I ran a cable 2-U back in the 70's, did chaining, root plowing , stacking, pulled a roane disk/plow. and pulled a or letourneau scraper digging tanks in South Texas. great old tractors. wait till ya have a clutch link fire.
Since this one isn't going to get a lot of hours per year maybe we can avoid a clutch fire. It should be interesting to see how it works shearing the brush off frozen ground. There will definitely be some video when we start that. Thanks for watching and commenting. 👍
Boy oh boy, the fun begins!!! I CANT wait to see more of yall clearing with the ole girl!! Boy it sure does run smoothly!! Cody is like a machine working that pony motor😉😉 Smiling, thats what its all about😁😁😁😁😁 Thank you Mr Will!!
@@Pennies_on_the_dollar We're going to get the rest of the brush out of the current pasture and then the idea is when we get some frost in the ground to just cut the brush off at ground level across the ditch and create a new pasture that's good enough to run the bush hog on. There will be some clumps of big trees left in there for shade. The fence line path kind of exists already it just needs to be straightened out. The Pony clutch needs adjustment it was slipping when he switched to high speed with the fuel on. 👍🙂🇺🇸
Once it started, it sounded great. That made easy work of clearing those trees out. Going to have to find some work for it. Looking forward to seeing more of the beast.
@@pinesedgefarm1155 A few starting motor issues, mostly the clutch slipping, but I'm sure we can iron those out. I'm sure Cody is going to want to eliminate the rest of the brush in the east pasture while it's still dry. Seems like people are liking the dozer video so I'll have to make more.
Nice find Will! After your comment on my last video, I have been anxiously awaiting to see what you were hinting at. Your 40 was a hit in my last video. Several people have commented on it when I have run into them out and about.
So you live in Minnesota and have the typical cold winters like I was used to growing up in Washington state, cascade mountain range. I was born in forty nine, worked for dad and he bought a used 2U D8 dozer, that had pulled a scraper that was cable controlled so it had two winches on the back that mounted sideways for the controls on a scraper. Cat had discontinued that system and used just one winch to operate the cable blade on this slide shift transmission machine. I say all of this because when dad bought it, he made sure I was there to follow instructions to the LETTER. It had provisions for a electric start pony motor but fixing that part was going to raise the price significantly. You stood between the blade and radiator to hand crank the starting engine. Yes I know the differences between motors and engines, and this is not a english class, just information to what I remember being taught. I was dads mechanic and so even as young as I was, it was only a matter of time before expected to do anything asked. mechanics, fabrication, plumbing on fuel or hydraulics, the electrical components.... anything that was needed to be fixed on my dads logging equipment was my job. And at twelve, I was actually a lead mechanic for him. So be it, better than setting chokers in the brush, yet did that too if needed. I could do anything he did and anything a crew member did. I never questioned it but followed his instructions. You are starting this engine wrong. There is a fuel pressure gauge on the dash along with a oil pressure gauge. You have the pony motor going in the low position.... watch the fuel pressure till its in the operating position as well as when the oil pressure is up to where it is about middle of gauge. Now depending on age of machines seen many that had little to almost none oil pressure as they wore out. I took the side plates off of the side of the engines and rolled new incerts in rods on many of those engines, remember how much money we made then by chance as this is nineteen fifty eight, (1958) and right after the Korean conflict that later was declared a war. Money was thinner than soup you served your hateful mother in law. As you seen, it has a low, middle and then start position on the gear lever for the pony to main engine. Once engine was rolling easy enough, put into the middle position to turn faster the main plus get lub pressures and fuel pressures where needed. So unless colder than a mother in laws kiss, no need for starting fluid.... starting fluid really doesn't hurt or help much except to wash the oil off of cylinders if used way heavy. I assume by now that you think I am some kind of hateful kook and baned my comment. If not, there in Indiana, there is a shop called C&C Equipment. If you call them you will likely talk to "Uncle Scott who mans phone questions for some things, Clint owns and operates this business and his wife is the bookkeeper. his sons work part time when not in college or one just finished high school. They hands down are the best mechanics with parts galore for these machines. In fact just bought three no operating units of this era. They are quite friendly, fair, quick and knowledge is king in any kind of equipment. Yeah by now thinking this old man knows enough to get in trouble but couldn't pack your water bottle. You may be right, or ..... just trying to help it last longer and no I do not travel anymore, I am now so crippled up from laying under broken junk ... plus I swear way too much for the people around me.... mechanics normally are working alone and so a chipmunk won't complain
@@morgansword I appreciate the comments. I would have been disappointed if an old CAT mechanic hadn't told us we were starting it wrong. We are aware that we weren't going through the proper procedure but the starting engine clutch was slipping, the carb needs some work, and few other small issues. Once Cody gets these issues taken care of it should be able to start as intended. This one has been sitting 6 years because of the starting motor clutch issues. We did enough to get it on the trailer before they scrapped it. Stop by again sometime when we have a video of it doing a little work.
