Trackloders again.....

I posted a while back about a 955H cat trackloader.....well....I went and looked at it, and well....junk. LOL. WORE OUT.

Found a Deere 755 close to home, looking at it. Asking price of $11,500. Not sure of year or model suffix. Hoping to look at it today / tomorrow.

Good bad and ugly of these machines?

Big if here.... but 750 and 850 crawlers had a reputation with the hydrostatic drive. I ran an 850 with 12' blade, early in my career, seemed pretty decent, but as I am led to believe, these of that certain era, you may want use discretion as a buyer. I could be comparing apples to oranges, but if the 755 is similar or uses the same kind of components, buyer beware for sure, again, I could be 100% incorrect, its a model I am unfamiliar worth, but thought it worth stating about the 750-850 models.

I think you are correct. The dozers were 750/850, and the loaders were 755/855. Hard to go wrong with a CATERPILLAR!

True, well they did build some reliable and durable tractors, 955 series was one. There was a 955 locally on CL for awhile, no R.O.P.S. but it looked worth investigating, tracks looked good in the photos, but you would have to inspect/measure etc. It was under 10k, though, forget what they were asking, looked decent.

The 850 I ran performed well, but the hydrostatic drive in it was different than anything I ran previously. I was on job with it 40 miles west of here and had hauled it in on a state road through the mountains over there, went out the back side and to the NYS thruway to catch I-88 off Rt 30, got on the thruway over width, but when at the toll, I had to get an overwidth permit, toll collector issued one for $20, this was in 1990, never forget that guy, cigar in his mouth and he got a chuckle out of the company name on the uniform, "Moon Construction" he said, "Don't moon me" I thought I was in big trouble, but wanted to avoid those long hills and really tight turns with this JD 850 on the trailer. Worked out and got it back to the yard, handed my receipts in to get reimbursed.

"Hard to go wrong with a CATERPILLAR!"

After owning one JD crawler, then buying a Cat to replace it, that was my conclusion.

That price is about 50% to high unless it is ultra low houred and in immaculate condition. Just not much demand for those machines.

I had a 955H for a few years. About a 1960 model.
Pins and bushings had been replaced not long before I bought it. It ran real good, had been converted from the pony start to electric.
I put a driveway in, loaned it to my step dad for a summer and he put a driveway in.
Was a popular guy on our country road. Did a couple garage pads with it, buried stuff, Cleared brush, cut some trails through the woods, let all our cousins drive it around and smash stuff with it. There's nothing like watching a 10 year old boy have at it and dig and thrash and rend with something like that.
Finally I had no more use for it so I sold it. Paid $7300 for it when I bought it and sold it for $6900 about 4 years later. It was money well spent.
No it wont do what a regular dozer will do - at least not as fast. But it will do a lot of things a dozer wont. I transplanted several 5" dia trees with it, hauled fill a couple hundred yards to cross a swamp, moved big rocks and set them down just so, was able to use it with my bro in the bucket limbing trees and the grousers on the tracks weren't SO darned hard on finished landscaping.
They are awesome machines.