Went out to a junkyard full of crawlers N of Spokane, hoping to find a pan seat and spring for the project. All they had was tattered upholstered junkers in a pile, but.....wait......
Two HG/ OC-3?'s sitting way back at the fence. None of this stuff seems to have run in years. These two were close to complete. The OC had a nice little Weldco blade. He wanted 75 bucks for the pan seat and spring. I declined. I asked him, just for drill, "what kind of money you talking for the whole tractor?"
THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!!
:o
Yeah, out west here Oliver crawler parts go for more money than they do in the east. Not unusual to see good seat springs go for $50.00 and about the same for a good condition seat. The 3500.00 for the whole scraped tractor is a bit criminal.
By the way, Do you have an address or name of the yard there in Spokane? I'm out that way a couple times a year to visit family. Might be a great way to waste some time.
BOY it's been awhile since I was out there. (Posted in 2009) I actually had to "fly" a little in Google maps to find what I thought was it
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=47.743644,-117.366544&ll=47.743463,-117.366018&spn=0.001075,0.003007&num=1&t=h&z=19&layer=t&lci=com.panoramio.all
Norcan Parts & Equipment - 9423 N Market St Spokane, WA, 99217
If the map link works, the cletrac(s) was in that last line out on the NE end of everything
Better picture from Bing Maps, best I can do, "Birds eye" doesn't work in that area My recollection is that there was two or three Olivers up in the far upper right of this shot.
(http://i52.tinypic.com/241uq9i.jpg)
Wow, Somehow I missed your reply. I'm just now finding this. Thanks for posting. This place is only a couple miles from my sons place. It'll give me an excuse to escape next time I'm in town. ;D