Came across this in the The Dirt spring 2017. Preserving a legacy from the ground up the 570 motorgrader. https://www.deere.com/en_US/industry/construction/our_offerings/cer_archive.page Interesting that in the same issue they write about "the power to see through iron and steel " and the upcoming data revolution complete with diagram of the "services process" starting with the machine health monitoring center.
Interesting. Cat recently did an ad on how the parts are still available for this 1949 or something generator at a dairy farm or something. Yet in this Deere publication they make no bones about how parts were not available. And in the power to see through article they have a heading that says "uptime is everything", I guess the writers of these pieces did not consult with the engineers or higher ups....
My 570A is "Obsolete" according b to the parts guy, but somehow parts are still found. I think that they must have made several hundred thousand or more with only slight changes though the A model. Plenty of them available on line. BTW, I think these were the first articulated graders. They probably got the basic concept from Austin Western. I'm guessing the original purchase price was around 50K or less. Sure is pretty when it's all new like.
wow, nice job they did on the resto...
I saw it at ConExpo. They did a really nice job. Just some facts, Back between 1993 and 1996 Champion looked seriously into trying to develop a 570 size motor grader. When Deere stopped production they were building around 500 units per year. The estimated market share has kept the big manufacturers from attempting it. LeeBoy has one and we built a prototype and pre production unit before we had to shut down the project due to lack of funds. Our pre production unit was sold and ended up in Mexico. I have enough parts and finished assemblies to almost build another one. Maybe one day. Another interesting fact is that despite being out of production for decades there is still a huge demand for a used 570. We used to track UCC filings and around 10 years ago people were actually financing hundreds of them every year. If you could reproduce it today for the same cost you would have something. Unfortunately the overall cost in todays prices puts it close to the cost or building a much larger grader.
Interesting that they even mentioned some of the parts were too expensive! Maybe JD should look into their parts prices. Nice to see they restored it to original condition instead of the long forgotten and ill conceived Chip Foose 4020. That was more vandalism than restoration. The other odd thing is apparently JD doesn't keep old manuals and literature for their machines. As far as older machines and parts Cat is clearly a cut above JD. I know some of the parts for JD crawlers built in the mid to late 80's are obsolete.