Saved 2 late model D47U’s from the path of development

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Nice save! Both look like nice machines.

Fantastic job Conner! (cr). Always happy to know someone cared enough to save them, rather than who knows what could have happened to them. Does that place open to the public? You mentioned them from time to time, but some of us not familiar with them. Thanks for sharing. JM

Thanks for sharing the pictures and story line. Limb lifter on the top-seat, and radiator cap guard. Exhaust Pipe would have been a limb catcher for sure. I do not recall operating a machine that had much more than stack clearing the hood or directly to the side - LOUD! Working orchards with trees laden with the fruits/nuts was always a balancing act, watching for the limbs just waiting to take the inattentive off the seat! cts

Good save CR. Hopefully someone saves the D6 as well. Even that hoarder up by Yuba City would be much better than a boat to China.

CR -- I agree 100% - that is what the people that worked them found as the best solution to the issues at hand.

Ray54 -- I wonder how many are hiding down in your area - maybe more than can be easily found under one roof? JM is just one busy fellow that draws the envy of many, but he is known for working very hard for the Club and local Chapter. Me - my days are past from being able to house those old workhorses, glad we have those willing and able to share with all of us. Thank you for sharing your "adventures" on sidehill farming, never a dull moment. I think of the old pull discs with nothing but a rope to trip the pin to allow one to open or close the disc, that would have been another adventure in that steep country. cts

CR - those track plates (pads) on the Twenty-Two are either very narrow or the pictures are deceiving? Looks to be wide gauge from spacing of the tracks? Nice Lineup of machines. Thanks for posting and sharing the pictures with all of us. cts

Well the key board is not the place to try to be snarky. So I will apologize to any including Gee if I have ruffled any feathers.

(Wink, wink ) I think I could be good friends with Gee if time and distance did not get in the way.

Another deficiency of this board no emojis. I have been able to import generic ones. And then the next time it took a lot to find them ..............................so I do without mostly.

Ctsnowfighter Once you use a drag disc with hydraulic control of angle YOU NEVER WANT TO GO BACK. So go back to were we talked Dyer tillage equipment. My not so smooth of engineering is on display. It has worked for close to 50 years. But then again it has not been used but to clean up small areas. I could go way off track, so I will stop.

Again CR sorry for taking the discussion away from your good work on getting things saved.

Those are factory radiator cap guards on those John Deere's, came standard on orchard models, was an option on the others.