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After sitting for more than two years and getting a new clutch, rebuilt PTO, and NOS tracks, the OC-6 is back up on the farm. Pictures coming after I get them reduced in size.

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Les

And then a little cleanup.  Les

Here is what the original machine looked like with the brush hog, it only had 8" tracks. Now they are 10", and longer. Here is a picture of the area after cutting. All the brush was between 1/2" and 1-1/2", some over 8' tall.  Les

Well the pictures show up sometimes. Clicking the red X, or the link and then open, will bring them up also.

Here are the extended track frames. I use this machine to brush hog a lot of low ground, so I wanted all the flotation I could get. It really turned out nice. It is now a 5 roller, with 37 pads. I bought a brand new set of military surplus tracks off ebay a year ago, they were 36 link, so all I did was get 1 link and roller for each side from Landis Zimmerman.  Les

Try again. Here are some pictures from the track pivot bushing replacement. I also flipped the sprockets from side to side. Les

How many post do I have to make before I can attach pictures? I can browse for pictures, and load them, but I don't see a way to attach them. Thanks

Les

I think that Landis Zimmerman still has some bare castings on hand yet. Last I knew, they were not machined.

Les Darsow

Well it has been a long time since I have been logged on. I lost my user name and password, couldn't get it recovered. Anyway I decided to just use my username from the IH crawler board, Red Wannabe. I see that all my old pictures are gone, probably lost links. An update on the OC-6. Last Oct I did a lot of brush hogging with it on some ground that is usually very wet. Still kept the tracks wet, but didn't get stuck. I couldn't drive in my same tracks twice. Some of the brush was 10 feet high, most around 6 feet. Some clumps so large that I had to put a track down the middle so the mover could handle it. When I was done with that I had to put in a new clutch and throwout bearing because the old throwout bearing was froze and wore off the clutch fingers. I also had to rebuild the PTO. When the DNR owned it someone must have driven through a steep ditch with a PTO implement attached. It jammed the PTO forward and broke out the back of the PTO case. They cobbled it up so it would work, but it leaked oil when run for hours on end. Solution, a used case and parts from an Oliver 770. As many of you know, the OC-6 is based on the Oliver 77 tractor, with an 88 transmission. In ordering parts I found out that since my crawler is a 1960, it used some 770 parts, as the 77 & 88 were already replaced by the 770 & 880. When I figure out how to post pictures again, I will give you some more updates.

Les Darsow