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Codger 
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 Topic: Somebody needs this:
Posted: 20 Dec 2023 at 1:48am |
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A career built on repairing and improving engineering design deficiencies, shortcomings, and failures over 50 years now.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 20 Dec 2023 at 7:19am |
no not 'need' but WANT !!! it'd be a GREAT ride to Walmart and I'd KNOW my section of road WOULD be snow free no matter what 'he who has the machine' tosses at me !!!
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Posted: 20 Dec 2023 at 7:48am |
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I really know nothing of motor graders myself but that one seems to be worth the money, (from an inexperienced eye).
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DonBC
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 1:12pm |
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Fully equipped with all the options available to that machine. Tires alone are almost worth the cost.
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Mikez
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Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 8:00am |
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What years were they built.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 8:25am |
production from at least the early 1960s thru 1980.... short movie//
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Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 9:21am |
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Interesting movie. They had one out in Mechanicsburg at the proving grounds but I never seen it operate. Never did know anything about motor graders other than a local horse boarding stable outfit used one often for their track maintenance. Another guy I know maintains his stock car track outside of Canton with a grader, but don't know that machine at all.
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DMiller
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Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 7:44pm |
Only hard to master aspect of that series is the mechanical controls, NOTHING Hydraulic so absolutely NO FEATHERING, engage/Disengage Only. Called these Hand Bruisers or slappers, as name implies, can be really hard as to getting soft on controls. Speed is not all that considered, engine speed and gearing keep blade aspects changes relatively slow but have to be pretty quick on the E/D part of that equation. Series 12 Cats were really close in style.
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DonBC
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Posted: 24 Dec 2023 at 12:53pm |
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I do remember those mechanical controls. Not as an operator but as a child walking home from school. A couple of times the grader operator picked me up and gave me a ride home as he was grading the road that passed by our home.
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