What's cheap?

Does it move?

Good auction...



Picked her up cheap... Wish me luck.

Can't see a decal and don't know enough to make an educated guess. D6?

$4k

Track loaders have kind of lost ground in sales the last 30 years, but when you need one...nothing works as well, building demolition with rebar tangles come to mind. If that is a 977L, the most popular size ever made, you could get darn near purchase price for the tracks...I notice the front idler is well back in the track frame, a sign of a lotta life left in the undercarriage. But a word of caution, if you have to go into the trans or cross shaft for steering clutches, brakes or worse, get rid of it quick. One of the most labor intensive surgeries on any Cat machine. The labor bill will exceed 4X the machine value. If you can find anybody that will work on it, same for 955 and 933.

Used to work for a Cat used parts dealer and we had people come in wanting to buy parts for final drives, steeing clutches etc. Tell them the price of the parts and they would say that was more than they paid for the tractor. Come to find out they bought the tractor so they could clear the property they just bought. I learned if I ever need dozer work to hire it done. Tractor repairs if needed was on their dime not mine.

Good tool for burying the FedEx man and his van. Do those things have GPS trackers?

Asking for a friend.

.I notice the front idler is well back in the track frame, a sign of a lotta life left in the undercarriage. But

The bigger question is, what's wrong with it?

How are you gonna get it home?

Be easy on him Cash

Good tool for burying the FedEx man and his van. Do those things have GPS trackers?

Asking for a friend.

Congrats Cash! The way I look at it , once you get 100 hours out of it your ahead. Old equipment has can have good value. Works out good too for guys that need them in occasion.

What a broke dick. Buying worn out equipment. Next thing you know he'll be siding the shack with T1-11!

LOL

A friend of a friend of the grandson of the lady that cuts my uncle's friend's hair...

Has a Cyber Truck... BY TESLA

Ballz calling ANYONE...

Repeat ANYONE "Brokedick"

Dude... I coined the very word in YOUR HONOR...

What a coincidence you live what you accuse others of doing.

Enjoy that dozer while the rest of enjoy smoked ribs on the barby.

LOL

Jackoff.

It's a Loader moron...

A Dozer has a straight blade...

Fugg... don't ya knows nudding?

I know you're fucqyued and I'm drunk!

LOL

Blah blah blah. I ain't the one that bought him a $4000 dozer LOL

Ballz meltdown in...

3...

2...

1...

BOOK IT!

i'm not the one who bought a $4k dozer!

I know you're fucqyued and I'm drunk!

LOL

Hello 24 Hour Campfire,

I am not at all at home here but it has come to my attention through a family channel that the man you all know as "Roy" (aka Fireball2) has been spinning quite the narrative for all of you. Normally I would not spend the time indulging the fantasy but after reading some of this I honestly cannot believe what I'm seeing. Truly the delusions of a man that has been spiraling for some time and has frankly reached the point I no longer recognize him.

First I guess an introduction is in order. I am the older sister he's shared so much about. As I said this is not a domain I naturally find myself in and as pathetic and disappointing as these falsehoods are I feel, for whatever reason, compelled to set the record straight. I will address the lies individually below, but first I think maybe some background is in order.

Reality is quite different from what has been put forth thus far. I assume many of you may have deduced this if you've spent any appreciable amount of time around my brother (virtual or not).

My brother is profoundly mentally ill. He was diagnosed in his early teens with bipolar disorder and has displayed wild swings and manic behavior with increasing intensity as he has gotten older. He is completely unmedicated and has not (to my knowledge) been under the care of a professional in many, many years. His personal relationships with family and friends have pretty much all degraded to the point they are beyond the point they can be salvaged. He is in his third marriage which has been failing for years. He has attempted suicide at least once that we know of. He claims Devine intervention in the form or mechanical failure in the firearm he was using. Fact is he was in such an altered state he was unable to function.

Our mother has been in a declining physical and mental state for several years. The mental degradation has really started to accelerate over the past 18 months and the fact is she is slipping to dementia. She is currently in a nursing facility and as a family (less brother) we would like to see her transition into a memory care facility for her own safety and specialized care it will provide. One guess as to the reasoning behind the dissenting opinion.

When our father was still with us all three siblings shared joint power of attorney. At some point during the aftermath of his passing our mother was coerced into consolidating all medical and financial power of attorney responsibilities to one sibling. Can any of you guess whom that would be? And thus started a slow trickle that turned into a flood. A flood that burst over the spillway. The slow motion disaster you are all now witness to.

I will summarize before taking on allegations point by point. My brother is not well. My brother has become such a master of manipulation and deception that he no longer knows what is reality, he is that invested in his twisting of the world to suit his agenda and self image. In the end this has become solely about money (meager as the estate will be) and power dynamics. It has torn apart a family. It has negatively impacted a mothers life and perception of the world around her as she struggles to retain her mental acuity. Real hero stuff.




30 years ago your disappointment may have meant something to myself or our sister - those days are long gone. Can you imagine the disappoint WE feel in our brother?

The abuse alleged - the result of our mother falling in home repeatedly as she walks with a staggering gait which is an issue in a home with multiple rugs, shag carpet, and 'vintage' bathroom facilities. The evidence? Heavy bruising (to be expected after falling in your 80's...) and a reluctance to discuss the circumstances with her son that does not miss an opportunity to go off half cocked. She knows this. She has weathered the wild swings in emotion, the delusions of persecution, the delusional self righteousness for DECADES.

