Winching On Another D2

Hey I feel for you I used a comealong to load my D2 I took the blade off first and it took me about 2.5+ to load mine with 3 grown men to run the comealong. I did get mine home Main froze and am now having the head redone. Good luck with yours.

I think it took closer to 3.5 hrs to come-a-long mine up onto the trailer because of the frozen brakes. Me and a small boy did it using grease on square tubing to slide the tracks.

No pics!😕

I hope I've done all the come-a-long recoveries of dead machinery I'll ever do😄

212 grader steep uphill onto gooseneck trailer over the ramps and dovetail, 2 men and strong boy, 2 come-a-longs and a winch. I couldn't find a dry stitch of clothes anywhere when we finally got it bound down and got up the hill to get out of that "holler". Picture looked like the grader was beside a road in the weeds, a LEVEL road! Man was I ever mistaken! I found out that the owner had never had it running, He had it delivered up on the county road that ran along the front of his property, and had someone shove him off rolling down the hill to try to crank it. When he got close to the bottom and was going to wind up in front of his shop door if he kept going, he stopped and put it up for sale! Lucky for me the decompression lever was pulled the whole time! 😄

D69U with blade onto lowboy up ramps and over the dovetail, 4 men and 3 pretty good hand winches (better than your usual come-a-long). I messed around and let the neighbor's running D6 get sold so we couldn't shove it on the trailer. I was really wishing for Swishy's wicked winch by the time it finally broke over the top of the dovetail onto the flat across the axles.

One thing I learned real quick after I got the old crawler bug was that winching dead iron usually happens more often that not.😊 The only crawler I've ever hauled home without having to winch on a trailer is my old 5J, all the others were in tough shape. This picture is my 5U7066 after we got it home. Didn't run, main spring broken, heavy blade to keep chained up, right side final drive broken and binding, rails worn out, and all the bottom rollers on the right side without flanges. We winched it on and off the trailer taking about 4 hours each direction. Every time it moved the right side track tried to come off the sprocket, it was more work keeping the track on than it was pulling the come along. My friends, I'm afraid there's no hope for us...😄 🙄

Done it again,
Ran off with the wrong camera.
Took 50 pic's,but when I went to post them they were wrong size.
O-well who wants to look at an old d2 anyway's!
COMPRESSOR

just use your photo editor to resize the pics--get the width under 800 pixels and it should post

Dependiz,I'll try the photo editor.
Here are a few pic's of the d2 I just got home with.
Certainly nothing fancy.5u13868

Nice grousers tho, can't believe we are do for a blizzard in the morning, have 62 degrees right now at 543pm and a blizzard warning starting at 6am Monday. Oh well, springtime in the rockies. LOL John