Have a small contractor friend looking for a blade. So Cal preferably. 50s to 70s yr running.

"oldbeek" wrote:

Have a small contractor friend looking for a blade. So Cal preferably. 50s to 70s yr running.

Putman Auctioneers has a couple coming up for sale. JM

Thanks, that 112 looks good. Is it 37 minutes from you? Are you going there to look at anything? They don't list the hours on it or the 12. Wondering how much weare on it.

There's a Cat 12 for sale on craigs list in Brownsville, Oregon. They're asking $5000.00 doesn't say anything about condition.

"oldbeek" wrote:

Thanks, that 112 looks good. Is it 37 minutes from you? Are you going there to look at anything? They don't list the hours on it or the 12. Wondering how much weare on it.

Darn near impossible to find a 50s to 70s grader with out a lot of wear unless you stumble across that rare military machine that sat somewhere for most of its life. Fortunately they are still capable of doing a lot of work considering the wear.

Some of these small counties have them sitting in a snow shed. Only used in the winter. I had 11 ,99e #12s ran every one of them to 30,000 hrs. They sold at auctions for near what we paid for them. Auctioneer stressed how great our maintenance program was. Some we had changed the circle gears. All had their lift balls replaced but the transmission gears were completely shot. Rebuilt engines had 14,000 hrs on them. I got the taxpayers money worth out of those old machines. Current fleet management is selling 140Gs at 10,000 hrs. Hardly used.