Would the load require a pilot car? Maybe. Its almost all desert four lane and freeway to the job so no particularly narrow or low weight limit bridges. If the blade has to come off it may be able to go on a conventional lowboy at a more competitive price. If I bought it I would probably pull the ripper off right there In CA and send it directly to an auction or even directly to the scrap. That's purchase price, taxes, and shipping included. Its guaranteed to rain so the work will be ongoing for years and can be over a large scale, depending. And how good a set of tracks we start out the job with. How long that is depends on Mother Nature and how much rain fall we get. that's just the way it is when you use a dozer in the environment. Ultimately the terrain will grind the tracks off and it will suffer the same fate as the D8. Whatever dozer we get will never leave that ranch alive. Whoever has this dozer has done exactly what I was unwilling to do the D8 to keep using it. It was the tracks and the under carriage that spelled its doom not total time. For all I know that old dozer could have had 100,000 hrs on it. The old engine and even the pony engine ran great to the day I traded it off. We used that old cable operated Cat in that rock and stone until the sprockets and tracks were completely worn out to the point they were in danger of falling off. The job involves heavy rock and stone movement, the same work, same place I used the D8 for. Buy a smaller newer machine and cost yourself down time, job takes lots longer to do and isn't done as well and you could work it death and you start right back to where you started from in just a few years. Newer machines of the same size with lower hours cost mucho more dinero, mucho. IF what the seller claims is true, then its a whole lot more machine for the money. That's absolutely right and exactly why this machine caught my attention.