545 RESCUE TO COLLECTION
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Topic: 545 RESCUE TO COLLECTION
Posted By: AC Mel
Subject: 545 RESCUE TO COLLECTION
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2016 at 10:15pm
Thought I would update progress on the 545 we rescued several years ago. But I couldn't find the post, couldn't even find the pictures in my computer, truth be known the post didn't happen until now. Summertime is not good posting time for me so some of these events get away. It's posting season now (20 plus inches of rain).David made a 4 hour trip one way to Montague, Ca. to pick this up.  It was inoperable as you would expect, so we did our normal loading.  It was being used on a dairy and got tired.  It was pretty cooperative.  Came with a couple of buckets, both pretty rough.  So it's been sitting like this for several years. Needed tires  We thought if we could find some tires that would hold air we could at least roll it around and work on it when possible.  So we drug it out and put it on the cement where it might be easier to work on.  The tire guy is coming with 4 tires that are round,black and air proof. We have another engine if we can't rehabilitate this one.  So we currently are working on an 840B loader and a 545 and thinking about what crawler to start on for the Logging Show in March. |
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2016 at 10:41pm
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That loader looks very similar to mine. It has a cracked intake tube in the transmission which pretty much requires pulling everything apart and replacing the tube and put it all back together. Glad to hear you got 20 inches of rain, that should help the ground water situation and make the grass green! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2016 at 8:16am
| Now that's the way to load a piece of non-running equipment! |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2016 at 11:08am
| Dang-- I been under so many things that I sure could have used that track HOE TO PICK UP |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2016 at 2:04pm
| I could just use a track hoe excavator PERIOD!!! |
Posted By: orangeman
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2016 at 3:10pm
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Nice Work Mel: How many hours on the clock? Saved another one from a miserable EPA fate! Orangeman
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Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2016 at 9:35pm
Ok, the tire guy showed up with some tires Don't know how soon we'll get back to it, but at least it's mobile 
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Posted By: ACcrazy
Date Posted: 26 Dec 2016 at 9:43am
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Nice one, Mel. Looks to be in fairly nice shape--at least cosmetically. That's one of the good things about not being right on the coast like where I'm at. Things don't turn to rust overnight.  |