad leg and one out of shape arm!!! I'm thinking he had run that shovel many, many years.Maybe 20yrs ago, a guy I just met through a car club worked at his dads paving company. He invited me over to play with the Deere Extendahoe(we talked and I mentioned I've never ran anything like that before). In no time flat I had a 10ft hole dug!! LOL!! I was in second heaven. Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 977L love the sound of this machine. My friend with the the Allis scraper has this. Purchased it new and still works in the wood with it. What years were the L series made?Tim, I have a 1990 Cat Handbook that shows 1978 to 1982. Weight 48010#. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivetroad Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 There still are a lot of them around here for only being made 5 years Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Thanks David,I could probably pick this one up but I've been told parts are pretty expensive. I was told by the old timers that ran track loaders, they did everything before excavators came along. Could you imagine digging out cellar holes with one all day? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Thanks David,I could probably pick this one up but I've been told parts are pretty expensive. I was told by the old timers that ran track loaders, they did everything before excavators came along. Could you imagine digging out cellar holes with one all day?A local house mover and heaving rigging outfit here does just that with a 410B and C John Deere. They are now moving to large frame tracked skid steer loaders as they are much faster.Rob Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivetroad Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Thanks David,I could probably pick this one up but I've been told parts are pretty expensive. I was told by the old timers that ran track loaders, they did everything before excavators came along. Could you imagine digging out cellar holes with one all day?Missouri has about the highest concentration of track loaders in use for just that purpose. If you talk to a auction yard guy or a Cat salesman they will tell you the same thing. I don't know why that is, but that is how most basements are dug around here. Note I said basement and not cellar. A cellar around here is a place you keep your homemade wine, sometimes hidden under a shed/barn. A basement in the large excavated area under your house. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Missouri has about the highest concentration of track loaders in use for just that purpose. If you talk to a auction yard guy or a Cat salesman they will tell you the same thing. I don't know why that is, but that is how most basements are dug around here. Note I said basement and not cellar. A cellar around here is a place you keep your homemade wine, sometimes hidden under a shed/barn. A basement in the large excavated area under your house.My understanding also.Rob Quote Plodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/8134-whats-your-favorite-type-of-track-loader/page/2/#findComment-107540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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