Message #194818

[treeingratterrier]

pard a Cat 16 has a d9 motor in it is 10 foot wide and has a 16 foot wide blade and weighs 55,000, we just did a complete circle rack rebuild on it before hunting season, its going to get a new exhaust turbo, injectors, turbo elbow and the right gearbox rebuilt on the blade life, hit a hackberry on the way home alas, I just bought 2 new 8d batterys for it yesterday and cranked it up today, we cleaned and painted it real good and it has some more decals to finish it off, $25,000 repaired, you can see it at the yard here and work it or at the John Deere Dealer in Beeville this week, got the parts to fix the lift box but i can not get up to work on anything myself anymore so have to hire it done, I have owned this machine 2 years and its never had much go wrong but the usual hose breaking from limbs or something minior, got all the books for it, a ton of extra parts and it needs a new home, it has brakes, turns good, no slipping or getting hot or surprizes, we drove it around between the 2 1800 ranches we have down here to work over all of the senderos and blade out some bardditches after the flooding, it came from Green Bay Wscon so no rust as usual from down here.  i will try to get a video of it starting up in th emorning, i went thru the starter and got new one and redid all of the cable and new connections and clamps and the 16 starts with key and has 24 volt system that is working good and charging.