Bill Glenns Classic Plant

Hey TC
Were you tearing apart that dozer scavenging for parts or are you trying to put it back together into something usable based upon someone else taking it apart and giving up. 😛

Bill I had my son post up the pics while I was at work on a site just off J-4 of the M5 motorway, sadly he has not put all the pic's up, the D6-High Drive is without doubt the biggest wreck of a blade I have ever seen, all it needed was an engine repair (in frame), the Co's own fitters thought (I don't know why????) to remove the cabin , the transmission,all sorts of hydraulic parts, split one track, also swap the engine with one more Knackerd than the original, then strip both engines and the transmission,then throw all the bits in the Sh*t , then ask me to put it back together for them !!!! I still cannot quite get my head around the damage they have done,
the other pic's are of a D8H 68A F/drive, A Komatsu D65-12 F/drive, and a 963B shovel that I fitted a new under-cart to also refurbished the drive hubs,
I have said yes to the job of re-building the little D6H LGP as I like a bit of sport, If I don't take on the job it will probably end up as scrap, the running gear is first class "WHAT A MESS"
blowing it on tctractors

Hey TC,
I have some extra parts that I don't need from lots of different things. How about if I send them over, you can throw them on the ground and then see if you can find a place for them. The inside of the transmission/final drive case looks like there'd be lots of room to put some extra thingees.😉

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Theres no point in sending the extra bits over as TC prefers to leave a few bits out when hes rebuilding rather than adding bits on!!!!

Neil

Just think. .all the extra bits'n' pieces that are left over can be used to someday build a Catamatsu D6.7.8.9😮

Whatever poundage your earning on that job isn't enough, always amazed at your field repairs.😮

It is nothing short of amazing how much you can get done outside in the weather,no matter what it happens to be like at the moment.I often wonder how much discipline it takes to be sure that all of your tools make it back into your storage area at the end of the day.I hold my own tools to be precious and occasionally one gets away.I will confess at my age that I might just have forgotten where I "stored" them as I have discovered them while looking for something else and tried to remember how they got there.I don't "loan" my tools to anybody but I will confess to buying extras of dubious quality that I wouldn't miss if they didn't come back and those are the ones that get loaned if I am hard pressed to do otherwise.Great pics!!!Ron G

Ron you living in Ct. you know what winters are the same as me here in NE Pa. & years ago at the dealer we had to go out in "0" weather & work on that cold iron & sure wasn,t any fun & the road servicemen do yet. We had some fuel oil heaters we,d fire up (salamanders) to help but you weren,t most the time near it to enjoy the heat. They now have cranes on the bigger service trucks they all have now which sure helps lifting big assemblies now where we had to rig up something to lift with or get the customer to bring a loader or whatever to lift things for us.It sure is a whole new world out there today for service men & can envy them.

on the subject of 68A's,what happens if you forgot to fit the keeper plate on the imput shaft of the transmission?.I noticed it missing whilst fitting winch propshaft.That was 90 machine hours ago.I don't suppose it can go anywhere and I don't fancy pulling the drive coupling one night.
Neil D,is your D9G one of A+A's old tractors? nice looking tractor.