@@farawayfarm2520 I would not feel good about myself if I offended you in any way but felt you spent good money for a old machine that can be milked for a good many years if all the oils and filters are kept up on. This machine has filters where you least expect so get the proper manuals that show all of them. A total oil and filter change would cost more than spent for it so use a lot of discretion in what to change or not. Please keep a diary for days past and write dates of changes on filters or place on this machine. Trust me after a few months, things just are plumb forgot. I never learned to read or write for years but used my memory for torque spec's on things needed fixed. I knew my numbers as dad said it was all I needed to keep from being cheated out of your wages. A ten hour day in the early fifties and close to the sixties was around ten dollars or less a day. I would earn extra money for dad and family by shoveling gardens... around a quarter acre of ground in a town called Rockport. They named the town after all the rocks and a tea spoon of dirt ... hard dang work... I would shovel their whole garden plot for three dollars a day plus a homemade sandwich and coffee. this is a can see to can't see day. I woke up the rooster leaving for work.
@@morgansword I'm never offended by someone who knows something about a machine trying to be helpful. I'm glad you found the video. Keeping good service records is definitely a good idea. This machine isn't going to see a whole lot of hours but at this point we have no idea what was done to it or when. I would suspect very little has been done to it since it left the mine.
@@farawayfarm2520 I have found that once a machine has been running for some time, fully warmed up the transmission,, differentials and anything that needs a liquid lubrication once parked for a good day or so, will have most contamination settled in their lowest points. Just removing a drain for a few moments to draw off the worst of the settled junk will allow you to stretch out a change. Like you said, just moving some stumps or putting rocks that are the size of the house out of the way is probably all it will do. I know of new machines that small businesses own to make a highway or clear some land, drain a field.... those machines cost over a half million, and the filters plus oils cost around twenty thousand dollars. Granted those machines are working long hours and most likely every day possible to pay for their owning them. You look at a machine that can drill water for you in areas that drop casings five hundred feet cost a million dollars.... that is just one machine. If it needs a nickel filter, the owner has it and a extra most likely in case of ever needing again. Kind of how many owners of equipment have shelves full of unused filters for future changes that never happened or were so far from their equipment they just got more. I got crippled up on something not related to mechanicing but changed my whole life. I was fifty two and had over a hundred thousand in tools and boxes we use to work out of. You can not borrow a tool when you are fifty plus miles from home, you made or bought the correct tools and not the harbor freight tools, Mac, Snap on, many names of high high dollar tools that got used for this machine or that piece of equipment. When the equipment was sold or junked out, in other words gone, you still had those tools and you don't throw away a thousand dollar tool. So over forty years of collecting tools as I did still work till I was around sixty three, no longer walking or the use of my right arm, had tools. Would you sell your car you paid say fifty grand for it, and a month later no need for it so just sell it for fifty dollars? I think not yet tools do not sell well from where I live at a price paid. People come, try to put a few in their pockets when you are not looking plus stand there in a face thinking I am a idiot cause I want a hundred dollars for a battery powered three quarter drive impact wrench that cost well over a thousand dollars..... ya pennies on the dollars. I just gave them to my grandson hoping he would feed his wife and kids. A year after I gave them to him, back on welfare, tools in hock shops, and he has never darkened my door since a month after they inherited many thousands of dollars..... yeah I am a old ignorant man who really does not care for many people.
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin Definitely a problem to move. We don't have anywhere we plan on taking it. It's no doubt too big for this place but it wasn't too hard to get running and it was either move it before winter or it was going for scrap.
Sure wish my kid would bring D8's home....that diesel sounds like a million bucks ....A 2U was 1945-53.... work it easy and you'll get a lot of work out of that old girl 😊😊😊😊. Thanks Will.
