Started farming in 1973 using a 1936 cat Diesel 50.Graduated to a D-4C then a cat 9-U D-6 hotrod with a 230 hp 1673 cat truck engine, basically a poormans D-5.Pretty much retired now but still farm about 80 acres and work for a farmer part time.I live not far from you south of Potlatch.

Excellent piece of equipment! Paid off and easy to service. Built to last and doesn't cost a fortune to repair. Also a welding umbrella is awesome for shade. Also, I recommend a 3M or similar closed face filtration headset. You can listen to music and breath filtered air and not have dust in your eyes....

That's an awesome sounding D5, nice work keep it up! 👍

Brings back a lot of memories - I started working on a farm at 15 running an almost identical cat D5 - but was lucky enough to have a cab. Thanks for sharing - great Video!

Excellent. Brings back memories. When I was a kid, my first big kid job was pulling a spring tooth harrow with a D4D. That was the only tractor Grandad every bought new. It did everything…plow, harrow, rod…I rodded a lot of acres with it. Then they got a new to them AC HD11AG. That was some big time operating then! Great content, thanks.

Very nice Mitch I seen you there when you were seeding my dad has worked for you and your grandpa for years. Love seeing the old track machines going!!

I found your channel through this video. As a older retired guy that was born on a farm in Missouri. The D6 caught my attention very good video. I have since watched your other videos. I have enjoyed all of them, very interesting content. Keep up the good work.

Great video, Love Dad's comments. Congratulations on your 3 for 3.

Brought back a lot of good memories!

Love the Cat I have had a D2 5u series, D4d ag tractor with cab, D4E SA Factory cat cab and now 2 challenger 65's all but the D2 came from the north west back here to Missouri where i live (Jacksonville) I did not plant with them but put on anhydrous on, tillage and pulled a scraper for field work.

Excellent vid, many thanks

Great Video, Just walked in from cutting grass hay with a mule drawn sickle mower! Love the Video

Just found your channel. I’m a Canadian Jamieson living just north of Toronto but grew up in the eastern province of New Brunswick.

Iv never see tires like that before. Great job. I run a 1950 cat d4 6u so amazing machines

Good video please keep making them

We have a D5B SA 26X it has a cab with AC it came off of the Palouse. We pull a disc with it taking out brush. It works great no flat tires.

Went Pullman in 1976 to the State FFA convention. I remember seeing a ton of Tracks then. Loved you video and I want the old International behind the barn.

Pretty neat old equipment. Don’t see many guys get that dirty anymore! Does remind me of the days when I ran equipment with no cabs. And yes I have hearing problems from not using ear protection.

Here in Italy we are still useing this tractor. We also have D6d special application custom product. 270 hp. Magnifecent machine. 👍

My grandparents used an IH td9 from 55 to 63. Then my father bought his own farm. Another 800 acres. I have pictures of my father doing fieldwork in the fall of 64. Thanks for the memories.

Great job ! They say that was the good old days. 🙄 you did a good job keeping your passes straight. Fun video.

Hey Mitch, I am originally from the PNW in the Palouse. I see you live in the Garfield area. I've got family in Palouse. Bill Wolf was my Uncle. I worked some for Don Krebel back in the day. That D5 sure brings back memorys, although I was raised Red around Latah. Thanks for the memory.

Fun and interesting to watch a track tractor in operation!!!

This is so cool. Been away for some years, living now in MO, and saw this channel, and the name!!! My dad used to drive truck for Hollis years back. I grew up farming for Cochran's. Thanks for sharing your videos.

@PNWHillsideFarmer

Жыл бұрын

Very cool! Always fun to hear about the connections people have to our farm or the area. Its a small world for sure!

Enjoyed the video - good job. I'm a retired guy that farmed in the Willamette Valley of Oregon - multiplied varieties of grass seed, wheat, and clover.

