They are well used and like everything, parts will need to be replaced. Remember that older equipment requires allot of wrenching. It was too light and small to accomplish very much.Įven with rippers, I would't expect to accomplish much with a small dozer in rock. It was fun for clearing some trails, but it really struggled in pushing the piles of debris. That dozer was too small to dig in the dirt.
The Deere is good for residential work, but I found it to be too small for anything on the farm. I believe this is a bigger dozer then the Case, but don't know for sure. I've never been on a Case 450, but do have some experience with a John Deere 450G. I would covet opinions of those with small dozer experience in limestone rock! It would be nice to have a dozer to keep my roads in good condition, but the box blade does an okay job of that - not great, but okay (hmm - maybe the operator?) Many are like icebergs - 90% of the mass is buried. Speaking of rock - the limestone rock is mostly loose with zillions of boulders up to maybe three feet in diameter. Nothing would be worse than getting the 450 and discovering it's only marginally better than my Kubota for moving rock. I realize large is good, small is not good when trying to push stuff around, so I'm attempting to do research to determine if the little 450 (~11,000 pounds) would be useful for my intended purpose. There is a late 1970s Case 450 with about 300 hours on a frame-out engine overhaul and supposedly good UC and running gear (and a 6-way.) I'll bet I could pick this little guy up for around 10K (or it would be no-deal for me.) I've spent half a day making a 50' path for the truck :Banghead
I've tried to move some of the largest rocks out of the way with my little 30 horse Kubota loader and box blade, but it's an exercise in futility. We have a small place in Texas (30 acres) with lots of limestone (and a little topsoil here 'n there!) I need to drive the fence line in my mini-truck, but some of the area is pretty rocky and tough on my rear-end and the truck.
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