new to me d4

It's a shame the trucking bozo's buggered up the brackets. Looks to be mostly all there but probably tuckered. I agree, price was right, don't think your going to get bit there.

Good buy mate. There are running examples of those over here in Australia that they are asking still $20k for. I must say your taking the whole broken parts predicament well. Good luck with the restore, have fun with it. Cheers

I'd say you did well on the price looks to be something to play with for quite awhile.

Wow, what a steal! You couldn't buy a couple of used track rollers for a 7U D4 here for $500.
What a bunch of clowns those truckers were. I'd be going ballistic over that damage and sending them the bill for replacement parts. They're supposed to be professionals, aren't they?

Sounds something like my last exercise. I bought an excellent condition, 1970's-era, decent size, Hercus lathe at online auction in the next state.
I sent 3 pages of instructions to the auction company on how to lift it and transport it to the trucking depot for shipping to me.

They employed a "professional" crane company to lift the lathe. The crane company promptly dropped the lathe as soon it was at truck height off the floor, and smashed the lathe to pieces.
The auction company sent me a 3 line email, effectively saying, "Sorry, we've buggered up your lathe, here's your money back."

I went ballistic on them, and I must admit I got rather abusive over their total incompetence and lack of duty of care - and how I wanted some compensation over my losses incurred in the amount of effort I'd expended in buying, organising transport, issuing instructions, etc - and they just came back and referred me to their T&C's where they take no responsibility for anything, and basically couldn't give a damn about any losses to me.
I've still got steam coming out of my ears just thinking about the total screw-up, and the utter incompetence of people who claim to be professional.
I've spent 9 mths looking for a good lathe this size and they are so hard to find in good condition.

I know the feeling, that's why the maintenance/engineering plants I managed bought there own transport rigs, cranes and rigging, and trained our own crews. Could not afford downtime due to a bunch of clowns.
Rail systems were another story, sometimes even worse.

well i'd be pretty pissed off but the damage was done before i bought the machine , and it doesn't look like to big of a deal to fix it. It can really piss a guy off though when you give someone a simple job and they go and screw it up.

Well the seat looks to be in good condition. No really. Looks like a lot of fun and I bet you get it mobile without too much effort. Yeh just recently I paid $28000 for a later model d4d but it was in pretty good nick with tree pusher, rippers and stick rake. That rake you bought as well looks pretty handy.
Ken

So we brought it home yesterday , towed it off the lowbed, threw it in gear and pulled it down the driveway and the clutch broke loose , then we pull started it and backed it in to the shed. Needless to say I'm very happy because we didn't expect to get it running that easy

get the water out of the main engine oil b4 starting again. in ur climate i'm sure theres a couple quarts. problem is ull have to let it sit a couple months b4 it'll collect at the drain plug. good luck.