Wow. I grew up on track tractors on our farm in Harrington Washington. We had a D5 and an Allis Chalmers HD15. They had cabs that kept out most of the dust but I did work for a farmer that had a D5 without a cab putting seed in the ground in Harrington Wa. I also worked for a farmer in Garfield/Farmington area for a year. Gotta say that I was always envious of you Palouse farmers. Love the country and terrain in the Palouse country, nothing like it! Thanks so much for the video and the memories you gave. Praying you all have a blessed year farming.

@PNWHillsideFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris! Its so fun to hear everyone's stories. We are so fortunate to farm in the Palouse. Thanks for watching, I'm glad I could bring back a few good memories for you.

@LukaArtelj

2 жыл бұрын

@@PNWHillsideFarmer I am a noob, can you explain the whole process in old farming, including fertilizing foss spraying cultivation harvest...

Very nice. Good on you.

Cool video! I remember operating a D5 and D6 in the early 70's in the Palo Verde Valley in California.

@PNWHillsideFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Very cool! They are a unique tractor to operate!

My dad started farming near Reardan, WA in fall 1983. We planted in fall with an old D4 but it was quite worn. He bought an Allis-Chalmers HD6 after planting season and used it until 1988 or '89. That's when he bought a Massey Fergusun 1805 quadwheel tractor and it greatly sped things up. In fact, it was the first time anything faster than a crawler tractor worked the land since ground was broken before turn of the century. Because of that, alot of rocks were turned up in one of our 3 fields when he first ran the cultivator thru with that tractor. We spent alot of time picking rocks out of that 80+ acre field. There's nothing like the farming life and I miss it.

Nice views, I went to school in Moscow. Now I design those Challergers you are running.

In France we saw some crawler tractors in farms of more than 250 acres and in one piece (no roads) especially around 1960 to harvest maize in very wet years with towed corn picker (New Idea or Oliver) or plough with disc plough. Our neighbour had a Cater, but there were more in the clay areas IH TD6, TD9, TD14. near Orléans _France

Every spring break I would spend the week pulling a rod weeeder behind an RD-6.

We still run older equipment. Stuff you can actually work on. Still pulling a 12' 8200 drill, behind a cultipacker with a 3394 Case-IH. A few around us are running 450-600hp quad tracks, pulling the same set ups.. all in the hills. Needless to say, they plant at 10mph++ we do good to pull the hills at 4mph, maybe average 6mph.. been too wet here, but hopefully get in the field soon!! Thanks for the video!!

love the old school stuff. with the pull levers how easy is it to track a straight line.

My uncle bolted 1"x1" steel angle extensions to the running boards on his D-6 and then bolted plywood to the steel angle. It acted as fenders to keep dirt/dust from being tossed from the tracks to the open cab. He claimed success but it looked limited.

My neighbour used the same kind of rig till 2005. 2 14' side by side. Always pulled by a Case 2074 (70ish) and then a Steiger Puma (green). It was a big rig at the time when most guys were seeding with 12' drills. 3 ton trucks and 100hp tractors. This was before air seeders. Nobody in my part of the world used Cats for farm work not since the 50s. Too heavy in wet conditions. Great video and i subed keep it up!

I like your new opening graphic...very cool!

@PNWHillsideFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you like it

Less high speed! I want to hear that beautiful thing run.

Really nice old Cat!

Nice job

Good video dude...I still get dust mud face from time to time ..In Steigers and JD's with broken AC's...

nice video 👍

awesome to see that old D5 in action....... a little less on the background music would be appreciated..... being able to hear that old girl at full chat pulling the cultivator or planter uphill would be awesome....

Not to be negative, but the fast forward kind of ruins the video. Would much rather see the machinery running at its normal speed and sound.

I don`t consider a D5 sa an old tractor. We still use one on a regular basis. At least we have a cab and AC. It is an sa for ag use but also working in the hills. If you notice the drawbar is low to the ground.

lol. driving around a 4 wheeler while hoeing weeds will get me looking like that as well.

