1950s HIGHWAY / FREEWAY CONSTRUCTION FOOTAGE CAT D9 BULLDOZER, 633C ELEVATING SCRAPER XD42255
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This untitled, uncredited black-and-white silent home-style movie chronicles the process behind constructing a highway and connecting roads. Likely dating to the late 1940s or early 1950s, the film, which is set in a rural area of what is likely the United States, depicts the different steps behind constructing a highway from clearing the land to pouring and flattening the concrete. The film features lots of scenes of the machinery involved from what appears to be a CAT 633C Elevating Scraper to a CAT D9 Track-Type Dozer among others.
Film opens, aerial view from small plane of agricultural farmland below; Close-up of highways running through vast fielded areas (0:08). Partially cleared field, what appears to be CAT 633C Elevating Scraper drives over soil (1:02). CAT D9 Track-Type Dozer follows a CAT 633C around field area (1:42). Young boy stands to the side and excitedly observes the large tractors at work, runs into field and climbs into the CAT D9 (1:50). Close-up as perhaps father shows young boy how to operate the machinery (2:16). Number of tractors, bulldozers, and earthmovers drive through flattened area, move and overturn soil (3:26). Shot of cement plant seen across the road, cement kiln towers over 1940s/1950s-era cars parked nearby (4:31). Crane guides scoop shovel down into gravel, gravel dropped onto loading hopper, falls onto truck waiting below (4:48). Scene changes to beginnings of highway being paved, area packed with various pick-up and construction trucks, workmen set down wire screens and heavy steel track across road; Hammer in big steel stakes to hold track (5:07). Bucket attached to pulley system and concrete mixing truck drops concrete mix along road (5:32). Machine that cuts grooves into concrete (6:14). Young boy from earlier runs across work area and climbs into what appears to be similar to Adams 1950's Motor Grader (6:24). POV from driver’s seat as motor grader drives along worksite (6:05). Return to aerial view, shots of completed highways and stretches of road winding through rural area (6:55). Film ends (7:56).
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Brought tears to my eyes seeing that operator let that boy ride on the push Cat, My dad and uncle did the exact same with me! What good times!!
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It’s so cool how all the workers treated that little boy. That’s how we get kids interested in good stuff like hard work and machines. Unfortunately, that would never happen today.
Shake Hands with Danger.
Change of attitude needed
If that young boy is still alive today, he still remembers getting to run that bulldozer. Greatest part of the entire video.
When little boys grew up to be men!! Now some dont even know if they are a boy or a girl! Sad how people/parents have changed!
Such a nice maschines, without any electronic control units and another unnecesarry electronic junk
The time was circa 1955, the location was California 101 freeway at the intersection of the 405 freeway just south of the Sepulveda dam. as a young boy of 10, I lived just a couple of houses south of that location on Haskell Street. I used to watch for hours as scrapers would bring in dirt, while bulldozers would spread it, pulling a giant sheep‘s foot roller. It was fascinating to watch and to this day every time I drive along that stretch straight of the freeway I think about that time back in the 50s.
When men were men, boys had a hands on window to the world and diesel exhaust was the sweetest thing you knew
I was 10, watching a D9 working in a gravel pit. The driver called me over and asked my name. Turns out he knew my dad. He asked if I wanted a drive. Me ,driving a huge D9. '' yes sir'' away I went. Best afternoon ever.
The Caterpillar D9 of yester year is about the same size as a Caterpillar D6 of today
I remember I-65 coming through Bartholomew county in Indiana. We walked out there and watched those guys build that road. Big stuff when you're 6 years old!
Columbus? Cummins Headquarters!
@@baratariaelectric2415 Yes exactly CNHS 1975. Dad worked for Cummins for forty-four years.
I wonder if the boy became an Operating Engineer.
I'm sure that those experiences influenced him to become an operator. He definitely showed interest, and it was so good of those operators to nourish his interest! He got to see a lot watching the process of raodbuilding.
I sure hope so, he had been instructed on “being careful” when climbing up to watch and learn. I sure appreciate y’all posting this
Another heavy equipment kid,and associated railfan,as a youngster,(about 9/10),rode a bulldozer battery box,learned much! Later, I had a friend who ran the local railroad interlocking tower,in my home town,even got a cab ride,in a Fairbanks-Morse C engine,rode like a brick! Add,my father,was a flight engineer for PanAm,so I got to see aircraft,really up close! So,engineering is still in the blood,and the experience is for a lifetime! Thanks! Thank you 😇 😊!
