If someone takes it and has to load it and the tracks will not turn. Jack up the tracks and put two planks under them with small (I use 1" heavy wall black pipe) rollers between them and it will roll quite easily. Still a lot of work, but then so is scraping it. Not hardly worth the acetalene and oxygen to cut it up and then one still has the loading and hauling to the scrap yard. I believe the machine has the rain hole in the manifold bottom but there is a great chance that it is rusted shut and the motor is stuck tight. Always worth checking though.

As Roger said use planks and pipe rollers to move heavy objects

I had the exact same situation with a D8 15a back in 2007. We used an excavator to work the machine back and forth to free up the tracks. We backed off the brake adjustment so that the brakes were not fighting us.
The excavator operator pulled on the top of the tracks using the grousers as an edge to grab and kept at it, back and forth, until the tracks were free. We chained up the blade and used the excavator to work the machine up on the trailer. We did not damage or break anything in the process. We just took our time and got it done.

That machine looks to have good potential. If it was near me, I would, at the least, go on a survey trip to check it out to assess the situation. Looks to be a diamond in the rough.

"chuckb" wrote:

it is kinda of optimistic to believe that big cat motor is not stuck rusted tight or whatever if that stack has been open for a while in the midwest climate with all the rain and snow we have had in places the past few years the recovery is going to be a major undertaking that being said you dont get something for nothing there are resources available if the man is going to scrap it it is at great effort to him or the scrapper it would be nice if the parts could be saved or the entire unit these are great machines i have more than enough on my plate to even attempt this it will require some permits and a heavy duty wrecker of some type probably two trucks so the dollatrs addup rather quickly my first recovery was a dead ps30 that turned into an expensive project even to get it home only 35 miles away and i still have not learned my lesson yet but i am going to be very selective on what i go after good luck to anyone willing to tackle this chuck

Sorry Chuck
I didn,t see the exhaust uncovered part, ( Mini ipad, & need new glasses) and with nice under carriage it might be tough to brake it free!

Hey Ken last sentence above pics refers to "no can" over exhaust trust me i agree on what you said about GLASSES i had to go back and re read after your post:eyebrows:: i am never very sure about anything after dealing with lawyers over my brother's affairs thanks

Maybe someone near by should atleast go and have a look ?? shame if a tidy looking tractor gets cut up

Great to see someone purchased the ol' girl!

Could use a cylinder head and the entire pony motor/gear box off it. Sending off a email to the OP.

Darn waited too long...

Look at the bottom of the first post. Has now been edited to state that it is SOLD

Hope it went to a good home. Hopefully the new owner will post pictures and story of the retrieval and resurrection.