[AT] Oliver OC3 Dozer. Whats it worth?

[Gene Dotson]

    I bought a Case 320 dozer about 10 years ago. It is probably closer to 
an OC-4 than a -3. It has been a very handy size dozer around the farm. It 
has a 6 foot blade and weighs about 6000 pounds, so can trailer it behind my 
pickup. It has been very useful in cleaning up my small farm and bieng 
narrow, it will go anywhere in the woods. I have plowed with it with my 2-16 
Case plow and also worked ground pulling my 13 foot disc. Really gives a 
nice ride on freshly plowed ground. It has cleared snow when nothing else 
would go through the drifts. Pulls out stuck tractors, trucks and even skid 
loader.

    A smaller dozer will do a lot of the jobs bigger tractors will do, just 
takes a little longer. Smaller dozers have a lot lighter footprint and do 
not tear up the ground as much as a bigger tractor.


    I paid $2400 for the 320 and hauled it home from Iowa. Had a few 
undercarriage problems, but these were all solved when I was able to buy a 
complete chassis and undercarriage from the local wrecking yard. Everything 
was replaced from the final drives to tracks.

    I would value the OC-3 in working condition at about $1600 to $2000. A 
collector might pay more, but not a whole lot more unless really nice shape.

                                Gene


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Oliver OC3 Dozer. Whats it worth?


> Nearly a month and the ad is still up on this one. Looks like no one is
> going to rush to pay the price.
>
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> http://rochester.craigslist.org/grd/1827176266.html
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> Charlie V. in WNY
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>
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Around here, the "muck" farmers used OC-3's and AC-G's to work the
>> fragile black soil, so both were fairly common. Frankly, having worked
>> on my neighbor's OC-3, they are more of a curiosity than a working
>> tractor - they are too light to do any serious dirt moving. On local guy
>> uses his for some light log skidding. I have seen them for sale around
>> here (NW NJ and NE PA) in supposedly good condition in the range of
>> $1500-2500. As with all crawlers, the condition of the
>> tracks/pins/clutches are more important than the engine - those areas
>> are where the time, money, and physical effort really add up quickly.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 8/2/2010 6:54 PM, John Widener wrote:
>> > What is an Oliver OC3 cletrac w/ PTO, w/ add on blade worth? It was
>> > running 4 or 5 years ago and has since been stored inside. The engine
>> > is still free with compression.
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