Two thumbs up 👍👍 for crawler operators of times passed. And this young fellow has got it down pat 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This is machinery at its purest. Every single detail of it steals my heart. That low RPM sound is so very sweet to my ears. I'd love to smell the grease, oil and fumes. I must be careful now, the wife may become suspicious. After a couple of hours, that operators back must hurt crazy. Wonderful video, very appreciated.

@thomaspeschel4322

2 жыл бұрын

Uuuuuuuuuu

Boy, you gotta be a real man to drive that thing around all day. Holy cow.

@tylermallory2504

2 жыл бұрын

You should see someone run an old clutch over brake drag line!!!

@thomaslemay8817

2 жыл бұрын

Nearly as difficult as driving a team of draft horses trained for logging operations. Big powerful and when they go they go at a run from a standing start. You must keep up and avoid having a log dragged over you .you can be on either side of the log or if you're crazy you can stand on top.

@cumulusvapes7

2 жыл бұрын

Thats when men were men and sheep were scared!

@JorgeRodriguez-po7kx

2 жыл бұрын

@@cumulusvapes7 Definitely 😁👍 It Makes Me Laugh is really Nice

@cumulusvapes7

2 жыл бұрын

@@JorgeRodriguez-po7kx 😆

I like to think about the person who was able to get that when it was brand new and had never worked a day. Imagine how lucky that person would have felt to be able to have such a fine piece of new machinery

absolutely perfect! From the time of do it right or go home in a stack of shoe boxes! Back when a lost finger was a dock of pay and someone saying I bet you don't do that again!

I love the open, raw mechanicalness, I don't think that's a word but I don't know how those engines lasted in the environment they lived in.

@scottwilke3966

2 жыл бұрын

Lp

@michaelvinciguerra4369

2 жыл бұрын

I am sanctioning this to now be a word. Every time someone uses it on television you get a nickel. Truly a genius word. Cheers…

@tomchrisfield7348

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelvinciguerra4369 thank you Michael. I expect that the nickels will flow in a river of silver to my door.

@vajeye-nar6172

2 жыл бұрын

Never knew that word existed yet i fully understood straight away

Man that is too cool ! Love seeing history moving under its own power.

That is one sweet sounding engine. Might be a bit much having to listen to it working all day but sweet just the same.

@marcp1180

2 жыл бұрын

And that's why so many early farmers and construction workers were deaf or hard of hearing. Looks like it might have been hard on the back as well, but what a gorgeous beast it is!

@billhartl6601

2 жыл бұрын

Engine must have a boat load of low end torque

@ironcladranchandforge7292

2 жыл бұрын

@@billhartl6601 -- Holt 45 is a 5 ton. It has a 425ci or 7.0L engine. Unfortunately I don't know the HP or torque specs. I believe Holt made this model from 1919 until 1925 or so. Wish I knew the torque spec though....

@ironcladranchandforge7292

2 жыл бұрын

@@mmm365 -- Awesome, thanks!!

@sprucesoldier

2 жыл бұрын

Go away with that Negativity! LoL!

What a sound! So cool to see these actually working. I can't imagine actually working a whole day on one of these back then though

@ironcladranchandforge7292

2 жыл бұрын

That sound is awesome!! You're also right about working on that all day. It would beat a person half to death. I have a 1952 Oliver crawler/dozer that I use occasionally. A couple hours on that and I can hardly walk. Well, I'm getting old too, LOL. But those old machines were not comfortable by any means.

@davesaltis2692

2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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I love that the only concession to the fact a human has to drive this are that there’d is a place to put your bottom and that the clutch levers are vaguely next to it!

@Akcd11r2002

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, talk about spartan.... LOL. The driver looks like hes whipping a horse at times... an iron horse. Lot of character in that machine... thats for sure.

Imagine what the builders of that machine would say if they saw a current track tractor.! Their accomplishments of that era are amazing tho.

@devindraeger9769

2 жыл бұрын

Probably wonder why there built so cheap. Those guys intended things to last.

@mrwhips3623

Жыл бұрын

​@@devindraeger9769 modern machinery is objectively better in so many ways.

That engine is a site!!!! Wow goes to show that it don’t take all that technology and wiring and sensors to make an engine run💪

Many of us still had to be born and these machines were already working, it is incredible and they still work. Great video and thanks for teaching the real mechanics.

Everyone should have one of those!

The two piece bottom frame rail was really ahead of its time. That was the start of the D-11. Great video. I would be all over that piece of equipment. Looking, drawing diagrams. Awesome

A California original still in the same county as its birth place! Fantastic.

Great video and that Holt in a true Gem! I have a 59 JD 730 diesel row crop tractor that I plow with for about a week every year with and its like being set free out in the field, the sound, the air all the smells it certainly just gives your mind a true rest!

@pacificcoastpiper3949

2 жыл бұрын

The old popper??

Dang that sounds so great! Simpler times!

