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Can anyone help with how to replace the main lift shaft on a Cat 17K grader? We are having trouble removing the existing damaged main lift shaft. Any assistance would be appreciated! Thank you! I've never heard of a 17K grader or of the term "main lift shaft",is it possible you have the m...

Can anyone help with how to replace the main lift shaft on a Cat 17K grader? We are having trouble removing the existing damaged main lift shaft. Any assistance would be appreciated! Thank you! I've never heard of a 17K grader or of the term "main lift shaft",is it possible you have the m...

Can anyone help with how to replace the main lift shaft on a Cat 17K grader? We are having trouble removing the existing damaged main lift shaft. Any assistance would be appreciated! Thank you! I've never heard of a 17K grader or of the term "main lift shaft",is it possible you have the m...

Hi, Renaultman. Been there, dunn that, miserable sods wouldn't give me a T-shirt to prove it. 42 Tons operating weight with a rear-mounted ripper, Cummins 855 'donk', 20 foot blade, rigid frame, some air-over-hydraulic controls (different - not necessarily better, but 'different'.), would push-load...

Roly, Thanks for posting the photos of "my" most-impressive dozer ever! Im really hoping that Black Rat will produce their 1:50 TC-12 in cable operated form with the coal blade in the future. If anyone is inerested; Ill be posting some photos of my latest TC-12 in the models section in la...

Hi Folks, Today I was at the "War & Peace Show" down at Paddock Wood, Kent. This is an excellent show and I will be posting quite a few pics that I took today mainly under the Military vehicles topic. I came across this interesting beast but does anybody know the model number? ;) I wa...

i am from Australia and own a scoopmobiel do you know the history of scoopmobiel i think they are from portland but its a moore soopmobiel

made by com eng in Sydney aust soled by m moore in o/s com eng in nz scoopmobie taken over by wabco L3,L5

JimInOz wrote:Just wondering if any Kimco loaders made it to Europe/UK?
I'm looking for info on Kimco 505 Loaders & Google ain't much help...

Jim

KIMCO = Komatsu,International-Harvester,Machinery, Co.

So Stu ... Are they any good? Those Komatsu haulers to me are copies of Cats popular 777 ! They should be called copycatmatsu's ! Get your own design ideas Komatsu !!!!!!!!!!!!!! They didnt look like Copies to me .. The Frame work and suspension looked really good .. Go and crawl under a new cat an...

Hi Brian, Got to agree with you on the smaller stuff, Hitachi does have the edge. The mining machines are totally different. The Komatsu's are derived from the original Demag models and they are virtually indestuctable! Paul Paul I swop you a pc8000 for ex5000 any day and make that night shift the ...