@@brenterickson1695 Thanks Brent. My kid seems to attract all kinds of old stuff. The engine runs great. The fuel is at minimum 6 years old but it seems to run fine on it. It shouldn't have to work too hard around here, there's not much that's big enough to make it push hard.
@@farawayfarm2520 You'll get a a lot of work out of that old Cat.....I had was offered a old 46A D8 from Zieger that I used in the woods a couple of winters for scrap price....I turned it down and I've kicked my self many times for not buying it..
Fantastic find Get it to start better in the cold And Weld a couple bale Spears To the blade Then you can feed the cows in the winter time And in the mud season in the spring
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 I was suggesting we get a couple of bale spears for it before it came off the trailer. There are those years that spring feeding is brutal. Cody adjusted the Pony clutch last night and started it for a neighbor who used to run these at the mine back in the day. He said it was the best sound he heard all year. It definitely made his day.
I don't recall the @U ever having a HYD-system unless one purchased the conversion, and that is most likely it. I know I went round and round over that fact, I still remember from back in the day, working on those old 2U cats, with the winch mounted on the rear, happens I worked for Syracuse Supply, Cat dealer in Syracuse NY, back in the early 70...The cab cover was wood, four pipe's for roof supports. In spite of what people might think, Cat was just getting in to the game, struggling with how to design for functionality. Hoes and shovels, They didn't own / produce a shove / hoe of any kind, in my day until later years. depended on where one was at to see what all cat had produced, say like the 666, scraper, I schooled on the A series, but spent a great deal of my working years baby sitting the 666 spreads. yet the 641 A scarper was still in use up to mid 75, looked more like a toy. even though the 657-A a was on it's way out, but still being used more than the B series. in many places. I'm an old man, Now look it, all that old Yellow big iron from back in the day are Dinosaurs..... I shipped a lot of that old cat Iron and parts to south America back in the day, Once, while working at the dealer, although it wasn't my job, I was worked on the main floor, specialization it was called, more like hammer and chisel work back then. It was an exhaust manifold for a 14 blade, shipped it to a SJ Groves Job, ended up in a field parts Container in Bolivia. Reason I know, back in the day Goves would, were able to requisition right out of the dealers but had to carry the part, keep track of it, Location, not being charged until it was used, some odd few years later I was on that Job in Boliva, sure enough The part was still there, although it been lost, I happened to know it was in the container. I sent back to the US. Small back then. A lot of those old cats were shipped to South America, packed the push arms and all in the face of the blade, welded it all in. gone, what wasn't scrapped
@@Sojourning_ Thanks for watching and the great comment. Even in this day and age a lot of our old mine equipment that is considered to be beyond it's useful life still goes to South America and other exotic locations. I know it's because they can buy the stuff cheap but I still like the idea that there are people out there that can keep the old stuff running. 👍🙂
@@jordanjudas441 Not far. The glare on the tag didn't make it to easy to read in the video but I'm glad you got it. Thanks for watching and the comment. 👍🙂
@@ibgrizz Nice. I was hoping some guys who had run them would see the video. Cody has it starting better and I got some pushing video tonight. I'll keep putting up some videos when he's doing stuff with it.
@@farawayfarm2520 Sweet!!! I cleaned lots of ground with it Seeing that brought back some good memories Ours was set up for logging had a winch and we had a big track arch we towed around behind it We had a clearing rake blade And kinda a U-blade
OMG what a beast! Love to have one of those here for a summer. I’d be scared to buy one because I just don’t know anything about the undercarriage. I can learn from you😅! Great cowboy hat on Cody. He seems pretty familiar with operated. Is your plan to use this in winter? I suspect you need pretty dry ground.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn She's a beast alright. Right now it's so dry we could go anywhere. We're going to clean up the brush clumps in the current pastures in the next couple weeks and then slick the brush off the south side of the ditch when it's frozen. We just want to get it so we can fence it and get around with a tractor and bush hog. We'll see what we have after a couple of years of grazing and mowing. About a year ago Cody decided that a straw cowboy hat was his trademark. I guess it goes with the steer horns on his flatbed.
I cringed when he dove into that first tree thinking about what it was sucking up with no air cleaner. Dirt in the intake is the worse thing for a D13000 Cat engine, well for any engine for that matter.
