[AT] Oliver OC3 Dozer. Whats it worth?

[Gene Dotson]

    Max McFadden from lower, slower Delaware is the one who comes to mind. 
He attended Portland a couple of times and seems he was doing work in 
Russia. I seem to remember he did forestry consulting? Maybe someone has an 
update on him?

                        Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [AT] Oliver OC3 Dozer. Whats it worth?


> 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.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:10 AM
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> 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"
>> <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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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