Ah, the exhilaration of ancient rusty iron coming to life!

Seeing the driver so far off the back makes him seem like having a space for the driver was just an afterthought in the design of this giant machine

WOW! Incredible,,, best action video in a long time. The man knew how to operate his tractor from top to bottom. WOW! again, thanks

Here we see the origins of the continuous tracked vehicle which Ben Holt of Stockton Ca. later named the "caterpillar" tractor. Holt was in mostly continuous competition with CL Best tractor company until their merger in 1925 to create the Caterpillar Tractor Company, now one of the largest heavy equipment manufacturing corporations in the world.

@douro20

2 жыл бұрын

The Holt family still sells Caterpillar equipment out of San Antonio, TX.

If my dad was still alive? I know he would be out there with you!! He was in construction for 44 years!! Started as laborer all the way to an operator.

What a beast! Sounds absolutely beautiful too

nothing better to end a day, then watching and listening to old iron work,

I really impressed how well and quick he slewing clutches work,I do'nt know why I thought early machines suffered from poor steering, Probably my vague understanding of WW1 British tanks which was very crude in that department. Best and Holt had a head start and considersble expertise. Brilliant video

@pacificcoastpiper3949

2 жыл бұрын

Early caterpillar crawlers were pretty snappy too

@pvtimberfaller

2 жыл бұрын

If I recall correctly tanks had two steermen and had to change gears to turn. Look up the tank chats/British tank museum channel.

@DARANGULAFILM

2 жыл бұрын

@@pvtimberfaller Steering with braking each side of a differential subtracts power because the stalled driver causes increase in the rotational speed of the opposite free driver. In effect you change up to a higher speed but less powerful gear to the free driver. The secret is to allow momentum, then snatch on the brake lever in several short stops rather than just drag on it and rely on the engine alone to power the free driver around. External brake bands are a little self-energising in forward direction. They tend to be less efficient in reverse. Modern machines with hydraulic motors add power to the free driver in a turn. It is indeed wonderful stuff. It is terrifying to imagine what that machine would do to a driver going over a crest then dropping down on the other side. Sitting so far rearwards of the centre of pitch motion, the driver would be launched. There is a lot of exposed mechanism just waiting to embrace him on landing.

@simonworman7898

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I do know a wee bit driven D8's of most vintages day after day to earn me corn !together with Fiat's, Trak marshalls and Landini/MF on the farm, In fact early British Tanks had 2 bokes each with a spanner in hand nick named "lefty and righty"

Damn! that ole girl sure ran good! and the torque!!

I love the sound of that old girl!! You are braver than I, that seat looks a bit unsteady, easy to fall from.

Early 1900's and still runs!

No engine sounds sweeter than low RPM and muffler free. A days work on this tractor would be a DAY'S WORK!. But imagine how much more you get done with this and a plow than a team of horses.

@vladimirvlad2563

2 жыл бұрын

I think that in it good days it ran a little smoother that this.Not that now it doesn't run well.Those things were built to last.

It runs so darn nice! Like it's supposed to.

For such a big old machine , nifty in the right hands , lovely slow - down big cylinder engine note .

Music to my ears.

Just love to watch her moves.

That is an awesome machine! Dusty, Dirty, and Dangerous but looks like a whole lot of fun!

Such a shame that I live so far away from your location. I would just love to come and see your great old iron. Have to admit I am jealous of the old track machine.

ONE HELL OF A COLLETION

I love how the magneto is 4 horseshoe magnets with a rotor inside. Operator has to be agile, athletic, and focused. Quite a dance - while "seated."

@douro20

2 жыл бұрын

Telephone magnetos have a very similar construction.

Woo-hoo! You go Brian Baker! Get some!

It's kind of hard to imagine now, but approximately I'm 100 years ago, a bunch of farmers in a barn somewhere we're looking at that machine when it was brand new thinking about how high-tech it is. I'm sure they weren't using the term Hi-Tech, but that's what they were thinking.

What a marvellous machine, built before Push-Rod Lubrication. 60 years ago I ploughed a 40 acre field with a Fordson Major that had the same Sprung Seat, we merrily bounced from dawn to dusk.

That thing sounds great!

Love the tiller steering.

I would love to visit and meet this guy. This guy could probably fix anything. People like this are far and few between. Very good video, thanks for sharing 👍🏼

amazing low end torque, its not even working hard ,love it 👍

Holy Smokes one thing to see a picture but seeing running , no wonder my Grandfather loved his job , look at that beast Purrring, hes steering a pissed off bull, lol

Keep them alive !! Pure heritage

Beautiful Sound! 👍❤️

Technology at its rawest...........love it !

I love thiff old stuff.

Wow what a machine

I love this sound

Amazing wonderfull maschin!

Good to see the old machines working today.nothing like them.

They sound so good when they're workin' hard as they can

what a wonderful machine.

Love the cup holder.

