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Happy Saturday, Everyone.

Haven't been around the sty because I am ashamed that i haven't gotten to the TDI swap yet... lol. Life, work and maintenance on other rigs ate up my Fall. This Spring, I am going to get back on the ol' Piggy.

Here's to a mighty fine weekend.
 
Winter road trip to the ranch with dad and my bro, had to open the gate for loader delivery.

950 looked small on the lowbed
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Enough snow we put it straight to work getting driveway pushed in to park at Quonset
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Wow…. @Ol Yeller that is a beauty.
 
3_puppies said:
is that a "B" model?
nice seeing old iron still out working, simplicity like an old 40/55 series
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It’s about a 1980, not sure the series, made in Japan!
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PabloCruise said:
Beautiful!
Is the 950 your new snow removal machine?
I wish we had some snow like that up in the mountains. Colorado is feeling pretty dry right now...
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We generally are not up country for winter, mostly open the ranch April to Halloween. It would need chains to do snow duty for sure.
knuckle47 said:
Wow…. @Ol Yeller that is a beauty.
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forgot to ask,
is the loader one that you pull the throttle pedal up to shut it off?
does it use a key?
 
3_puppies said:
forgot to ask,
is the loader one that you pull the throttle pedal up to shut it off?
does it use a key?
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The key is only on the electric disconnect, the functional start sw is on the dash.
Buddy we bought it from says the third lever is shut down but really I think it just stalls is as it’s the 3rd valve which is capped.

I’ll have to mention to dad about lifting the pedal. 🍻
 
Ol Yeller said:
The key is only on the electric disconnect, the functional start sw is on the dash.
Buddy we bought it from says the third lever is shut down but really I think it just stalls is as it’s the 3rd valve which is capped.

I’ll have to mention to dad about lifting the pedal. 🍻
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That was the first gen loader I ever ran, brings back memories.
pull up on the fuel pedal should shut engine off, acts as a fuel shutoff/kill, just don't forget to depress the pedal before trying to restart engine or it will just crank and not fire. I learned the hard way 35 years ago.
 
3_puppies said:
forgot to ask,
is the loader one that you pull the throttle pedal up to shut it off?
does it use a key?
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Never heard of this before, ran some equipment but nothing like this. Was that common way to shut something like this off?
 
greenbeast said:
Never heard of this before, ran some equipment but nothing like this. Was that common way to shut something like this off?
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back in that era, it was, full mechanical fuel pump, no electric solenoids, pulling the lever, throttle linkage all the way in 1 direction shut it off.
"ignition key" was a rotating lever, left was glow plugs/heat, straight vertical was "neutral", right was crank, only way to stop engine, pull up on pedal or stall it. otherwise they just ran.
big levers ran down into the floor for the boom and bucket.
really spoiled operating equipment these days
 
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