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I ran a cable 2-U back in the 70's, did chaining, root plowing , stacking, pulled a roane disk/plow. and pulled a or letourneau scraper digging tanks in South Texas. great old tractors. wait till ya have a clutch link fire.
Since this one isn't going to get a lot of hours per year maybe we can avoid a clutch fire. It should be interesting to see how it works shearing the brush off frozen ground. There will definitely be some video when we start that. Thanks for watching and commenting. 👍
Boy oh boy, the fun begins!!! I CANT wait to see more of yall clearing with the ole girl!! Boy it sure does run smoothly!! Cody is like a machine working that pony motor😉😉 Smiling, thats what its all about😁😁😁😁😁 Thank you Mr Will!!
@@Pennies_on_the_dollar We're going to get the rest of the brush out of the current pasture and then the idea is when we get some frost in the ground to just cut the brush off at ground level across the ditch and create a new pasture that's good enough to run the bush hog on. There will be some clumps of big trees left in there for shade. The fence line path kind of exists already it just needs to be straightened out. The Pony clutch needs adjustment it was slipping when he switched to high speed with the fuel on. 👍🙂🇺🇸
@farawayfarm2520 I loved it, and can't wait to see the ole gal in action! Sounds like a plan for sure!!
Reminds me of an old D4 we operate in the 1970s some days the pony engine starts and runs like a dream and some days it wouldn't even spark
@@hubertrobinson8825 The old D4 I ran a little in the 90s was converted to electric start. It was a battle to get it started in the winter. Thanks. 👍🙂
Once it started, it sounded great. That made easy work of clearing those trees out. Going to have to find some work for it. Looking forward to seeing more of the beast.
@@pinesedgefarm1155 A few starting motor issues, mostly the clutch slipping, but I'm sure we can iron those out. I'm sure Cody is going to want to eliminate the rest of the brush in the east pasture while it's still dry. Seems like people are liking the dozer video so I'll have to make more.
Sounds great! That thing is a beast!
@@trinitydairy It runs really nice. I'm a little afraid of what kind of remodeling we might get around here it's such a beast.
You’re going to make Mr Nelson envious Will!
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 I'm a little afraid that might be the case. This is a little like a Nelson find.
Very nice Will !
Happy for you guys!
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 Thanks again Gary. Cody first went and looked at it last spring. They wanted it gone before winter.
Nice find Will!
After your comment on my last video, I have been anxiously awaiting to see what you were hinting at.
Your 40 was a hit in my last video.
Several people have commented on it when I have run into them out and about.
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 Thanks Gary. This thing weighs about as much as eight 40s. 🤣
So you live in Minnesota and have the typical cold winters like I was used to growing up in Washington state, cascade mountain range. I was born in forty nine, worked for dad and he bought a used 2U D8 dozer, that had pulled a scraper that was cable controlled so it had two winches on the back that mounted sideways for the controls on a scraper. Cat had discontinued that system and used just one winch to operate the cable blade on this slide shift transmission machine. I say all of this because when dad bought it, he made sure I was there to follow instructions to the LETTER. It had provisions for a electric start pony motor but fixing that part was going to raise the price significantly. You stood between the blade and radiator to hand crank the starting engine. Yes I know the differences between motors and engines, and this is not a english class, just information to what I remember being taught. I was dads mechanic and so even as young as I was, it was only a matter of time before expected to do anything asked. mechanics, fabrication, plumbing on fuel or hydraulics, the electrical components.... anything that was needed to be fixed on my dads logging equipment was my job. And at twelve, I was actually a lead mechanic for him. So be it, better than setting chokers in the brush, yet did that too if needed. I could do anything he did and anything a crew member did. I never questioned it but followed his instructions.
You are starting this engine wrong. There is a fuel pressure gauge on the dash along with a oil pressure gauge. You have the pony motor going in the low position.... watch the fuel pressure till its in the operating position as well as when the oil pressure is up to where it is about middle of gauge. Now depending on age of machines seen many that had little to almost none oil pressure as they wore out. I took the side plates off of the side of the engines and rolled new incerts in rods on many of those engines, remember how much money we made then by chance as this is nineteen fifty eight, (1958) and right after the Korean conflict that later was declared a war. Money was thinner than soup you served your hateful mother in law. As you seen, it has a low, middle and then start position on the gear lever for the pony to main engine. Once engine was rolling easy enough, put into the middle position to turn faster the main plus get lub pressures and fuel pressures where needed. So unless colder than a mother in laws kiss, no need for starting fluid.... starting fluid really doesn't hurt or help much except to wash the oil off of cylinders if used way heavy.