Well, this was the opening he had been waiting for to pull our mother from her town of many years, sell the home we grew up in to "fund care", and isolate our mother from the rest of her family. The original intent was to keep our mother in his own home. This quickly became tedious and she was placed in a LOVELY nursing facility. Quite the oxymoron. Good old 'Roy', he'd fight a grizzly for her - as long as it didn't interfere with recreation time. Or nap time. Or a midmorning snack.

Bad guy? No. Not my little brother. Never.



Our heads are clear, we refuse to indulge your fantasy or placate your fragile emotional state any longer. Our one wish is to have our mother safe and happy for the remainder or her time on earth. This is now in doubt. Who did that? Who needs to remove their head from their upper colon?



On this we agree, our mother is a strong woman. She was the glue that held the family together for many, many years despite the CONSTANT prying force that was her son. It really does break my heart that she has never been able to quit you. Lord knows you haven't earned her steadfast support and devotion, but that really is a testament to what a devoted mother she is.

I told myself going into this that I would stay above it all and take the high road but as I sit here and write I'm overcome with "I don't give a F anymore". You want to talk rebellion and disappointment 'Roy'? Next time you find yourself trying to sleep and quiet your thoughts think about the disappointment out father must have felt in you the months before he died. Then understand you're feeling but a drop of water in the ocean compared to what he went through.



Delusional narrative. Completely isolating your mother and attempting to create a state of total dependency is why you ARE, truly, the bad guy in this story of your own making.



My mother did support and care for my children while I went through a tumultuous divorce. She knows that it was the single greatest gift she has ever given me and will never be forgotten. Her grandchildren love her. They also live out of state. It also became an impossibility for them to stay in touch when you uprooted their grandmother, cancelled her cell phone plan and provided her with a track phone while withholding the number from any of her family and failing to put any of theirs and our contact information in the new device. Can we say calculating and manipulative? Oh, it was impossible to send cards to the care facility you parked her in without anyone else's knowledge for MONTHS.

What an amazing lack of self awareness to bring our children into this. How much have you shared with the class regarding the current state of your blended family? Anything you can think of off the top of your head? How is the youngest anyway?



As to the allusions of my sister and I running and hiding from the wrath of Roy, well, don't believe everything you read folks. We are easily found and my phones is always on. Pending legal action precludes me from disclosing details of our mother's future, things will be changing and I'll leave it at that.






To all the folks that have endured this airing of dirty laundry regarding the Fireball2 extended family issues I thank you and I apologize you've been thrust into the middle of it. I hope you all take this for what it is. As they say, you really don't know who is on the the other side of the screen on the internet. If you take nothing else from all this let me impress upon you one last time - with 'Roy' you really don't.


No doubt "Fireball2" will pen a scathing reply tomorrow when he wakes up sometime after 9:00 (has he ever told you about the long weeks he puts in at work?) Know that I will not be reading it Roy. You have my number. You know where to find me. I don't think we're in any danger of you becoming a man anytime in your 6th (OR 7th) decade here on this earth though.

Or the pins and bushing are wore so bad someone took a link out of the chain to take the slack out.

What a coincidence you live what you accuse others of doing.

This ^

It's been on runout for quite some time. If I know it's intended purpose, it's bought right.

Yo ain't drunk...

You are just plain stupid...

24/7/365

Whats scrap steel going for in West Virginia. Sure don't look like four grand worth in that pile!

Pics are smaller (lower resolution) after the auction closes... but here they are anyway... if y'all see anything else. https://www.proxibid.com/lotinformation/83414096/caterpillar-977k-track-loader

Depending on condition after I pick her up... she will be used mostly to load out shale borrow on my land to truck to other locations.

If she is very strong/fixable... 50,000 pounds is a lotta mass to grub. (other than a missing tooth... the bucket looks good to me.

If she is more trouble than she is worth... I will part out or scrap... or sell to someone else that wants to mess with...

This is the machine I was HOPING to get for the rock base I have everywhere... but she went too high for me... https://www.proxibid.com/lotinformation/83396945/komatsu-d155ax7-dozer

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Edit... Better resolution pics in this CAT 977K Link

Thanks be to God my 977 days are long behind me :-) my whole body hurts just looking at that damn thing :-)

I still have two of them. 14x series machines.

I'm drunk!

LOL

Thanks be to God my 977 days are long behind me :-) my whole body hurts just looking at that damn thing :-)

Why? They aren't hard to run. Once your legs get used to pushing on the steering brakes, their weight makes for a decent ride.

First of all, I’m 63 years old. :-) they’re loud, there more work for the operator than a rear engine track loader.if it’s not air ride seats and not rear engine I’m not interested :-) Over the years I’m sure I have thousands of hours in a 977 and similar type track loaders. you can’t kill the damn things I’ll give them that like I stated earlier they are very robust machine.. Where I work you don’t see them anymore. I haven’t seen one in probably 10 years. When I retire which is shortly, maybe I’ll go down and visit cash and play with it for a little bit :-)

Of course you are welcome BamBam...

But I highly recommend you take a foreign language course first... Redneck Appalachian with WV dialect is offered online many places.

Also... I will mail you a WV license plate fo yo truck. 80/20 chance it will save yo life.

Pretty sure K's and all L's were pedal steer... girls can do it.

We spoiled today heated seats, air seats, ride control soundproof cabs, beautiful stereo systems with Bluetooth. Big difference from the older machines…

My 997k don't have Bluetooth?

What the hell... fugg that.

Who the hell needs Bluetooth when you have ac ,right, you do have AC? Lol.