[AT] Oliver OC3 Dozer. Whats it worth?

[charlie hill]

Who was the Cletrac guy that was real active on this site for a couple of 
years?  Seems like he was in WVA , Ohio, Western PA area.  He had/has a web 
site dedicated to Cletracs.

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From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:10 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Oliver OC3 Dozer. Whats it worth?

>    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" 
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> 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.
>>
>>
>> http://rochester.craigslist.org/grd/1827176266.html
>>
>>
>> Charlie V. in WNY
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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