I assume by now that you think I am some kind of hateful kook and baned my comment. If not, there in Indiana, there is a shop called C&C Equipment. If you call them you will likely talk to "Uncle Scott who mans phone questions for some things, Clint owns and operates this business and his wife is the bookkeeper. his sons work part time when not in college or one just finished high school. They hands down are the best mechanics with parts galore for these machines. In fact just bought three no operating units of this era. They are quite friendly, fair, quick and knowledge is king in any kind of equipment. Yeah by now thinking this old man knows enough to get in trouble but couldn't pack your water bottle. You may be right, or ..... just trying to help it last longer and no I do not travel anymore, I am now so crippled up from laying under broken junk ... plus I swear way too much for the people around me.... mechanics normally are working alone and so a chipmunk won't complain
@@morgansword I appreciate the comments. I would have been disappointed if an old CAT mechanic hadn't told us we were starting it wrong. We are aware that we weren't going through the proper procedure but the starting engine clutch was slipping, the carb needs some work, and few other small issues. Once Cody gets these issues taken care of it should be able to start as intended. This one has been sitting 6 years because of the starting motor clutch issues. We did enough to get it on the trailer before they scrapped it. Stop by again sometime when we have a video of it doing a little work.
@@farawayfarm2520 I would not feel good about myself if I offended you in any way but felt you spent good money for a old machine that can be milked for a good many years if all the oils and filters are kept up on. This machine has filters where you least expect so get the proper manuals that show all of them. A total oil and filter change would cost more than spent for it so use a lot of discretion in what to change or not. Please keep a diary for days past and write dates of changes on filters or place on this machine. Trust me after a few months, things just are plumb forgot. I never learned to read or write for years but used my memory for torque spec's on things needed fixed. I knew my numbers as dad said it was all I needed to keep from being cheated out of your wages. A ten hour day in the early fifties and close to the sixties was around ten dollars or less a day. I would earn extra money for dad and family by shoveling gardens... around a quarter acre of ground in a town called Rockport. They named the town after all the rocks and a tea spoon of dirt ... hard dang work... I would shovel their whole garden plot for three dollars a day plus a homemade sandwich and coffee. this is a can see to can't see day. I woke up the rooster leaving for work.
@@morgansword I'm never offended by someone who knows something about a machine trying to be helpful. I'm glad you found the video. Keeping good service records is definitely a good idea. This machine isn't going to see a whole lot of hours but at this point we have no idea what was done to it or when. I would suspect very little has been done to it since it left the mine.
@@farawayfarm2520 I have found that once a machine has been running for some time, fully warmed up the transmission,, differentials and anything that needs a liquid lubrication once parked for a good day or so, will have most contamination settled in their lowest points. Just removing a drain for a few moments to draw off the worst of the settled junk will allow you to stretch out a change. Like you said, just moving some stumps or putting rocks that are the size of the house out of the way is probably all it will do. I know of new machines that small businesses own to make a highway or clear some land, drain a field.... those machines cost over a half million, and the filters plus oils cost around twenty thousand dollars. Granted those machines are working long hours and most likely every day possible to pay for their owning them. You look at a machine that can drill water for you in areas that drop casings five hundred feet cost a million dollars.... that is just one machine. If it needs a nickel filter, the owner has it and a extra most likely in case of ever needing again. Kind of how many owners of equipment have shelves full of unused filters for future changes that never happened or were so far from their equipment they just got more. I got crippled up on something not related to mechanicing but changed my whole life. I was fifty two and had over a hundred thousand in tools and boxes we use to work out of. You can not borrow a tool when you are fifty plus miles from home, you made or bought the correct tools and not the harbor freight tools, Mac, Snap on, many names of high high dollar tools that got used for this machine or that piece of equipment. When the equipment was sold or junked out, in other words gone, you still had those tools and you don't throw away a thousand dollar tool. So over forty years of collecting tools as I did still work till I was around sixty three, no longer walking or the use of my right arm, had tools. Would you sell your car you paid say fifty grand for it, and a month later no need for it so just sell it for fifty dollars? I think not yet tools do not sell well from where I live at a price paid. People come, try to put a few in their pockets when you are not looking plus stand there in a face thinking I am a idiot cause I want a hundred dollars for a battery powered three quarter drive impact wrench that cost well over a thousand dollars..... ya pennies on the dollars. I just gave them to my grandson hoping he would feed his wife and kids. A year after I gave them to him, back on welfare, tools in hock shops, and he has never darkened my door since a month after they inherited many thousands of dollars..... yeah I am a old ignorant man who really does not care for many people.
