Help Identifying International Bulldozer

Hey, I was surfing around and found this site while trying to identify the model of this tractor. If anyone could steer me in the direction of the model number, or a place where I might be able to find out the model I would appriciate it. We recently stumbled onto this fully functional dozer in an abandoned shed, it runs and the hydraulics work but it doesn't move forward or back. Any help would be apriciated.

I had a similar experience, selling saw logs to a mill doing the trucking. I had a snow covered hill that caused trucks some difficulty. If it was frosty enough they would make the grade without chains. To save them bothering with chains, my operator if close by would follow them up the hill pushing on back of load with John Deere power shift. Once he was not right there, truck had come down the hill backwards. My operator started down the hill towards him, hit the area where truck had been sliding with brakes applied. The John Deere started sliding, he couldn't get out of the wheel tracks. He dropped the forestry blade, applied down presure hoping it would slow him down. It did, but not enough, the horn of the log piling blade went into his grill and radiator. I turned it over to my liability insurance. A week later I got a call from my insurance, with a question. Is there anyway the horn of the skidder blade could have hit the end of the truck crank shaft. "He said they are trying to get a new Cummins engine out of us, do you have any photos taken at the scene." We didn't believe the blade horn designed for piling logs could have reached the crankshaft. However by that time bumper and attachments were all torched. The day of the accident, I would have said the truck bumper was little more than scratched thus horn couldn't have made contact with crank. My insurance decided to pay and not fight. He got his new engine, rad and bumper, I never sold him logs again. I do have a disposable camera in every vehicle since.

A bit of advice for would be operators of what may look like an abandoned machine. That 175 is not all that old in heavy equipment. I operated a Cat loader last summer about the same age and size. It was capable of drawing down same hourly rate as a new one. Crawler loaders are not in big demand these days, however there are some jobs they fit, and many get parked for months in between those jobs, yes if available, in what might look like an abandoned shed. Last I recall, those power shifts were about a $15,000, rebuild. Our freind in the photo could find himself on the hook for a transmission.

Back to the dozer, pulled the power shift in no. 1 let off the decellerator, headed for the low bed. As he approached the lowbed he depressed the decellerator, nothing happened, pulled it to neutral nothing happened. He panicked and jumped, broke his ankle on hard frozen ground. He lay in the snow and watched the dozer chew and spin for a bit as it came up against his truck cab. In the end the dozer preveiled taking cab, engine and transmission with it into a bog where it lost traction. He spend hours in the cold, cell phone gone with the cab. Finally co workers came looking for him.

They believe that machine had been tampered with. I know the company offered a reward to anyone who may have seen folks playing with the dozer. I never did hear the results. I can well imagine the bill on the Mack tractor, bringing in another mahine tow tow the first one out of bog, where it lost traction. Those things don't pull out of a bog very easy.

Your right, that building in the photo wouldn't slow the 175 down very much. There is a story around these parts about a John Deere A with a hand clutch. Grand father was putting it in the drive shed for the night, forgot about the hand clutch. His grand son claims the last thing they remember was the old man yelling whoa, damnit, whoa. Luckily yhe John Deere took the whole wall in front of it, roof stayed up and grand father was not hurt.

I once hired a bulldozer to build logging roads, near a lake with weekend cotages. Actually basically the same model, a TD15 The machine had just been in the shop the week before for a new water pump and rad, The operator noticed mid day Fri he had an anti freeze leak, and shut the machine down and went home. Upon arriving Mon. with a mechanic, they discovered the dozer had been moved. It had been to the lake, cleared a new cottage lot. Water pump came right off fan fell into the rad, deatroyed the rad. Then the good souls drove the machine 1/2 mile back to where they found it, and cooked the engine. The dozer owner was exactly 1 hour finding out who had his dozer. His cottage lot cost him $18,000., before lawyers were done with him.

Truth is in both cases only the owner or operator know why it was left as is and what may have been removed or be apart. Doen't matter how well you know the guy either. My brother who worked in the city, almost borrowed my 300 one night. Had it not been for the fact a neighbor of mine was with him who knew I had all the bolts out of the front bolster Fri. afternoon, he would have been out of the shop and down the road. We know how long that would have stayed together.

I believe your parking brake will be the problem.

Kind Regards,