I worked 33 yrs in the CAT Plant in Decatur, IL where the motor graders started in 1955. Later I was a line supervisor on the motor grader line before they changed to cell construction. We were bldg 17 to 21 per day on the old pull change assembly line. I drove some of the graders in plant but never got to move dirt.1!! They acquired the first #12 and kept in on display till they moved motor graders to Little Rock, Arkansas. Great machines!!!!! Thanks for the video.
I drove both a 17K and a 21F Cat for quite a few years. They were very hard working and dependable. The G series just took out the hard work for the operator when they came into production and were so versatile, but the 12E graders are legendary.
No thanks, I have had my share of stuff that is so much work to operate. New equipment is ergonomically designed to exert but a fraction of the physical demand placed on a guy in comparison to the old stuff. I have seen the progress of equipment over the last forty years. It is amazing what Cat has done. Loaders which do not bounce inside the cab, graders with no steering wheel and have only two joysticks for doing what took so many levers to operate before. And I thought the G model graders were such an improvement!
I love these old girls...I started out many years ago, as a kid on a Gallion DD and stepped up to this model about 18 months later. I reckon that when you can final trim at + or - 10mm in one of these, the rest comes real easy. I'm 71 now and wish I was still doing it.
We had a 12 just like this.. like a '57 or '58. Grandpa bought it in 1970 and converted everything to hydraulic. He would finish waterways with it after using his cable D7. Had a straight pipe on it that sounds exactly the same here.. when that thing would bog down, man that thing sounded awesome and LOUD!
Awesome! Just got done with an 8hr day of running a 1950s cat #12, grading an old berry field for greenhouses to go on, long, lound day but fun, although hands are ready for a brake (the clutch style control engagement and old nobs gets painful)
As a guy who operated fine graders for years, bluetopping is easier because you know exactly how much you need. It is hitting the top of the hub with the cutting edge without tearing it out, not all can do that. GPS has taken the skill out of it...I think. I have been retired for 12 years.
@@jimmychanbers2424 What? The GPS -would undercut the grade? Maybe the GPS was not set up right? I do not know as this technology came down the grade, after my time. We did it all by the trained eye.
Just got a cat 12,set#8t15671, been sitting for twenty years, got it to start, sounds great,doing brakes now.learned on one thirty years ago, got some work for it, now it's for the fun of it.
I've never operated a new one like the M. I wonder how many of the electronic ones will be running when they are as old as this one. I ran a 212, and it still worked great. I liked the option of standing up to help my legs during the day. I wonder how the kids running the new 140M models are going to do after they get to 60 years, and can't stand up to run one. I will say it would be nice to have a heater when moving snow. Ours didn't even have a cab.
Leroy Bullied, I doubt if hardly anybody knows what yer talking about. Everybody didn't have a feel to operate a grader back years ago. Wonder how many folks even know what blue topping is now days. Now that separated operators from cowboys.
Nonickname I used to work road construction in Portland Oregon and Vancouver Washington; I'd bet you're right on the blue top comment. I never ran grader, I was the grade checker.
Richard Nelson I remember watching these road graders as we called them when I was a kid. First one I ran was a 12 in 74 and I learned right quick to give those great operators my greatest respect. Learned a lot from operating and listening to great operators.
No shit! They show up with their little 20 week college ticket and want a brand new machine and 30 bucks an hour. They pout when I tell them to jump on the packer
Poor bastid what’s that 16 in. Minus, every one of those Huber’s will have a nice pot hole around them the next rain, but if they can afford to screen it, he doing a great job with it
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+Cuatro Brown because when you run something wide ass open they last half as long. hence this machine is over 40 years old still working like its supposed to you wont see any of this new equipment because operators like you run it on the governor and the machinery last no time.
yes i know they are run full throttle but last half as long. its all about getting it done as soon as possible thats why all the old equipment if you see it on a job site its rare because its slower than the new stuff. but you wont see a new piece of machinery in 40 years still running.
I worked 33 yrs in the CAT Plant in Decatur, IL where the motor graders started in 1955. Later I was a line supervisor on the motor grader line before they changed to cell construction. We were bldg 17 to 21 per day on the old pull change assembly line. I drove some of the graders in plant but never got to move dirt.1!!
They acquired the first #12 and kept in on display till they moved motor graders to Little Rock, Arkansas. Great machines!!!!! Thanks for the video.
I drove both a 17K and a 21F Cat for quite a few years. They were very hard working and dependable. The G series just took out the hard work for the operator when they came into production and were so versatile, but the 12E graders are legendary.
I run a 1946 cat 12. Still does the job, runs like a top and is my favorite piece of equipment to operate.
No thanks, I have had my share of stuff that is so much work to operate. New equipment is ergonomically designed to exert but a fraction of the physical demand placed on a guy in comparison to the old stuff. I have seen the progress of equipment over the last forty years. It is amazing what Cat has done. Loaders which do not bounce inside the cab, graders with no steering wheel and have only two joysticks for doing what took so many levers to operate before.
And I thought the G model graders were such an improvement!
wow
Great job. Love watching the older equipment at work. Good for the soul.
