D7 Crazy price?

I thought this was an interesting ad. The dozer has ben burned thoroughly in a wildland fire. I thought $7200 was high. Were it mine, I think it would be a u haul it deal.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/hvo/d/napa-caterpillar-d73t/7271316411.html

D7

lots of iron there so scrap price could be substantial

D7 weighs around 38,000 lbs, with price of scrap right now , be lucky to get $3,000.

How much of the tracks and undercarriage will still be usable?

I wouldn't think a D7 cable lift was worth that price b4 it burned.

Cable blade, that's old. Price is high even without the fire.

One thought here... Considering the address and current state one could surmise that most all the carbon foot print has been burned away and could be deemed more valuable in the local market. Just sayin’?

Maybe before the fire, from a glance, it looks like a well taken care of tractor. The undercarriage could easily be checked with a track gauge from that era, it looks like it could be in good shape, lots of hours left.

Wherever it got hot, will need to check seals and gaskets and or similar, that would be the nickel and dime part of it. It would be a shame to scrap or part this tractor given the repairs mentioned and that it was not in middle of a structure fire. This one was not too hot for too long, people have put far more time and money into ones that have much more wear

A 3T in the condition prior to, with a potentially great undercarriage, in sound mechanical and field ready condition would be worth $5K all day long, a bit more for one in exceptional condition, and of course what the local market might be bringing. These old dry clutch tractors are all over the west, especially CA, some in very nice shape.

I am like you here in Tennessee a 50+ year old d7 cable would be hard to sell running before the fire for that price. Gear drive not tilt on the blade just not what folks want at any price.

I would say it is all useable except maybe the seals in the track rollers. I don’t think that machine got extremely hot. I may be wrong but I think even those old Cat injection pumps had some aluminum pieces on the very back. I see no signs of any melting, aluminum melts at a lower temperature than steel. I would like to know if it still has fuel in the tank. I think those old Cats were built just like old tractors with all metallic fuel lines, no hoses. That’s why new combines and tractors turn into such an inferno when they catch fire. It’s not long before the plastic fuel line melts. Then the fire just follows the melting line pouring fuel out back to the plastic fuel tank. When that melts things get real hot real quick. Then on a combine add another 30 gal or so of hydraulic oil to fuel the fire when its tank melts. All this lights the big rubber tires or tracks on fire and we all know how those things burn. And as someone else posted it was not in a structure fire with other fuel sources to concentrate the heat. If the engine and final drives still have oil in them that is not to cooked down I would bet most all the hard parts are good. In my thinking yes the price is to high. I personally think even if someone got it for a 3rd of the asking price it still would not be worth trying to get a cable lift machine back in service from that point. If they did so I would say they have the Kitty yellow fever and it got to their brain.