Yes, in the early 80's we bought some cotton seed from Delta Pineland seed company they had done some major repair work to one of their storage houses the Contractor did not clean up very good We encountered a bunch of welding rod remnants in the seed it cost me a day and 1/2 of time.. my dad worked a deal and sent us some of their soybeans to try. I opened a bag and the soybean seed also had grain sourghum seed mixed in boy was I mad I rarely use or bought any Delta Pineland products there after

Oh longing for the old days back on the farm \ ranch

My grandfather farmed with 1940's Cat D8's.........pulling multiple plows (combined 100ft) in sandy soil in NW Victoria,Australia. He was cropping 5,000 acres a year.

Love the Brittany Spaniel, we had one for 16 yrs.

We have a 1952 Cat D6 dozer. The diesel engine sounds just like your D5. Good lugging old engines.

My dad had one of these I got really good on it

I grew up on the farm and at the end of the day you couldn't tell what color I was. Modern society couldn't handle the way us old guys grew up with a.c. machinery and super quiet equipment. But I dont miss it. Lol

Wow, that's fast for an old tractor!

I do some work with a small 70's Massey. I must say, my dozer sounds nothing like yours. Upon use mine sounds like a dozer but yours sounds techno music instead. Is that a modification to your exhaust? Did you fit pipe organ parts to it or somethin'?

@Double_Vision

2 жыл бұрын

It's the after-market DEF system.

It would be nice to see some of the video played at normal speed without the music

Should cab that old cat.Only time we see those are on drainage work or pulling a mole plough.Very rare to see but ag contractor near me uses D6 for drainage work.

Hard work

Look like old that machine..but full with history...

I grew up on that equioment.

I couldn't tell for sure if it was wheat or beans. I used one older than those that had rotating rings in the bottom with right size holes to drop the seed. Differernt set of rings depending on the seed. It has small boxes on the back for grass seed or clover seed in with the wheat. It just dropped on the ground and lenghths of chain dragging lightly covered the grass or clover behind the drills.

@PNWHillsideFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Ted, this is wheat in this video. Thanks

Just liked and subscribed. We have several tractors mostly Farmalls. Five are crawlers. Two are D 4 caterpillars. We have video on our channel.

We have like six or seven maybe eight but we have it old D5 bulldozer that’s like the only thing we use now but we fire them up every year and taking care of them

Would prefer to see some normal speed video.

Is that a Melroe/Gysler chisel plow?

Right to repair, no problem, just sourcing good parts.

Always look after that machine ,keep it in good shape .Too many of them end up just parked and after a few years given away for SCRAP ! The computerized equipment can be a headache , JD-and other manufacturers SpaceX machanic field service engineers on call to fix $400 sensor--when the part comes in .

That there is what prompted Cat to start producing what we today call LGP dozers or low ground pressure and the dirt version will I swear float on water if I’m not mistaken cat didn’t even make that grouser they are from an Italian manufacturer if I’m not mistaken cause I know at one point the grousers were after market good video’s my friend keep up the good work

What's up with that IH truck? is it a corn binder model?

@PNWHillsideFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure if its corn binder model. It's the landlord IH pickup. I believe they have owned it for quite a few years. Good eye.

Marvellous no ground compaction simple low maintenance equipment, farming just got far too complicated, need to go for better yields and less acres well done guys

@davehughesfarm7983

2 жыл бұрын

Yes...But not for me..No monitors, screens, computers ,gps or nothing...Ok one planter monitor on a kinze...

Shame all the footage of the tractor running was sped up. I also grew up on a farm and those old girls beat to a different drum. The sounds of working ground, the smells of freshly tilled earth, diesel and diesel fumes as well as all the mechanical noises it a part of the whole theatre. just a few minutes would have provided me a fix. Next time.

Thanks.

👍

that why you dont use a dump truck as a seed tender

With the Right-to-repair issues, count your blessings to have fully mechanical farming equipment.

Love the old stuff. But please dont touch the seed without gloves.

80 acres=SMALL field 😯

So what makes it a special application machine for farming?

