If the thing is sound and holds up, great but on the down side it could get expensive as we well know. I'm sure the cost of a new under carriage is close to the asking price but shop time on those easily runs $250-300 per hr. My concern about the machine with those high hours wasn't the condition of the tracks but more the trans and finals. Yes I remember that project as it is only a short distance from here. If that D9 has new tracks and I can negotiate a good price, it may pencil out. Pushing stone on sand will chew up dozer tracks like nothing else. That happened so many times he lost count of how many dozers it took to finish the job. Off it would go and another new D11 would replace it. A buddy of mine worked that project and he said they would deliver a brand new D11 to move that stone and in just a matter of weeks it would be a wreck from driving over those rocks. For months they poured concrete over it, hauled in fill, and topped it off with a 25 ft thick layer of white rocks about the size of bowling balls.

After 9/11 the government realized that stuff could used in a dirty weapon a massive burial project was undertaken. you could actually hike in and check the place out. After the war The processing machinery was encapsulated in what looked like roofing foam and then sat abandoned for decades. Underneath it is a uranium processing site that was used in the Manhattan atomic weapons program during WWII. If your ever passing thru St Louis, MO and you look out to the Southwest you may see what looks like a small white mountain. Post added at 02:17 AM - Previous post was at 01:33 AM. The dealer had a new/used rental 580L with 400 hrs for $107,000. I thought the 580 was to small for the job. With the buyers auction premium and the sale tax it would be closer to $35,000 said and done. In calculating out our highest bid we estimated an additional $1800 in possible repairs after consulting with the local Case dealer. But, it was close by and didn't require special permits to transport. It had milky transmission fluid and was reported to be turning slowly. We bid on a mid 90's Case 580 G with 5600 hrs a couple of weeks ago. I sold the D8 fifteen years ago so I am that far out of the loop concerning the market and hauling rates ect. Would the load require a pilot car? Maybe. Its almost all desert four lane and freeway to the job so no particularly narrow or low weight limit bridges. If the blade has to come off it may be able to go on a conventional lowboy at a more competitive price. If I bought it I would probably pull the ripper off right there In CA and send it directly to an auction or even directly to the scrap. That's purchase price, taxes, and shipping included. Its guaranteed to rain so the work will be ongoing for years and can be over a large scale, depending. And how good a set of tracks we start out the job with. How long that is depends on Mother Nature and how much rain fall we get. that's just the way it is when you use a dozer in the environment. Ultimately the terrain will grind the tracks off and it will suffer the same fate as the D8. Whatever dozer we get will never leave that ranch alive. Whoever has this dozer has done exactly what I was unwilling to do the D8 to keep using it. It was the tracks and the under carriage that spelled its doom not total time. For all I know that old dozer could have had 100,000 hrs on it. The old engine and even the pony engine ran great to the day I traded it off. We used that old cable operated Cat in that rock and stone until the sprockets and tracks were completely worn out to the point they were in danger of falling off. The job involves heavy rock and stone movement, the same work, same place I used the D8 for. Buy a smaller newer machine and cost yourself down time, job takes lots longer to do and isn't done as well and you could work it death and you start right back to where you started from in just a few years. Newer machines of the same size with lower hours cost mucho more dinero, mucho. IF what the seller claims is true, then its a whole lot more machine for the money. That's absolutely right and exactly why this machine caught my attention.

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