New operator should learn from the old machine
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I love these old girls...I started out many years ago, as a kid on a Gallion DD and stepped up to this model about 18 months later. I reckon that when you can final trim at + or - 10mm in one of these, the rest comes real easy.
I'm 71 now and wish I was still doing it.
That looked like a lot of fun. Nothing like the sound of a Cat 12.
We had a 12 just like this.. like a '57 or '58. Grandpa bought it in 1970 and converted everything to hydraulic. He would finish waterways with it after using his cable D7. Had a straight pipe on it that sounds exactly the same here.. when that thing would bog down, man that thing sounded awesome and LOUD!
Awesome! Just got done with an 8hr day of running a 1950s cat #12, grading an old berry field for greenhouses to go on, long, lound day but fun, although hands are ready for a brake (the clutch style control engagement and old nobs gets painful)
As a guy who operated fine graders for years, bluetopping is easier because you know exactly how much you need. It is hitting the top of the hub with the cutting edge without tearing it out, not all can do that. GPS has taken the skill out of it...I think. I have been retired for 12 years.
Same here. We never had GPS on our jobs. Lots of times they undercut too much
@@jimmychanbers2424 What? The GPS -would undercut the grade? Maybe the GPS was not set up right? I do not know as this technology came down the grade, after my time. We did it all by the trained eye.
@@huckstered I think they meant because they did not have GPS, they undercut 👍
Yep !!
@@sunsetranch9780 Yep what?
I have operated the #12 Cat blade.. They were a good motor grader in it's time. This guy is a good blade operator..
Just got a cat 12,set#8t15671, been sitting for twenty years, got it to start, sounds great,doing brakes now.learned on one thirty years ago, got some work for it, now it's for the fun of it.
When I was a kid they worked the roads once a month with these.
The main highways were the only paved roads back then.
Right what told my grandpa. A grader cat has no end. I remember this machine when I was a child... now I am 57...
Yep. We always said we had a bubble in our butt. Never the less I ran the motor grader standing up instead of sitting on my ass.
Just keep practicing you’ll get it . Thats a handy machine for making roads
you got a lot of old cats....keep up the good work!!!
Looks like one of the old bivwac roads we used to train in back in my Army days at Fort Polk !
Nice job by the operator especially with the ungrizzled material he had to work with
Engine sounds extremely cool!
Are you still alive today?
Love the old cats nothing like them takes me back to the good old days yall
I believe we are few operators who can manage to operate this CAT 12o old model .l did my training in this grader and long time operating it
Saw these buggers back in the early seventies I think. Unmistakable sound of one working
A grader is probably gonna hardest piece of equipment to master. That operator makes it look easy
These old machines can still do a lot of work!!!
Hard to believe that was the best of the best in it's day...
a cat is always the best of what ever day it was made.
grader is very important to road works
Me lo juras wey ??😑
I remember being a 5 year kid riding along with my dad. The feedlot / ranch i grew up on had one. I wish i could have kept it
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12 years old video but the quality is awesome
She may be old but will get the job done!
there is some large rocks for road grade. I remember being the one to go and grab the large stone and toss them in the ditch when I was a kid
you can make it a race track in a few more hours with that grader. i have a 12 and it works pretty good.
Looking at the vegetation looks like North Texas, around DFW area.
Reminded me that a plant hire firm I worked at, used to have a Blaw Knox grader. Must be fairly rare, can't find one on here.
Never even heard of a Blaw Knox grader.
@mog5858 Those set of tires were up on 12 years ago.
Operator's needed to be an octopus great video good for the soul
He has got the front wheels leaning the wrong way.
Plus the front tires are on backwards.
i'v operated these old knuckle busters
graders have come along way there
more operator friendly the M models
are like the cadillac of motor graders
I've never operated a new one like the M. I wonder how many of the electronic ones will be running when they are as old as this one. I ran a 212, and it still worked great.
I liked the option of standing up to help my legs during the day. I wonder how the kids running the new 140M models are going to do after they get to 60 years, and can't stand up to run one. I will say it would be nice to have a heater when moving snow. Ours didn't even have a cab.
Junck. 140 g is the best. Any operator knows that
People say the front tires should be on with the tread, facing backwards for better traction on inclines
Thanks for the video! Where is this?
That's how I learned at 15 standing up on a old 12 f knuckle buster
the laser is in the seat of your pants or in this case your shoes and the hydraulics are in your biceps.
Thank you for sharing-Awesome!
Need to tilt steering tires to help counter the side ways push of the of the cutting blade.
Use your lean wheel for stability on long side hill cuts.
Este fue mi primer vídeo que me ayudó aprender a trabajar
I remember operating one of these many years ago they were a hand full but did a awesome job if you knew how to get by with the old girl
Each click the blade made while raising was a hundredth.
Smoothing out a thick layer of gravel or rubble would be more use if it rains.
MAN!!!!,,THEM OLD MOLDBOARD WOULD KICK LIKE MULE,,,SWEET SOUNDING OLD D-318 THO!!!!
Good job. Is it a Cat 12 8T?
Hello my friend, I wish you health and safety. Are there schools to teach the operation of these machines? How much are the wages per hour? Thank you.