I sure love looking at older equipment and seeing all the hazards no guards around moving parts. Yet the old timers made it and lived to tell the story. Unlike people today that have to have “hot”stamped on there coffee cup from McDonald’s.

@shawnbottom4769

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: the coffee from that infamous lawsuit was between 160-180F. You could try dumping a cup of that in your lap just to see what happens. Also lots of old timers didn't make it or ended up maimed for life. All it took was a little fatigue and a miscalculation.

@scottriney3152

2 жыл бұрын

@@shawnbottom4769 Yup, survivor bias. The old timers who were killed by their tractors aren’t here to talk to us.

@paulcharlo9346

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂👍👍👍

One wild ride ,

That is so cool love them old machine

Nice sounds

wonderfull machine! Thanks for sharing. Cheers from France

what a beast!

I was just at a great antique Small engine show in Waterford California at our friend DJ's place and there was a holt 👍

Very cool.

Beast of a machine

This man is know in the area for obtaining items by less than legal means.

Don't fall off the seat when you're going backwards!

@kjellringstrom6217

2 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same. Those things was build before they invented the word "safety regulations"

@mackencycalecaballero7412

2 жыл бұрын

if happen,its unlikely that NTSB&FAA will be involved in thorough investigatio..

A smooth running engine

This is what a dozer should sound like!

@garychaney5484

2 жыл бұрын

I lived and worked on a ranch in south Texas 40 years ago or so with the nearest neighbors 5 miles up the road. Many was the night I went sleep to the sound of a hit-and-miss engine at night that was miles away but carried many miles on the dead still air! Not shure what it powered but I figured it had to do with oil wells. Occasionally I would here something that sounded like a massive jet taking off on the middle of nowhere and later found out that they were bleeding air from a natural gas pipe line! Great excitement when you go for weeks with absolute quite, except for the coyotes at night. Well also those nap of the earth flying airplanes going to and from old Mexico!!!

That old cat just screams smooth.

Amazing. And a petrol engine too!

Cool tracks, I'd be a bit nervous to say the least going in reverse with that flimsy seat. One bump or buck to knock you off and you get crushed under a track if you aren't quick to recover.

I would love to have this lol

Amazing operators didnt fall of this thing and run themselves over

What an impressive machine. It almost has a menacing look to it.

that " Safety Starter " is genius .

I couldnt imagine having to ride on that thing all day bouncing around like that. Tough men in those times.

Verry nice♥️♥️

It runs and drives!!!

very good

Salt and iron, awesome!

Something about old iron that i just enjoy

That is one healthy engine

👍👍👍 ❤️ thes machines ! 👍👍🤛🤛🤛

Cool vid, I was actually expecting that little chain to snap and cut that guy in the white shirt in half. He was standing right next to it too. Very brave, and stupid.

I'd love to ride one of that!

The sight and sound of history of track layer machines! How far have we come. Computer software junk! Give me the older version and I will be happy 😊! They still do the job! Just you have to use your head and some good old muscles! No emissions crap . The good old days.

Increibleee

She’s a wild bit of kit lol

Nice

One of two ever assembled

@zeusapollo8688

2 жыл бұрын

Is that a holt moto or something else?

Thats sweet as a nut, what a tune!

Good vidio

I lost track of counting the ways a man could get killed, maimed, or sliced and diced on this machine. The good ole days.

@Urbicide

2 жыл бұрын

Back when men were men & not pussy's!

For a little while it will be fun to play around with but to use that machine all day and Wood where somebody out

Sou fascinado por máquinas antigas... São simples duráveis... onde passa chama a atenção. Na minha concepção melhores que as novas.

Ah the good old days when machines were machines. Back before Osha, emissions, egrs, dpfs, computers. Never will you find a dozer built today that will last 100 years from now.

@feedthecownow

2 жыл бұрын

That is what I was thinking. No covers no safety stickers just people with common sense using it. The days before lawyers and punitive damages

@johnjohnson-sm3yf

2 жыл бұрын

@@feedthecownow You sir took words right out of my mouth. Common sense has long gone in today’s world. My father , uncles, grandpa etc grew up working in coal mines . I cld only imagine men now days using equipment like this or what they had to do and use just to provide for there families.

@allangibson2408

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnjohnson-sm3yf Underground coal miners were extremely lucky to reach retirement age before MSA got involved. If a blast in the mine didn’t get them the coal dust in their lungs did.

@allangibson2408

2 жыл бұрын

@@imd1b4u More correctly it is a Caterpillar tractor… (Holt changed their name later (it also formed the basis for the first generation of German tanks (before they were panzers))).

@allangibson2408

2 жыл бұрын

@@imd1b4u The German A7V reply was built on the tracks and runners of a German manufactured Holt crawler - it wasn’t a copy of the English tank (although the Germans did operate a lot of captured English tanks).

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(Posted by Rick Pickell) She's definitely one bare bones piece of equipment.