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This atlas belonged to WAM of Saintfield,She was used to topsoil the batters on the castledawson bypass circa 91-2.Operators name was Robbie who ran a d53p-17 as well.Was shifted to the canal job and the rest is history,story at the time was that they got the burners and burnt the dipper of and left...

Wow indeed,hope its doing well,weight aprox 100 t,i was told 75 when the blade,cab and rops were removed,here a u tube link of the same machine working with the previous owner before me,serial no is 10086,ps vid is courtesy of cookie monster AKA Alastair Cooke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6MYqTb...

nice vid,looks like it was set up,if the operator couldnt get that out by himself time he was elsewhere and id be surprised if a complete rookie was let loose on that knowing what it costs to run

Should check with Neil D,he had a 621 scraper which i think he was keeping for spares which im nearly sure had a v8,worth asking the question!

if thats an older n series tractor it will be pushed to make 60-70 grand unless its on new undercarriage etc,if the undercarrige is down it would cost more to retrack it than its worth.Only thing is if u could get work for this tractor it would pull you in £120 an hour but running costs are high.An...

Dave i dont miss the machine as much as the times,no recession and everything working,be a while before those times are back.i speak regularly to the previous owner and the Graf Spee as he calls it is a regular topic of conversation.here a couple of picts of some friends of our having a go

ive edited the above post with some sums to make it a bit clearer,plenty of picts in previous posts u are exactly right regarding replacing metal,let the next punter do that,lol

Guessing doesnt work Been there done this with a komatsu 475 a few years ago ,60 grand for a pair of track groups,5000 for a front idler,u wont get any more than 120 plus fuel and tips for these older tractors and no bother with drivers,i ran it myself as tlc required to get every pound out of the u...

if thats an older n series tractor it will be pushed to make 60-70 grand unless its on new undercarriage etc,if the undercarrige is down it would cost more to retrack it than its worth.Only thing is if u could get work for this tractor it would pull you in £120 an hour but running costs are high.Ano...

Heres the latest edition to the scotland job,its a 03 l110e with 10000 hours,ran it myself for the last month and well impressed with it,tried a new chinese loader before this,a demonstrator 300 hr cheng gong 958h,which was the same money as the 7 year old volvo.no comparison as far as the operator ...