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Originally Posted by Tellyshavilli

These machines were very popular in the early to mid 70s . We bought a 977 in 1985 redoing the Buffalo small boat harbor construction job , good machine for loading and it had a side dump for pipeline work over the years. Brought it home for a few weeks and used it to cut about 2 miles of trails in my property here ,thankfully the bucket had 1’ teeth on it .I was able to rip up roots brush what not . Also would take just about any trees down that we’re in the way due to its power and weight ,then take about a foot of topsoil out ,very difficult to grade with it since the bucket doesn’t tilt , got rid of it in late 90s. It did its job and became obsolete with all the rubber tired articulating loaders.

Great machine for taking down trees. Sounds like you got your money's worth out of it.