Indeed - I know it got a good workout, cause even my legs were sore at the end of the day. It's really been running solid last couple hundred hours. We've got 330 hours on it now. That's all the good I'm going to say about it though, don't want to jinks anything, lol.
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My first track loader!
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Indeed - I know it got a good workout, cause even my legs were sore at the end of the day. It's really been running solid last couple hundred hours. We've got 330 hours on it now. That's all the good I'm going to say about it though, don't want to jinks anything, lol.
Living in the deep south, I can't say that I've ever had to deal with that geological process. How does that work? Ice forming below the debris eventually expanding pushing it up and out of the ground? I saw a video on youtube of a D9 in texas digging a mass burial hole for cattle that was way deeper than the machine. Pretty incredible.
jughead
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would love to work in dirt like that for a little while. cut my teeth "playing " in what seems to be ancient creek bed nothing but rock and a little sand. everything i do seems to require digging out rocks some of them huge. so big a pickup would struggle to haul. oh and the playing part is still true after 20 plus years still AINT an operator not sure if i qualify for a lever puller
We've been lucky on all of our holes considering the size rocks we have in such close proximity. There's one area that we can't get into to "play", er clean up because smack in the middle of a wet weather spring. We're too chicken to get it.
Same here. But I sure have fun trying.
DMiller
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My little farm is Loess soil on the hill tops/upper sides, works to broken rock slabs on the low sides to the creek which is sheet rock bottomed almost to the look of concrete it is so smooth. Slabs tend to be 6" to 2' thick and anywhere from 2 x4' to 6x10' pretty well all flint or a flint mix and do not break well. Got a few I intend to use for landscape if the old 7G will move them.
As to the deep soil it cuts relatively well for the first two to three feet then packs in tight, works the teeth on the loader pretty hard and breakout being degraded some from age gets a little dicey for pulling a full bucket load out. Have had luck using the 4/1 as a dozer to break through and then clam the spoil but takes longer than just digging in.
As to the deep soil it cuts relatively well for the first two to three feet then packs in tight, works the teeth on the loader pretty hard and breakout being degraded some from age gets a little dicey for pulling a full bucket load out. Have had luck using the 4/1 as a dozer to break through and then clam the spoil but takes longer than just digging in.
Boone,
I'm looking at a similar 175C. Curious if youve had any issues with finding parts, high wear items, etc? I know the DT466 is a popular engine, filters, oils, etc can be had along with undercarriage parts. What about anything else? i.e. final drive parts, etc.
thanks
I'm looking at a similar 175C. Curious if youve had any issues with finding parts, high wear items, etc? I know the DT466 is a popular engine, filters, oils, etc can be had along with undercarriage parts. What about anything else? i.e. final drive parts, etc.
thanks
Dhutch, we've been pretty lucky on parts. We found everything we needed for the engine swap no problem. Haven't needed any exotic parts...knock on wood. Seal kits, orings, hoses, all that is readily available. Pumps can be rebuilt. We had one steel hydraulic line that we needed to replace and the Komatsu dealer had it but it was $600. Probably available used , but it turned out to be fixable so dodged a bullet on that. The big parts like undercarriage, finals, radiators are all available but you have to scout them out, and they're used.
If you start with a decent machine and not one that's been run in the ground, I wouldn't be too afraid of a 175c.
If you start with a decent machine and not one that's been run in the ground, I wouldn't be too afraid of a 175c.
Nitelite
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Boone, I had forgotten about the diesel and oil smell that was mixed in with the fresh earth smell back in the day. I also remember that Gene's wife would not let him come inside the new house that he had just had built for her because he stank after working all day. She insisted that he take his work clothes off in the garage before entering. She said that he smelt just like diesel fuel. I didn't know that diesel fuel had a bad smell unless it had gone bad from old age!
Still working a weekend here and there. Thought I'd throw up a few pictures of this weekend's work. Spring is around the corner. Some things are budding, other things are still quite dry. We took advantage of the semi-dry conditions and set three of our big piles on fire. We still have a lot of dry sage stubble in the fields so we made a fire break around all of the piles. Good thing we did. The wind picked up as soon as they started roaring and one jumped the break. It was out of sight from where me and dad were standing and my brother flew up on his tractor sounding the alarm (blowing horn) so I ran and got my tractor. There's something about brush piles and grass fires that gets my heart rate up fast!
Next day, got the 175 out and consolidated one of the three big piles
We lit these piles off first thing and did other things during the day. The smoke literately followed us all day. My wife and kids were visiting her parents out of town, but I still think she could smell me.
Next day, got the 175 out and consolidated one of the three big piles
We lit these piles off first thing and did other things during the day. The smoke literately followed us all day. My wife and kids were visiting her parents out of town, but I still think she could smell me.
Yes, it's been nice to not have our hands tied on burning. Technically, we should've gotten a burn permit, but we didn't. There are Alabama laws that now ban burning during certain windows of time during the summer months to help with air quality. That law doesn't affect our county...yet. However, if the forestry commission sees big plumes of black smoke, you better believe they'll come find you. There were a few small planes that came overhead during the day. Who knows, maybe they were watching.
DMiller
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My county just requires notification to the local fire department if the no burn ordinances aren't active, real dry times they stop all burns.
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The open burn ban for the Birmingham area starts May 1 and ends Nov 1, several counties are affected.
It is nice to be able to burn brush the rest of the year. Legally we can only burn vegetated debris and non-treated lumber. In the old days, land clearing fires were started rather easily, a couple of old tires and some diesel. Light the tires and push the pile over on them. They'll throw you under the jail if they catch you burning tires now.
It is nice to be able to burn brush the rest of the year. Legally we can only burn vegetated debris and non-treated lumber. In the old days, land clearing fires were started rather easily, a couple of old tires and some diesel. Light the tires and push the pile over on them. They'll throw you under the jail if they catch you burning tires now.
Yup. We have a neighbor who can vouch for that.
Hehe, I just burned a 16 ft high by 80ft long pile of black locust. One of the FD guys deer hunts on my land and volunteered the F dept to come out for some fun. Worked out great, no hassels from anyone. I was very intimidated by the pile size and wouldn't have wanted to do it by myself. Im still clearing land with my 175C and will have another pile this fall. For me the 175 has been the perfect machine capacity wise. It does a great job of packing a tight pile that burns fully, rather than say a loose pile with a skid loader.
OldandWorn
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Ouch, that's some nice firewood being burned up.
245dlc
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Did you guys have a water tank or anything on hand in case it got out of hand? We had lots of farmers and landowners doing the same thing a couple years ago and nobody seems to want to take a few little precautions and keep some brooms, rakes, or some hose and water nearby. But on the other hand we probably wouldn't get any fire calls so to each its own. lol
Nice! The 4-n-1 would make it really nice for piling a bit higher too. Someone one here once said when we got the 175 running good that we wouldn't be disappointed and they were right on. It's been great machine for what we've done with it.
We did bring two shovels to beat out the grass fires, but the fire break we made around the piles did their job for the most part.