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rrlund · Feb 26, 2018

John Deere 430. Honestly,I don't remember where I got it. Birthday or Christmas present most likely.

larry@stinescorner · Feb 26, 2018

Thats a nice one!!!! I wonder if anyone on this Site has had one,,or has stories of one?Were they a good machine in real life?

lee little · Feb 26, 2018

One of my students got one in some sort of trade when he was a freshman in high school . He nearly wore out the area behind his house tinkering and playing with it. He is a top notch diesel mechanic today.

sms · Feb 26, 2018

My dad had two 40s with Braden winches that he used for logging, small, nimble in the woods. I was about 6 when I started driving them. I have plenty of stories. Just before he traded them in I turned against a rock in all the forest and logging litter and broke one of the spokes in the rear sprocket. I was told I knew better....I was 8 years old. Another time we were finishing a pond at my grandparents farm, he hooked the crawler to a spring tooth harrow and told me to harrow the hill above the pond, I started at the top and by the time I got to the other side I had slid 30-40 feet down the hill..I let dad finish it. One of my earliest memories of logging was a steep hillside parcel with a skid road diagonally up the steep slope, about 2/3 of the way up a bit of ledge rock went across the skid road. The machine would stand up then come down with a bang everytime we went up the mountain. One thing we used to do for fun was shut it off let it coast maybe choke it some and just before it stopped turning turn the switch on and BANG it would backfire.

moresmoke · Feb 26, 2018

My grandfather had a 40C with a dozer on it. He had bought it to pull a manure spreader in winter, it worked well for that. As far as using the dozer, it was better than a shovel, not much but better.

dahlin · Feb 26, 2018

I had a 430 and two 420s I didn't have the 430 very long so not much for stories. The 420 I cleared one small field and when I was just about done I threw a track right on an ant hill ya that was lots of fun to put back on. I had an Oliver HG crawler also we were skidding some dead Elm down the river and broke through the ice while we were trying to get off the ice the water was about 2 feet deep ya that was fun. Had to get it out of the water because the temps were going to get below 0 that night it seems like when you have trouble with a crawler its all ways in the worst possible spot. Randy

Brian G. NY · Feb 26, 2018

(quoted from post at 12:55:17 02/26/18) John Deere 430. Honestly,I don't remember where I got it. Birthday or Christmas present most likely.

Wow...that is nice!
I like the 3 point hitch!
My neighbor farmer had one of the earlier JD dozers.
He used it occasionally to pull his baler when conditions were too bad for his Allis WC.

D beatty · Feb 26, 2018

I have John Deere & IH toys and have only one crawler and it is an IH 340 and has only been out of box once.

SVcummins · Feb 26, 2018

I have a real 420c they are A pretty nice little machine pulled an 14 foot ih 620 press drill loaded with seed in 4th gear it only had the 4 speed transmission not the 5 that was the only implement we had that was sized to it besides a 4 section drag that it also pulled in 4th I always dreamed of having the optional 3 point hitch and pto mine was only the 4 roller not the 5 I had a home made dozer but it was built to light move dirt I only used it for snow

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