Awesome ! Yeah, sounds like the pony motor starter has issues.
Thank you Will.
@@brycewiborg8095 Needs a little carb work and tighten up the clutch and it should be good. Thanks Bryce.
Good afternoon Will.
Only problem with D6 and bigger, is moving from place to place..
Would love a D6 to D8 once in a while!!!
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin Definitely a problem to move. We don't have anywhere we plan on taking it. It's no doubt too big for this place but it wasn't too hard to get running and it was either move it before winter or it was going for scrap.
@@farawayfarm2520 so, it was either free, or scrap price.. plus hauling of course.. can't beat that!!
I like it
@@joshwelner1951 me too 👍😎
@@joshwelner1951 Thanks Josh. It's quite a machine. It's better off here than going for scrap and being turned into rebar or something.
What a cool find that’s going to be alot of fun!
@@dustinadams9136 It should be good for a bunch of things. I have a feeling it's going to cause me some serious rock picking. 🤣
Took a bit, but damn, she sure purrs!!! Should get it done!!!
@@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin Adjustment needed on the Pony clutch. A little slipping going on.
@@farawayfarm2520 gottchya 👍
Sure wish my kid would bring D8's home....that diesel sounds like a million bucks ....A 2U was 1945-53.... work it easy and you'll get a lot of work out of that old girl 😊😊😊😊. Thanks Will.
@@brenterickson1695 Thanks Brent. My kid seems to attract all kinds of old stuff. The engine runs great. The fuel is at minimum 6 years old but it seems to run fine on it. It shouldn't have to work too hard around here, there's not much that's big enough to make it push hard.
@@farawayfarm2520 You'll get a a lot of work out of that old Cat.....I had was offered a old 46A D8 from Zieger that I used in the woods a couple of winters for scrap price....I turned it down and I've kicked my self many times for not buying it..
@@brenterickson1695 These big old things will still do a lot if you're nice to them.
Fantastic find
Get it to start better in the cold And Weld a couple bale Spears To the blade Then you can feed the cows in the winter time And in the mud season in the spring
@@jonstevensmaplegrovefarms3754 I was suggesting we get a couple of bale spears for it before it came off the trailer. There are those years that spring feeding is brutal. Cody adjusted the Pony clutch last night and started it for a neighbor who used to run these at the mine back in the day. He said it was the best sound he heard all year. It definitely made his day.
@@farawayfarm2520 nice!
Thats pretty sweet! Nice find 😊
@@burrridgefarms Thanks Adam. There's still a few treasures hiding out there.
It's been a long-time since I've found one😥 but I'm glad it has a good home now😁
@@burrridgefarms I'm still waiting to find a rare 2 cylinder somewhere. 🤷♂️
Alright!!!’
She lives!!!
@@tractortalkwithgary1271 Yes indeed. 🙂
You be converting backwoods ground to prime hayground in no time.
@@Heimerviewfarm I don't know about prime hay ground but it should produce a little pasture by next year.
Thats a good ol´big girl!!!!😍
@@krnsssdz I agree. Big old iron is beautiful. Thanks. 👍🙂
I don't recall the @U ever having a HYD-system unless one purchased the conversion,
and that is most likely it. I know I went round and round over that fact,
I still remember from back in the day, working on those old 2U cats, with the winch mounted on the rear, happens I worked for Syracuse Supply, Cat dealer in Syracuse NY, back in the early 70...The cab cover was wood, four pipe's for roof supports.
