Aquired 1953 IH TD-14A Dozer

[Pukeko]

5 hours ago, MrMarty51 said:

And yesterday.

My nephew has a carpenter construction company and also does seamless gutters.

I had him stop over and look over installing gutters on my garage.

We chatted a while then he asked whats with the trailer.

I told him about the dozer and my search for a trailer.

He asked why dont I just use his trailer.

I mentioned that the dozer could weigh as high as 27,000 pounds.

He said my trailer is a triple axle dually, I haul my scissor lift on it all over the country and that lift weighs 24,000 pounds.

Okay maybe this will work. Told Him I’ll try to find green cotton wood planks to lay down and I’ll get the ramps from this yellow trailer so it wont load his ramps with the tracks. They can lay over His ramps and then be set on the deck after the dozer is loaded.

 

Thats more like it Mr  Marty.They are probably 10000 lb axles ,so you have 30000 lbs minus trailer tare weight. That would be about 8500 lbs, ( depending on manufacturer, they are all a bit different .My 40 footer tri axle dually is 9000) but you have an allowance for the truck axle .Up here in Canada I am allowed up to 16060 lbs on my truck( single axle semi ) with 24.5 rubber. Now on your 1 ton, you  certainly wont have that much of an allowance ,but there is  going to be some ,again depending on what your state allows. We are also allowed the max weight on the tires. I.e  here in Alberta there are 12  235-80 ,10 ply 16 Inch tires on the  40 footer rated at 3042 lbs per tire (weight varies depends on manufacturer)   at 80 p.s.i ,so I am good for 36000 gross on the trailer .I have been over some   often ,but I get the allowance on the drivers  so am well clear .Not sure what the rules are down there, and here it varies province to province re the numbers .Long story short ,that trailer will work great  for you as long as the old chev is ok with the stopping part .and the good is that the trailer has

three good braking axles to help with that part of it.

[MrMarty51]

Needing parts for that lighter yellow trailer, spring perches and U bolts, I showed the guy that owns the trailer repair shop a pic of My nephews trailer, he laughed, said that he was the one that installed the third axle under that trailer and it will handle that load. He then named my nephew. 😹

But yeah, I have been in a couple of scary situations due to the lack of trailer brakes.

1965 Ford 1/2 ton pickup. Pickup box trailer, truck and trailer loaded to the maximum helping my brother move from Grass Valley California to Billings Montana.

Coming off of Donner Pass, now that was one miserable spooky ride when the pickups brakes were beginning to fade towards the bottom of that pass. 

[jeeper61]

I would just hire someone to haul the dozer this relieves you of any liability if some thing goes wrong. 

If you have an equipment failure on the road the tow bill will likely be higher than having the dozer hauled.

Tires are a big consideration old tires can not be loaded to the max they will blow.

Single tire axles with a blowout creates a very dangerous situation on a overloaded trailer 

The yellow trailer is definitely out because the deck is to short to position the load properly to reduce the tongue weight.

The other consideration is the ramps you don't want one of them to fail while you are loading or lift the truck while loading if they don't have a drop leg to prevent that. 

 

 

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

If that is just a 20K trailer with a 3rd axle added, I would still be very careful. Driving it on the back is going to be a lot more weight than the trailer was designed for. Just because it has another axle added doesn’t mean that the GVW necessarily went up 10,000 pounds. Sometimes loading dozers is a little bit “violent” and most older lowboys will show a lot of evidence of that. 

[yellowrosefarm]

When I bought my Farmall super C, the guy pushed it on my trailer with a JD 450 dozer which weighs around 15K. Both of us were paying more attention to the tractor than the dozer, and it got up on one of the angle iron ramps. Let's just say the crawler had it's way with the first 6" of the ramp.  I got it straightened out some, but it's a reminder to this day to pay better attention.

[stronger800]

I was thinking the nephews trailer was super heavy.  But now I realize it is almost certainly a typical 20k trailer, and I’d agree…it’s still going going to be light.  Adding trailer. axles isn’t a thing around here.  Might actually be illegal. 

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

I have only loaded my track loader and moved it a few times. I can assure you I don’t know what I’m doing. Loading that thing up for me is very difficult. It is nothing like loading something on tires. It feels like it is pointed straight up when it’s going up the ramps before it breaks over. It is a power shift and I’m sure it is a lot easier to load than an old one with a hand clutch. I am an experienced farm equipment operator, but I just let my hired guy load it because he has run dozers a lot more than me. When I’m half way up the ramps and the track slips, I’m about ready to have a heart attack. Rusty track pads are a lot easier to load than when they are bright. If those trailers don’t have extremely well built ramps, you can about guarantee damage will occur like @yellowrosefarm said. 

[MrMarty51]

Yup. Before I attempt loading that dozer onto anything, I will be checking with the three possibilities of companies that has lowboy trailers and semi truck rigs.

On another note.

The shop that owns that yellow trailer has an old International, partial cab over truck that was abandoned at his yard. The owner He discovered had died and that man had never been married and had no other family. His mom and pop had passed on years ago.

