Interesting custom machine on eBay

[Kent 435]

Articulated, hydraulic 4 wheel drive mini-dozer... [img]http://auctionimages.net/xhost/images/fearstorm/bul8.jpg[/img] http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Dozer_W0QQitemZ7551033180QQcategoryZ92021QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[JP 0]

Wow...........

[comet66 0]

That's pretty cool!!

[Ronald Hribar 91]

close enough to me but seller will be gone while item is being sold. can not respond to e-mails about machine But he can collect payment and you pick it up someplace else ???????

[D-17_Dave 12]

Looks like a lot of left over parts from a scrapped out ditch-witch trencher.

[BigSix 0]

To me, with the hydraulic motors (all four wheels?) it seems too well-done. Similarly, the blade tilt cylinders look like such perfectly-sized, small-scale replicas that it looks "all of a piece" to me as opposed to "handmade," as the seller opines. I wonder if it was used in some mining operation, where there wasn't a lot of room. That or a defense contractor's solution to some classified problem we'll never hear about--lol! Hey...wait a minute! Kent found this, and Kent's an ex-military operative (and are you really ever "ex" if you're in the "alphabet soup" branches?):p? Maybe it was used to scrape the frost heaves out of the tunnels leading down to the large, two-man, sand-encased "eggs" that hang underground at nuke missle silos, where the two firing keys get twisted simultaneously, to intiate the launch sequence....:D Peter

[D-17_Dave 12]

And I thought I had an imagination.LOL

[Kent 435]

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Originally posted by D-17_Dave
And I thought I had an imagination.LOL

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Yeah... meanwhile anyone who's watched more than one episode of the X files would know that this is coming from a garage sale at Area 51....