In spite of what people might think, Cat was just getting in to the game, struggling with
how to design for functionality. Hoes and shovels, They didn't own / produce a shove / hoe of any kind, in my day until later years.
depended on where one was at to see what all cat had produced, say like the 666, scraper, I schooled on the A series, but spent a great deal of my working years
baby sitting the 666 spreads. yet the 641 A scarper was still in use up to mid 75, looked more like a toy. even though the 657-A a was on it's way out, but still being used more than the B series. in many places. I'm an old man, Now look it,
all that old Yellow big iron from back in the day are Dinosaurs..... I shipped a lot of that old cat Iron and parts to south America back in the day, Once, while working at the dealer, although it wasn't my job, I was worked on the main floor, specialization it was called, more like hammer and chisel work back then. It was an exhaust manifold for a 14 blade, shipped it to a SJ Groves Job, ended up in a field parts Container in Bolivia.
Reason I know, back in the day Goves would, were able to requisition right out of the dealers but had to carry the part, keep track of it, Location, not being charged until it was used, some odd few years later I was on that Job in Boliva, sure enough The part was still there, although it been lost, I happened to know it was in the container. I sent back to the US. Small back then. A lot of those old cats were shipped to South America, packed the push arms and all in the face of the blade, welded it all in. gone,
what wasn't scrapped
@@Sojourning_ Thanks for watching and the great comment. Even in this day and age a lot of our old mine equipment that is considered to be beyond it's useful life still goes to South America and other exotic locations. I know it's because they can buy the stuff cheap but I still like the idea that there are people out there that can keep the old stuff running. 👍🙂
Not far from the end of 2U series. Last # was 2U23537. 1953. 13A was next.
@@jordanjudas441 Not far. The glare on the tag didn't make it to easy to read in the video but I'm glad you got it. Thanks for watching and the comment. 👍🙂
I grew up running one with a cable dozer
@@ibgrizz Nice. I was hoping some guys who had run them would see the video. Cody has it starting better and I got some pushing video tonight. I'll keep putting up some videos when he's doing stuff with it.
@@farawayfarm2520
Sweet!!!
I cleaned lots of ground with it
Seeing that brought back some good memories
Ours was set up for logging had a winch and we had a big track arch we towed around behind it
We had a clearing rake blade
And kinda a U-blade
@@ibgrizz It would be nice to have a winch. I know where there is an arch that I could possibly get a hold of. Not many of those around.
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That would be cool 😎
Great,That's where John Deere got the idea for the pony motor, they stole it from Cat.
@@br927 Just about everyone stole everything from someone at one point or another. 24° Here right now, would be a good starting motor test.
OMG what a beast! Love to have one of those here for a summer. I’d be scared to buy one because I just don’t know anything about the undercarriage. I can learn from you😅! Great cowboy hat on Cody. He seems pretty familiar with operated. Is your plan to use this in winter? I suspect you need pretty dry ground.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn She's a beast alright. Right now it's so dry we could go anywhere. We're going to clean up the brush clumps in the current pastures in the next couple weeks and then slick the brush off the south side of the ditch when it's frozen. We just want to get it so we can fence it and get around with a tractor and bush hog. We'll see what we have after a couple of years of grazing and mowing. About a year ago Cody decided that a straw cowboy hat was his trademark. I guess it goes with the steer horns on his flatbed.
I cringed when he dove into that first tree thinking about what it was sucking up with no air cleaner. Dirt in the intake is the worse thing for a D13000 Cat engine, well for any engine for that matter.
@@gradallguy5767 No doubt. The hood and air cleaner have been returned to their proper places for future videos. 👍🙂
Not even an honorable mention....... That is a big piece of iron. At least he didn't back into your truck.
@@markmaccani9411 We'll do a little more in depth starting video and make sure you get in the credits.
@@markmaccani9411 I wish I had that thing when we were building the camp.
* KILLDOZER !!! 👊😎👍
@@Awsom47Merc It definitely has that look. 👍🤣
@@farawayfarm2520 Thats on here for free if you haven't seen it in ages. 😊
@@Awsom47Merc Cool. I haven't seen it in ages. 😎
@@farawayfarm2520 So is "tread" about that guy that made a tank out of a cat and wrecked the town.
Are you going to paint it John Deere green 😜 if it’s an old Erie cat I’m sure my dad ran it and worked on it.
@@Homefree18 I always said the best thing about CAT was their paint. We'll leave it yellow. 🤣
Have about 1500 hours time on a D 7 C 1956 model
@@wilmamcdermott3065 👍I've got maybe 100 on a '54 D4 about 30 years ago.