brought home my AD3 today

one word comes to mind looking at those pics...

Darrel,Darrel!! What about the HD5? finish the 5! We're proud of you though. Any body that follows our posts knows that we're pretty guilty of gettin the next one before we get the last one done (kinda fun huh). We actually have a AD3 in waiting that we have to go get sometime. We have several tractors that look pink also, it's a paint thing. (fades) That's why we spent $2000.00 on paint for the HD 15 restored dozer. It has become our biggest expense for restoration projects, cause we can't control it. Proud of you for getin some pictures posted too. The 371 is still a good choice if you have everything to go back in there. Keep us posted (LOL).

Hey Mel. I have been tinkering on my forty-five road grader, also, instead of finishing the five. I am starting to feel some urges to get back after that five again soon. Maybe them urges are coming from my wife telling me to finish it up and use it to clean out her corrals, or else. .....
Maybe you could answer this question for me too. The 3-71 out of my lunched out HD7 should go right into this AD3, shouldn't it. That is if it ain't shot from sitting for so long. Darrel

put a 4-71 in it then youll have an AD4.AD3 is a dog.Takes most of the engine to move the machine.

shameless (ne) wrote: you gonna use that thing to shave off catus's?

don't have much cactus around here maybe go down to New Mexico and help ole Joe out with them goat head things. Darrel

    I went after the rest of the parts for this machine today, and am now more confused than ever as to what to do with it. I bought it sight un-seen as a parts machine for my forty five, but like everything else, now instead of having a runner and a parts machine, I have two machines that need parts. Except this AD3 doesn't need many parts, except for an engine. I know; that's kind of a biggy. But everything else for it is there, and according to the guy I got it from, it all works. I tend to beleive, because if it was a POS, I don't think that he would have ever started the restoration on it. All of the loose parts I picked up today, such as the hood and grill, are all immaculate. And like I mentioned earlier in this thread, the whole machine has been sand blasted and painted. Un-fortunately, the paint is faded away to a more pink color. On parts that were out of the sun, they still have a brilliant orange color to em. Got six very good used tires for it along with the deal also. It does need cab glass, too, but that is not as big of a deal as it may seem, because many glass shops can cut the shapes, and provide the rubber molding to install it, and once you catch on to installing it, it's not difficult.
    I guess, what it all boils down to, is in my fantasy world, I am going to go pull the engine out of my old dead HD7, put it into this AD3, put er all back together and have one sweet ole motor grader. In the reality world, I'll get this done about the time hell freezes over. So, I am not really officially putting it up for sale......yet, but I am officially looking for interested parties who may be eager to jump all over this project, and take it off my hands. The only reason I would have for not selling it to someone interested in it, would be if my wife or son put there foot down, and say absolutely not. Spread the word, think it over, give me ideas, let me know. Thanks, Darrel
     

Yes, Darrell just keep enjoying it, it's not a bad disease and we enjoy your company 

When I used to plow roads with the V plow on the township AD 4,I wished it had a 6-71.High banks would make stretches 3-4ft deep.Get a run at it in 6th and pull it down to the bottom and grab 4th,which wasn't good for much before you were just spinning.Chains on all 4 drives.It took a lot of backing up and blasting into it be fore you got a narrow path all the way through.Then do the same thing hitting the bank trying to throw it back.Very time consuming.Needed more power.

Shameless, where was you snowmobiling at up here in North Dakota? We do have a few cactus in our pastures, but not so much that I am going to run out there with the road grader to get rid of it. When ya hit that cactus, did you have to have your ole lady pick thorns out of your gonads. ?
I am awful disappointed in ya, that ya haven't commented on the pretty pink color that my road grader is. Or maybe you is upset cause it's already pink and so you can't sneak up here and paint it pink. Lol.
And ain't ya got nuttin better to do at a quarter past four in the morning than to be on the computer. ? Darrel

that wasn't a very good day up there that day! we was there for snow machine races. I was entered and when my race heat came, my face shield fogged up and I had to throw it open to see, then in the last turn of the race (I was 1st at the time) the snow had been thrown outwards and that left bare frozen dirt, which the ski's on my sled caught, and it threw me and the machine over the embankment of the track. after I gots my breath back and was starting to get up, the rescue crews were just arriving, and as luck would have it, the bottle of schnapps I had in the tool box (forgots to take it out before the race) had flown out and busted! (what a waste) then one of the schmucks that arrived on scene disqualified me to race any more cuz he seen that broke bottle out there! PffffT! so we decided to to out and sight see since we was already there, and that's when I found that danged cactus! I AM NOT EVER GONNA GO SNOW MOBILEING IN ND EVER AGAIN! PfffffT!  

You probably got a cactus on your tongue from licking up the scnapps. You couldn'thave been anywhere near where I grew up. There, they would not have let you in the race without having schnapps, or sumpthin like it. Now if you didn't share it, they may have dis-qualified you. Darrel

between snow machines and bull riding, that's prolly why my back is shot to hell!

Shameless, you used to ride bulls. ......? I don't think anything would surprise me anymore. Ya know them PETA people don't like bull riders much either. Lol. Darrel

Man, I tell ya. These last few posts sure do explain a lot of questions I had before, such as "how did ya gets the way you are?" Lol Darrel

Ian Beale wrote: Shameless FYI http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shagger%27s%20Back