looking to put a blade on a d6b 44a. It has wide tracks. what are my options? Did 9u's have different width c frame based on tracks? Found an old c frame that I'm guessing is off a 9u but it is not near wide enough. measured a C frame on a d6d , perfect width.

My guess is you found a 'C' frame off an 8u series D6, a 9U series D6, 'C' frame should fit.

Wombat

Hi corncrusher, the D6 and D6B tractors were produced in two gauges. The D6 9U and the D6B 44A interchange, they are the wide gauge(74 inch) version. The D6 8U and the D6B 37A are the narrow(60 inch) gauge. The angle blade you need will have a S/N 16C1 to 16C5000 and also 16C5001 to 16C20328.
The D6C/D6D blades are too heavy for your D6B and about 2 inches too wide.
Craig

"seiscat" wrote:

Hi corncrusher, the D6 and D6B tractors were produced in two gauges. The D6 9U and the D6B 44A interchange, they are the wide gauge(74 inch) version. The D6 8U and the D6B 37A are the narrow(60 inch) gauge. The angle blade you need will have a S/N 16C1 to 16C5000 and also 16C5001 to 16C20328.
The D6C/D6D blades are too heavy for your D6B and about 2 inches too wide.
Craig

thanks for the info. mine is wider though. Yes the d6c and d6d blades are way over kill but our cat is 99 (give or take 1/2 inch) inches wide, the same width as the d6d that I measured. Did they make any frames that wide? serial number on machine is 44a5508 and we measure outside of track to outside.

"corncrasher" wrote:

thanks for the info. mine is wider though. Yes the d6c and d6d blades are way over kill but our cat is 99 (give or take 1/2 inch) inches wide, the same width as the d6d that I measured. Did they make any frames that wide? serial number on machine is 44a5508 and we measure outside of track to outside.

Many different widths of track shoes,so the official measurement is center of sprocket to sprocket. I believe in the time of the 9u D6 there were some track shoes that were to wide to be used with a factory blade.

"Ray54" wrote:

Many different widths of track shoes,so the official measurement is center of sprocket to sprocket. I believe in the time of the 9u D6 there were some track shoes that were to wide to be used with a factory blade.

That helps a lot, I hadn't thought of just having different width shoes. so it sounds like I would probably need to change those to fit a blade or come up with some other modification.