Case850D for Farm Dozer

[JTUCK]

I am looking at a low hour Case 850D dozer. I am needing it for dirt work and some clearing work. Not sure one is worth or how good they are. Any information would be helpful.

 

[sweettractors]

I don't know where you are, but, I have a real solid Cat D3B for $14500. We have used it on our farm and farms we have bought to resell and are finished with it now. Ken Sweet

 

[SixHoeBob]

Run the Case and see if you can get good with the transmission controls. I think there is five levers on the control tower. Then there are three brake pedals and an accelerator. Thats nine controls to combine to get the desired movement. Then run a John Deere or a Cat. Three or four controls to combine to get the desired movement. I think you will find the Case is the least user friendly of any other machine on the market. There is a reason you see Cats and Deeres.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Run the Case and see if you can get good with the transmission controls. I think there is five levers on the control tower. Then there are three brake pedals and an accelerator. Thats nine controls to combine to get the desired movement. Then run a John Deere or a Cat. Three or four controls to combine to get the desired movement. I think you will find the Case is the least user friendly of any other machine on the market. There is a reason you see Cats and Deeres.

I think that a lot of the levers and pedals have to do with how old these machines are. Our old Cat D6 has 2 pedals and 4 levers and a throttle lever, 7 total to deal with. My Case 310 has a clutch and brake foot pedals and 2 turning break levers and a throttle lever, 5 total to deal with. Not sure how any machine needs 9 controls, and assuming that you are right it's no wonder that there are not many of those Cases around.

 

[DJ54]

Actually, I believe there are three levers. One for foward-reverse, and a control lever for each track, high-low.

We did a lot of channel/creek work with a 450C and a 850E series. I always liked the idea of making a powerturn putting one track in high, and the other in low, if need be, not just kill a track disengaging a clutch. You could also pull one lever back to the center position, and kill one track, but still be letting it roll, like pulling a hand clutch half way back. Or you could use the foot brake to feather the turn. Killing power to the track, or on down to make a more abrupt turn.

Just what you're used to operating I guess. I liked them , once I got on to it. And if you're hogging dirt, lot of minor steering can be done with the blade, by nudging a corner down, until you get the desirerd direction, then level out.

 

[Bob Rooks]

So is it a long track? LGP tracks? What is the vintage?
Don't let the amount of levers intimidate you, you will only be using one or two at a time, unless you have a wire blade in which case there would be one more, but I doubt it.

 

[slowzuki]

Local guy uses an 850 long track for his contracting business. He really likes the unit. The number of levers is no big deal, half are just the pair of clutches and pair of brakes.

 

[SixHoeBob]

I ran an 1150 dozer for about a day. The console had five levers. I think one was Hi-Lo range. A pair of levers behind that was Hi-Lo for each track. A pair of levers behind those were forward-reverse for each track. When you go for low range at full throttle and accidentally put one side into reverse, there is a very loud bang:shocked: I can't imagine this is good for the machine. Don't forget the brake pedals exist too. Then the 1155E loader was the slowest raising loader I have ever been around. That is except for the 1455 loader, it was even slower. The company went bankrupt.

A D3-B has one transmission control for the 3 speed forward and reverse power shift transmission. The machine is made to run full throttle at all times.
Steering is with the left and right brake pedals. I have never had one go bang,

The Fiat-Allis loader only went bang once. That was when the final drive self destructed. A mere $5800 later, I was told that one could expect the other side to fail. We caught it, and it only cost $3000.

Buy a Cat.

 

[JTUCK]

I sent a man to look at the dozer. It had 1700 hours on it. It looks good and drives good but look like it has recently had new rails and pins. Just wondering how often these need to be changed.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I sent a man to look at the dozer. It had 1700 hours on it. It looks good and drives good but look like it has recently had new rails and pins. Just wondering how often these need to be changed.

That is a good thing, now you will never have to mess with that. I doubt that it only has 1700 hours, more like 11700 hours. Don't let the hours scare you, if the tractor has been well taken care of and it sounds like it has, it will serve you well. How much is the owner asking for it?

Good luck