I am looking to upgrade my dozer. I currently run a 04' D65EX-15 with 8200hrs, which I like and get along good with. I would like your thoughts on both of these dozers. I would even consider a Deere 850K, but know nothing about them. Thanks for all your help.
A lot of your choice IMO should depend on how good your local Cat/Kom/Deere dealer is for parts and service support for the model you are running or are thinking about running. No machine is going to do a job for you if it can't be fixed PDQ when anything goes wrong with it, as it undoubtedly will at some point.
It's going to be hard to beat a d65
especially a 6T..
Hi there I used to work for a guy that ran 8 D6's R&T's. I also know a few D65 users. The D6 is a different animal, heavier, more pwer, more traction. But will not travel as well on soft ground, they are a little heavy at the nose and well use more fuel than the 65. Personally I favor the Cat, but there is no doubt they are a more expensive tractor to run. Having said that the 65 is well put together, I have done 65 -12&-15 transmission's and final drives and there aint a thing wrong with em, though some of the -15 transmissions did fail at pretty low hours
Does anyone know of a web site or literature that compares the machines head to head?