TD9

[Ethan Chamberlain]

Hello
I recently bought a TD9 international with a overhead loader
that runs on gas but not diesel. I gave 800 for it sight unseen.
Do you guys think I just screwed up? I am starting to get a
bit worried because I don"t want to be stuck with this
machine. I bought it with the plan to free up the plunger in the
pump and then resell it. Do you guys think I can get my
money back out of it? I have had a few WD9"s, but I have
never had a td9 before. What is a running machine worth?
What is a machine with the rear end out of it worth? Thanks

 

[gusbratz]

you did good, seems like most older stuff like that is going.... well i don't know if it is going..... but it is for sale for around scrap price or a little better if it runs and works. so maybe 1800-2000. with the rear end out? i don't know. seems like nobody but the scrapper wants to touch one once it dies. I think those loaders are heavy. but then you are going to have trucking to get it home, and parts to fix it and then you will have to price it to MOVE. not sit on the classifieds site for 10 years. But my knee jerk reaction is you should do allright.

 

[heavyhaulertoo]

I think it will weigh 10000 lbs. I dont like the scrap idea , make it run and use it!!

 

[Ethan Chamberlain]

I went to get it today, ended up screwing up the trailer, winch, and a battery. That loader is made out of 1 inch plate steel. Plus the previous owners made gards for everything out of half inch steel. The tracks didn't even have cleats on them, they were flat pads. In the end, I left with an empty trailer that is bent to hell and a burned up winch. I told the owner he could keep his cat. It was a nice machine under all that extra iron though

 

[gusbratz]

when i got my td6 we pulled it onto my freinds trailer with a 3 ton chainfall. it was a ton of work. took like 45 minutes taking turns pulling the chain. where is this machine if you don't mind my asking?

 

[jm.]

Here in Tennessee the thing would bring over 3 grand at the scrap place. Iron is $ 320 a ton right now. Lots of old non runners going in and some that even drive off the truck.

 

[gusbratz]

it's a shame . when you think about the time and energy it took to cast the parts at a foundry, finish machine the castings at the factory and then assemble and alighn everything it is an amazing amout of work. then someone who didn't have the ability or tools to do this traded a substantial amout of money (something they got for a similar amount of work in their own field) for this dozer. the amout of work it would take to rebuild the engine and drive train is not something to be taken lightly, but compared to the initial cost of production it is small. it is amazing to me how many large expensive items wind up in this shape out in a field. morter homes dozers ect. thing is the price of steel isn't high, it is the doller that is low. when this machine was built comeing out of WWII steel copper and iron were more scarce and in higher demand than they are now. Yet IH still produced a machine to the best of the engineering ability of the time without cutting any corners. but if you dont't have a job you need money I can see why people scrap them

 

[Ethan Chamberlain]

The crawler is near where I'm at here in NE Montana. If you
want his number, email me and I'll send it too you. After I had
some time to cool off about the trailer, I called the owner back
and said I'd be back in the spring to get it if he still has it
then.

 

[gusbratz]

too far for me, thats the spirt. rome wasn't builti in a day.