@robgm6926

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he'll tell you. But just by looking at it there are no mounts anywhere on that machine for a dozer blade or the lift cylinders, it has all those hydraulic connections at the back to operate whatever implements you're pulling and those extra levers on the right to control those hydraulics, and those tracks are wider and different cleats then a bulldozer for construction would have. It may even be geared different, and have a draw bar designed for pulling farm implements

@nellsonstout7001

2 жыл бұрын

That was Cat’s factory term

@nellsonstout7001

2 жыл бұрын

@@robgm6926 I think they are geared differently

still some used around ww County

cat runs good, runs real good

You look like the ace of spades

Really? Fast motion and music? I had to bail.

Weight equals traction. This is the Caterpillar rule since day one.

Would enjoy content if instead of background music, we could hear the sound of farm equipment... I'm guessing that this is a farm and not a music video wanna be

How does the gps work?

@PNWHillsideFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

No GPS on this old tractor! Driving all by hand, Old School!

@BillStecik

2 жыл бұрын

@@PNWHillsideFarmer You can drive by hand ?

Why aren't those tracks adjusted properly?

@PNWHillsideFarmer

2 жыл бұрын

They have definitely been used, thats for sure. They could use some adjustment, but there isn't too much adjustment left in them without getting new undercarriage. Thanks for watching!

@thecollectoronthecorner7061

2 жыл бұрын

@@PNWHillsideFarmer You can remove a link and make the tracks shorter and get a bit more adjustment.

@EL300B

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecollectoronthecorner7061 You might get more adjustment but you're not solving the real problem which is wear of the pins and bushings in the rails.

@thecollectoronthecorner7061

2 жыл бұрын

@@EL300B I agree. howeve when the front idler is extended to the extent that it can wobble around. then your track adjusting seals are likely to pop. and the likely hood of throwing a track increases.

This is 2022 bc there were no selfie sticks in 1975…😜🤣🤣

DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU GET IT DONE....

i ran my grandpaws D-4 as a skidder at the end of the day you felt like you did stuff not this push buttion joy stick world we live in

Your poor lungs!

Anyone still ripping, ploughing or harrowing may as well claim to be farming in the 8th Century. Regenerative Agriculture, once understood and implemented reduces costs and improves yields when: the entire local Ecosystem is also in place (predators for the pests have a refuge), No Till, Armour and diversity (cover crops, multi-species), some animal impact, continuous roots in the ground making space for sequestered rainfall. IOW the good old days were mostly hard graft, drought and pest infestations.

@delbutler885

2 жыл бұрын

We're farming organic and we are still tilling to take out crops

@peterclark6290

2 жыл бұрын

@@delbutler885 Some crops have to be pulled up (e.g. carrots, potatoes), but the surrounding soil can remain stable and under a suitable cover crop. There will be a smart solution, and always room for an even smarter one. Organic was a step forward. But Regen Ag has the ability to run long races. It has answers for nearly all the existential concerns; food quality and security; water sequestration, cleanliness, droughts and flood mitigation, deserts; CO² has an important function; and much more.

@delbutler885

2 жыл бұрын

Peter Clark I'm well aware of the different systems. I don't believe in using chemicals to wholesale kill ecosystems. When you are taking out grasses and alfalfa stands you have to use cold hard steel.

@peterclark6290

2 жыл бұрын

@@delbutler885 How those plants got in the way you neglected to explain, however both can be cut down and baled or chomped on by stock. There is no way around it Del, the plough destroys soil by compromising the life that makes it soil. It is up to you find the method that works on your farm that complies with the Regen Ag basics or just stick with Organics.

@delbutler885

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterclark6290 they were planted as commercial stands to be cut and baled. The stands are worn out. They need rotated. We have cattle and they are what has screwed this place up. Regenerative grazing is great on our grazing pastures. On crop land for export quality forage crops it doesn't work. We have hundreds of cattle and they need to stay far from crop land. The compaction that they cause is untenable..

I prefer 1975.

It was, is and always the best machines, today's modern machines are a bunch of rubbish.

What no g p s

How about a mask?

Put a mask on 😷 to lessen silicosis. 🦘🇦🇺

@andrewjoyce7789

2 жыл бұрын

Good call, my father coughs a bit from that..

Oh yeah!!!!! Theres a dudes where i live(walla walla) who pulls a disk and cultivator on the crazy hills out here