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it is a john deere 550b i guess b is for backhoe????

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fhdesign

Never have seen one of those backhoes mounted to a dozer just on loaders around here.

firemike

Never saw a Deere like that, WOW. I remember years ago one of my grandfathers friends had a Case that had a backhoe attachment mounted on it, figured it was something they cooked up during their long, cold winter boredom until he told me it came from teh factory like that. (My grandfather had a machine shop that repaired heavy equipment and some highly imaginative friends so strange things did happen to equipment occasionally...) It was a decent sized dozer, I think it was an 650 or 850. Kind of cool I thought, but thought the stabilizers were kind of funny-looking on the machine, can't imaging needed them, but they must have left them because they were already part of the attachment.

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denick

John Deere offered backhoe attachments like that on 350, 450, and 550 bulldozers and tracked loaders for many years, not a common thing but there are a fair amount out there. Kind of a clumsy set up but they did dig fairly well.

The B just stands for a model improvement. If you are thinking of buying a 550 do some asking around. I didn't own one but I know a few people who did and there was a transmission problem with some of them that was very expensive.

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mdshunk

That would probably be a nice trenching/pipeline machine.

rino1494

I have seen them quite a bit on loaders, but never on a dozer. They are pretty common with the farmers around here.

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