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    Football to Cooler sized rocks

    What weight of dozer would be good for making/finishing/maintaining unfinished forest roads in ground infested with football to cooler sized rocks? 8+ foot wide roads would be adequate for the atv roads we want to make on the steep side of our mountain property. What type of blade is best when...
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    Serpentorn

    CAT0314E KZJT00258 with 4.4 Acert I am looking for some help with error codes and a part number for a 2012-3 314E LCR 5060 hrs. Please see attached images. Today, she overheated and billowing steam. A crack in the coolant reservoir. Repaired with JB Weld and refilled coolant. Started with a...
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    Killing the batteries slowly

    CAT0314E KZJT00258 Yesterday I was using the new to me excavator and got a low fuel warning, so travelled back to shop close by, turned it off and added 5 gallons of fuel. It would not restart and has continued to not restart, but it will turn over as I have been wearing out the batteries. It...
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    Large frame, high HP, No DEF

    Hi All, how many years back do I need to go to get a full sized CTL without DEF? For instance, was there a CAT 299 or a Kubota 97 without DEF. This is for a mountain ranch property and will get low hours for the rest of it's life. I want to know what years for each major brand that I should...
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    Dozer vs CTL

    We have 40 acres of steep mountain side land at 6000 feet which is 2 miles from the entrance to the giant sequoia trees national park. Logging in the Sequoia National Forest was severely limited in 1988, so we have several old landings and logging roads overgrown with trees. I'm having a grand...
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    Travel lockout?

    I have a 2014 CAT 314E # ZJT00258 and I want to know if it is possible to add a switch to allow/disallow use of the final drives when the hydraulics are engaged. Two reasons. Theft prevention and I have to move into some very tight spots near structures and large trees on slopes and near steep...
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    Bucket teeth for grading/ditching

    I have a CAT 314E LCR with a 4' CAT bucket (1200 mm). Bucket has inset metal plate partially remaining showing MFH54322 and CAT in upper right corner. There are 7 digging teeth with side pins. My ask is if it is possible to exchange teeth to very wide spade-like teeth that would almost touch...
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    Finding a Used Ripper

    I have a 2014 Cat 314e lcr with oem quick coupler and a 4 foot bucket with 65 mm pins. I would like to get a ripper, preferably used CAT rather than new or Chinese. It will be used for stump pulling rather than rock or frost. I cannot find a cat part number for this which a distant cat dealers...
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    What choices would make me happy for 10 years?

    Thank you for all your help in my research for an excavator for a large alpine mountain private parcel surrounded by the Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Wilderness. We are 10 miles from the National Park that has the giant redwood trees. It is on the steep side of a mountain, and covered with...
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    Thumb tines end to end to the bucket teeth okay?

    I am looking at two 16 ton machines with progressive link thumbs for forestry, making and improving roads in a mountainside, removing stumps and brush/trees One machine has a thumb where the tines do not fit between the teeth of the bucket like the other machine. Rather, half of the tines hit...
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    To DEF or not to DEF

    I am going to look at 2 different machines for sale on the internet. A 2015 Cat 314E LCR with 4900 hours and no DEF and a 2018 Volvo ECR145EL with DEF and 2300 hours. Both have a progressive link thumb, quick coupler, auxiliary hydraulics and include a digging bucket. The Cat is owned by a...
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    Another Chinese excavator thread

    We have a mountainous parcel about an hour from home and will need an excavator about 1-200 hours a year for improvements and maintenance. This is a hobby as my job is all computer related. My research led to probably getting a used Cat 308. A local CAT dealer has a 2018 308 with 3500 hours for...
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    Climbing power needed

    Is there any relationship between weight class and ability to climb slopes? I see videos where operators use the hoe to help climb a mound so final drives seem a weak spot. Do smaller or larger machines climb better or essentially the same? We have a 760 ft increase in altitude on the side of...
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    Bad wish list?

    Which excavator options would you give up first, as there are very few machines on the internet that meet all of my wish list? My property is 40 acres of forest on the side of a lower Sierra Nevada mountain with about an acre of pretty level land for a cabin and family gathering place...
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    Illegal dump trailer?

    I have a diesel ram 2500 pickup that can tow 20k, a 10k cat 299d2 on mountain property 50 miles from my home, a 2 acre property next door to my home we just bought that needs work, and a nephew who drives tractor trailers for a regional trucking company. It costs me $600 each way to move the ctl...
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    Add FOPS cage?

    How safe are excavator rops cabs from falling/penetrating objects? We have purchased a mountain forest 40 acre lot which has overgrown logging roads and flat areas I want to clear and improve with an excavator. Pulling stumps from the larger trees we chainsaw, pushing over trees up to about a...
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    How many hours left in this sprocket?

    This is from a 2013 CAT 320 with 5500 hours at a price of $65k, a little over my budget. All the other 35 pictures look good enough to examine the machine and negotiate. I only need about a hundred hours a year, so can this last a while? More importantly, does this gear's wear and a worn out...
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    Improving a switchback

    I have a steep switchback of about 35% slope and getting up it in a 4x4 is hard during wet season. Worse for my neighbor who has to keep climbing the hill. I want to widen the shelf logging road so I can bring travel trailers up to a landing flat area, but this switchback is steep enough to...
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    Buying an older excavator

    Hi All, I am starting to research buying an older 30k lbs.ish excavator to improve a forested lot we have purchased. 1 acre combined of flat areas and 39 acres of steep hillside with 12"-36" trees for camping, shooting, and raising grandkids. It has overgrown logging roads throughout. Me, I'm a...
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