Well it was a long recovery with a few bumps but my m915 is finally home.
It was dragged out of a snow pile at fort drum and as usual someone with forklifts and no regard for old trucks did some damage. The maxibrakes were bent up a little and air lines,tailights and wires smashed. I ended up having a towtruck get it off the base and load it onto a stepdeck. So by the time I got it here I had doubled the gl price of $3600 for the truck. I figured I could get it here for around $1500 but the brakes being stuck on more than doubled my estimate. When the truck got here it had thawed enough that it was pretty greasy on top of frozen ground. The trucker wouldnt be able to get to my loading dock. We ended up loading my JD 450c crawler onto my 872a3 and backing it up to his stepdeck. I pulled the 915 up onto my trailer (mine was about 12 inches taller than his)off of his with the crawler. Then I drove back to my loading dock and pulled the 915 off with one of my extra 818 trucks. To move the truck off the trailer I had to take off the broken maxibrake line and replace it with the service line from the same brake. Then I hooked into my emergency air on another extra 818 truck. that allowed us to release the maxi brakes and pull away. Once I got the truck off I checked the fluids and tried to jump start it. The batteries were frozen and bulged so I pulled them and installed two new ones. I gave it a small shot of ether and hit the starter. It fired right up and ran great. I drove it around the section and other than the leaky diaphram in the broken maxi, it worked fine. All I have to do is straighten the brakes fix the tailights and replace one diaphram and air line on the bent brake and it should be ready to go. The only really odd thing is the window crank and mechanism seems to be missing on the drivers door. I also couldnt figure out the "no a/c" on the door. I thought it meant air cleaner but it has the aircleaner.
It was dragged out of a snow pile at fort drum and as usual someone with forklifts and no regard for old trucks did some damage. The maxibrakes were bent up a little and air lines,tailights and wires smashed. I ended up having a towtruck get it off the base and load it onto a stepdeck. So by the time I got it here I had doubled the gl price of $3600 for the truck. I figured I could get it here for around $1500 but the brakes being stuck on more than doubled my estimate. When the truck got here it had thawed enough that it was pretty greasy on top of frozen ground. The trucker wouldnt be able to get to my loading dock. We ended up loading my JD 450c crawler onto my 872a3 and backing it up to his stepdeck. I pulled the 915 up onto my trailer (mine was about 12 inches taller than his)off of his with the crawler. Then I drove back to my loading dock and pulled the 915 off with one of my extra 818 trucks. To move the truck off the trailer I had to take off the broken maxibrake line and replace it with the service line from the same brake. Then I hooked into my emergency air on another extra 818 truck. that allowed us to release the maxi brakes and pull away. Once I got the truck off I checked the fluids and tried to jump start it. The batteries were frozen and bulged so I pulled them and installed two new ones. I gave it a small shot of ether and hit the starter. It fired right up and ran great. I drove it around the section and other than the leaky diaphram in the broken maxi, it worked fine. All I have to do is straighten the brakes fix the tailights and replace one diaphram and air line on the bent brake and it should be ready to go. The only really odd thing is the window crank and mechanism seems to be missing on the drivers door. I also couldnt figure out the "no a/c" on the door. I thought it meant air cleaner but it has the aircleaner.
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That's one sweet tractor!