Back in the day when it was cool to have little kids running around construction sites!
Aye, inspiring the next generation of machinery operators and collectors.👍🏻
And Engineers.
Yes, that would be me. And, I got some rides on machines when an expressway was being built in my neighborhood. Those early rides got me interested in heavy construction, that I am interested in to this very day. Back then, if you showed interest, operators wouldn't give a second thought to have you up in a machine while they operated it, and explained how they work and what they were doing. Today, that is frowned upon, and due to insurance rules and possible lawsuits, that's a thing of the past. 70 years old, and I still have fond memories of those days.
After school and Saturdays I learnt more riding with all the operators of the machines than I did attending school, yes I graduated to a heavy diesel mechanic on site, enjoyed every day .
I find it fascinating how all the heavy machinery back then was run using cables and pulleys. Today it's all hydraulic which I'm sure is much lower maintenance.
During my younger years, I could watch heavy equipment for hours at a time. If you kept yourself at a safe distance, operators wouldn't mind but if you got too close, you'd hear, " Hey you kids! Get the %&* away from here!"
Now those men were operators! No cab, ac, no Bluetooth! 💪👍
No ROPs ether
And no AD blue or censors
Wonder president Eisenhower sent them to work building our freeways
Back when a kid could be on the job and nothing would be said my dad had me on all kinds of heavy equipment when I was little by the time I was his age I could run anything
As a kid in the early 60s they were building I 64 making the big cut down into new Albany I rode my bike out to watch them almost every day after a wile I got to ride on the dozers graders and those massive haul trucks along with being in the cab of the power shovels everything had the fuel pumps turned up and smoked like a freight train at night the flames would top the exhaust stacks was cool for a 13 year old kid I got to set off a shot one time by pressing two buttons at once. No Wiley coyote T type detonator lol
Cheap diesel and capable equipment gave us the modern highway/interstate system we have today. The first generation of US highways followed rivers and railroads, which back then led to many flooded roads. Until capable equipment showed up, then they could better engineer and build highways.
And the entire nation ended up with ruined and destroyed urban areas, as well as a trillion-dollar annual stuperhighway debt....
old cat looked prettey fresh
pity they dont allow the sound of the machinery.
As a child I'd seen MoAZ scrapers for several times. It was like something from sci-fi movies!
Man I wish these days were upon us again… technology is great but it sure has changed the world, not always in good ways
One word for this "CRAZYAWESOME"!!! I was born in '54, this was just a little before my time but a couple of my uncles worked on the I5 in the LA areas. Thanks for the post!
I too grew up in the business, my Grandfather was a general engineering contractor in the Bay Area in the 60's, I got to ride with the Low bed drivers, fuel trucks, mechanics and on the equipment, as a young boy. I am a third generation Operating Engineer recently retired HDR, and my Son is a forth generation Local 3 member, this trade has been very good to my family, thank you Papa for letting me hang around as a kid !
OSHA would have been squealing ........but great for the boy to experience the work hands on. Very cool .
Same exact equipment I remember as a kid when they built the highway in town. I would always go watch.
That first 3 minutes is so me as a kid it's not funny
Looks like U.S.75 in Dallas.
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Cute girl 00
So much was built in the past… today, it can’t even be renovated… such a shame.
lol, nowadays people think you are a sucker if you pay your taxes, literally the most patriotic thing one can do. smfh
It can, but you have to convince DoT to spend the budget on it
@@douglasharley2440 Not if those tax dollars ared wasted providing welfare for the rich....
@CraigFThompson that's not the only thing taxes are used for...don't make excuses.
@@douglasharley2440 "Make excuses"?! For WHAT?! I'm mentioning that a good portion of what we pay in taxes gets wasted on items that benefit only the corporations and politicians that're presently tangled up in a web of deception....
Generally, for that, we have sup'm known as the VOTE; however, the general public never has a chance to vote an a helluva lot these days----such "voting" is performed by politicians behind closed doors.
Would have been better, if the NOISE, you call Music was off & YOU TOLD FOLKS WHAT FREEWAY IT WAS & WHERE
I GIVE THIS VIDEO A 2.