This old IH has a detroit diesel under the hood. Not sure just which engine it is, truck looks to be early 70s, single axle, probably about the same class as about a 7500 series GM single axle truck.

If the shop owner dont mind I will go through the break in title procedure, get clean title on the truck then install the semi truck fifth wheel type hitch.

Work it over to be road worthy then start shopping and searching for a lowboy trailer.

Then the dozer can be transported at will and as long as I am not running a business IDT I need a CDL. Kind of a hobby sort of a thing where the main function of the dozer will be to maintain the road going into the cabin.

Right now that road is so rough that when I went in on Friday and came back out on Saturday it was four wheel drive and low range most of the way. Couple of muddy places but mainly just that rough.

I’ll get some pics of that old IH truck after I get there today.

[MrMarty51]

There is this truck. It has a Renault diesel six cylinder installed.

 

But I think this will be the one. Its a Cummins, He didnt remember what size, 13 speed Road Ranger and all in excellent working order. $5,000.00.

He said if I get my CDL that I could work that off in mighty short order.

 

Have to add a pintle hitch then find a decent trailer and I’ll be in the durt business. 
😹😹😹

[stronger800]

I think I’d run that dozer around the area where it been sitting, push some stuff, see how it works and how you like it, before drawing up a new business model 

[MrMarty51]

On 11/18/2025 at 8:00 PM, stronger800 said:

I think I’d run that dozer around the area where it been sitting, push some stuff, see how it works and how you like it, before drawing up a new business model 

Some mighty sound advice right there. 😹😹😹

Steering brake/clutches is needing further adjustment.

Might get time tomorrow after doing the Christmas lights thing.

Cold weather on the way. Would like to have the dozer off that hill before it gets too cold and winter like out there.

[hardtail]

And slipperier,  steel tracks are great until winter appears 

[int 504]

x2

[jeeper61]

22 hours ago, MrMarty51 said:

Cold weather on the way. Would like to have the dozer off that hill before it gets too cold and winter like out there.

Don't side hill on frozen ground, snow or ice you could get a quick ride downhill sideways  

[jeeper61]

On 11/18/2025 at 3:11 PM, MrMarty51 said:

There is this truck. It has a Renault diesel six cylinder installed.

 

But I think this will be the one. Its a Cummins, He didnt remember what size, 13 speed Road Ranger and all in excellent working order. $5,000.00.

 The Cummins with the 13 is only choice there 

That Renault diesel would just be a headache trying to find parts and a backache trying to pay for them.

[Rawleigh99]

Five grand seems like a good price for that truck.

[MrMarty51]

7 hours ago, Rawleigh99 said:

Five grand seems like a good price for that truck.

He said thats what He has into it.

I need to sit down with Him and come upon some kind of an agreement.

I did check with the auto insurance, liability alone is slightly more than $100.00 a month.

[MrMarty51]

when I point, narrow section of the trail and a mighty steep cutbank with a long way to the bottom.

I asked My son if He wanted to drive it on down.

His wifey standing there, No, I’m not taking a chance of loosing My husband on his birthday.

Me and My thoughts:

OOOPS, I better do something about that. 😹

[MrMarty51]

 

Rollers rolling. Track to chassis needs some lube.

 

https://youtu.be/xFJx28xYm-U?feature=shared

[MrMarty51]

The dozer blade hydraulic control valve is leaking quite bad.

Is that mainly standard O-Rings inside of those ?

If not is kits available for them ? 

[jeeper61]

Sounds good looks like it is steering and brakes well congratulations you hit the jackpot.

If you can't find a kit for the valve you should be able to find the orings by the measurements.

Did you get to a place where it can be picked up?

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

You won’t find a kit, unless it’s been sitting on a shelf for decades. Just take it apart and see what’s in there. Caterpillar bought Bucyrus-Erie. You could go to the local Cat dealer if you want to get some blank stares. 

[MrMarty51]

2 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

Sounds good looks like it is steering and brakes well congratulations you hit the jackpot.

If you can't find a kit for the valve you should be able to find the orings by the measurements.

Did you get to a place where it can be picked up?

Closer to a good loading grounds.

I’m going to check with Roundup Powder and see if they will allow Me to come in through a gate in their fence.

if so then a transport truck/trailer can pull right into there, turn around and load up.

If they wont allow me to trespass onto their property then it will be a ways if leapfrogging tires for 100, maybe 200 yards.

But just on one track.

Some of the tires I had was 10 ply larger pickup tires.

If I have to leapfrog tires again I’m getting smaller lighter tires. Much easier to shuffle.😹

[MrMarty51]

The river is the Yellowstone River at Miles City.

That bridge is the crossing on state highway 59 North to Jordan Montana.

My dwelling is about two blocks kitty corner to the right, and farther from the river, of the lower end of the bridge.

I call it the Tongue River Delta Bottom.

Tongue River enters the Yellowstone less than a mile from my house.

[hardtail]

Worked out fairly well, steel tracks are squeaky and noisy

Gary and Anson are likely discussing the polka dot cap🤣