That's my next toy. I'd like one a bit smaller though.
@joecool248 When the tires lean left \\\\ or right //// to turn sharper.
and counteract the side draft when blade is rotated.
Wheel to heel
Leroy Bullied, I doubt if hardly anybody knows what yer talking about. Everybody didn't have a feel to operate a grader back years ago. Wonder how many folks even know what blue topping is now days. Now that separated operators from cowboys.
Nonickname I used to work road construction in Portland Oregon and Vancouver Washington; I'd bet you're right on the blue top comment. I never ran grader, I was the grade checker.
Could you explain what blue top is? Please?
Blue topping done after the blue topped stakes are driven down to grade level. Grader operator grades to the top of the stake for final grade.
Aircraft runways are also graded to the top of the steel pegs. You just have to expose the top of the peg without pulling it out of the ground.
That's a stand up only machine lol,, doing a great job rocks and all
beautiful outfit ....
very good job!!! not easy with no laser and no hydraulic *****
dahlia1925?
The old knuckle buster,. All live gears in the controls. Now it is all electric over hydraulic control.
Nice videos 👍👍👷
Thank you very much!
Many so called "operators" of today, wouldn't be able to start this machine, much less finish with it.
Richard Nelson I remember watching these road graders as we called them when I was a kid. First one I ran was a 12 in 74 and I learned right quick to give those great operators my greatest respect. Learned a lot from operating and listening to great operators.
Dell Sims Very true, I have worked with some very impressive blade operators, they finished without the use of GPS or other gadgets.
No shit! They show up with their little 20 week college ticket and want a brand new machine and 30 bucks an hour. They pout when I tell them to jump on the packer
I operated these 30 years ago many operators couldnt final trim road base with one this was the test of skill the old nuckel buster wrist slapper
Was faster to leave the blade up at night and tow start it the next morning.
Love those old AT12 knuckle busters..
So really why did you not start working from shoulder to center then move from center to shoulder to set a crown ?
@joecool248 Power steering with tilt .
DieselPowerTV. wheel lean. flip your front tires around and it will bite better in turns
Quand on a un bon conducteur on oublie l'engin merci pilote. C'est rare de nos jours trouvez des conducteurs pour ce genres d'engins
Os pneus dianteira estao virados , quando se trata de roda livre, tem que ser invertido, mais parabéns pela máquina.
Não entendo muito bem, mas realmente já vi em vários vídeos, de motoniveladora que os pneus dianteiros são invertidos. Uma pergunta, porque? Obrigado.
I was getting into watching that wish ther was more i mis having my grader
Sweet Ole girl!! but dam!! lol what a rock pile mess!! lol
Rocky ? On a scale of 1 to 10 that would be a 4....
CAT
Poor bastid what’s that 16 in. Minus, every one of those Huber’s will have a nice pot hole around them the next rain, but if they can afford to screen it, he doing a great job with it
beautifull machine
The front tires are on backwards
What are you going to do with the win row?That's the hard part!
windrow, Win row is where the old ladies in Vegas sit
Where you from? You use it the next time you blade. Duh
Front tire tread facing wrong way. On this old girl the front axle is only there to steer
Front tires are on backwards, need to flip flop
They are not
good job
SHOW. MINHA INFANCIA . VALEU.
you get new rubber for that ?
Isso sim era uma máquina de verdade
ótimo video.....
Salve amigo.
Acompanho seu canal.
Que magrela simples mais forçuda.
Falou man 👏✌😁
I hope you remembered to crown the road
Why. Crowning don't help at all
Gloriosa 8T
La mejor moto niveladora
Old school
cater pillar D6❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Swap the front ties. It bites better
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esa es 8t??
aaaaaah se me quedan "dormidos" los brazos solo verla........jejejejej
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no roller ? hope it don't rain it it be a mud bog lol
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Parabéns patroleiro vc é muito bom tem uma cidade chamada Adrianópolis pucha lá na enternet e vê essa cidade precisa de um patroleiro bom e vc é cara bom parabéns
Essa é a famosa arrebenta pulcera de realogio"engrenada"
Vieja y confiable 8T
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why no full throttle?
+Cuatro Brown because when you run something wide ass open they last half as long. hence this machine is over 40 years old still working like its supposed to you wont see any of this new equipment because operators like you run it on the governor and the machinery last no time.
yes i know they are run full throttle but last half as long. its all about getting it done as soon as possible thats why all the old equipment if you see it on a job site its rare because its slower than the new stuff. but you wont see a new piece of machinery in 40 years still running.
do what you want i fix equipment 6 days a week. more money in my pocket.
good for you
balls to the wall. ideling and lugging a diesel is it's worst enemy.
Try "windrow".
ME PARECE QUE DEIXOU DE DEIXAR A RUA, COM ACLIVE E DECLIVE NA VOLTA.
nato1968fm e o pior e que deixou mesmo,kkk.
I like it verry much
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Где же они раритет токой то нашли а в итоге хорошая штука для своих лет
Wes kasar suara ne kui pak de, ngerti ngono pun di gas ae
Крутой, простой, надежный!!!
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Motorgradeer.good