Glen I'm not really satisfied the TD15 in my post had the engine cooked. I saw the work the borrower started, he basically finished what he was doing, with no trail of antifreeze. 1/2 mile in 3rd wouldn't take that long. The owner basically saw an opertunity to have an engine with several thousand hours rebuilt free of charge. He knew who he was dealing with and knew the guy had enough net worth to pay.
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.
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