Great video Pete !

I bet the #1 complaint was, no cold start up!!! It made me a little angry that I heard the semi engine more than the CAT!!!

@noobody3l

2 жыл бұрын

I support your statement

Sticking the camera in her pocket and it's still recording?

Forgot to say, whoever was behind the camera should never be allowed to EVER hold any other type of recording device EVER!!!

you muted the best part of any big equip moving.

Why mute the audio? Anyone that wants to watch big machinery wants to hear that diesel POWER!

Классный болотник, спереди и из далека на Т 180 похож! И "телепузики" в оранжевых комбинезонах прикольные.

@user-mq8qg2tk8s

2 жыл бұрын

С этими телепузиками хорошо только на войну собираться! Пока соберёшься - война закончится.

My home town of Tulare California, host of the biggest farm equipment show in the world

Thanks for finally letting us hear the diesel run. I was beginning to wonder?

Thats a custom caterpillar strech D8. Only one of a handful left in existance. Most are lost to crevasses in Antarctica. Made around the mid fifties.

These were custom built by Caterpillar for the US Antarctic Program in the mid to late 1950s They are powered with the D9 D353 engine as I recall, and not the standard D342. Tracks are so wide (60" if I remember) to keep them on top of the snow, they were never intended for dirt work. We tried never to bring them up off the ice onto dirt unless coming to the shop. Rebuilt the left side final drive on one in McMurdo in 1988. Engine doghouse was about 3 or 4 feet from the cab, so windows went down to the floorplates. Kills me that the manual drop deck gets so much attention. If you don't have a hydraulic lowbed, this is how it's done. Just look up "Cozad Lowbed"

@eatingamandarin

3 ай бұрын

Thanks captain.

That’s was made when people made things to last! New machines are designed as throw away after 20 years! Great to see a real piece of machinery still alive!

@juanasanelli6831

5 жыл бұрын

Entonces CATerpillar hacia maquinas para trabajar hoy las hacen para pasar trabajo

@gaetanodeluca7870

5 жыл бұрын

Btp

Nice piece of iron!!! I need one of those murray trailers, so simple!!!

@bobmcelyea9184

5 жыл бұрын

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what I that thing a stretched D-9? Those pads seem a little too wide to use for any soil conditions in Central Valley.

what year, what size

what happin to the sound?

I'd love to see Robert Price's reaction as he pulled up with his track press after giving you a pin and bushing turn quote over the phone...then see's this thing.

never been so excited in my life. and there's 2 blimps. productive team.

I’m more curious about the process of disconnecting the trailer. Suddenly the goose neck is reconnected to the truck and had initially been left attached to the trailer, which prevented the dozer from being unloaded. This raises the question of the competency of the driver! On reviewing this, I notice that the trailer was dropped onto the tarmac instead of being lowered in advance of the kingpin being disengaged as I understand from previous videos of this nature. It would be great to have a professional opinion of this driver’s method!

@rodfrost5051

2 жыл бұрын

I wondered the same thing, never seen it done that way, I still am not entirely sure what transpired there.

@stillwater62

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I thought for a minute this guy was going to rip the air hoses and trailer cord off. Then he drops the lowboy with the neck still attached to the trailer. This guy was incompetent to say the least and didn`t know what he was doing.

Where's the startup. The best part is missing.

maybe you should put on the uncut version of this video would be lot better to watch

How old is this puppy?

What year, make and model, I have never seen a configuration like this?

@dozer1642

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@donkeziah2564

2 жыл бұрын

Make, year and model please. I have never seen track/ tread that wide. Info please!

@donkeziah2564

2 жыл бұрын

I have NEVER seen track/tread that wide. That thing could walk on water!!!

@boneheadbonehead-sq3mt

2 жыл бұрын

@@donkeziah2564 Caterpiller D8. Made sometime in the early 1950's.

no sound?

Пеца, зачем звук выключил? Смотреть не на что, а вот звук мотора послушать было бы интересно.

How did the truck driver remove the the goose neck from the trailer after releasing the fifth wheel king pin ? Also the reconnection back to the trailer looked a bit "hokey". It would have been interesting to video the disconnecting and reconnecting of the trailer. Also, come to think of it, I don't recall seeing any chain binders on the unit. Must go back and look. Perhaps a sobriety test would have been in order..🙉🙊🙈😎. (ah yes. I saw the chain binders at :16 in the video)

@internazi

5 жыл бұрын

Thats called a Cozad trailer...they are great and not found in eastern parts of the US. Rest of the world has then fine too.

@plcwboy

5 жыл бұрын

To detach a mechanical detach, you unhook the fifth wheel, set trailer on the ground, unpin the neck locks, back the tractor back under the neck, pull the remaining neck pins, then pull the tractor and neck away from the deck. Reattaching is the reverse of detaching.

@plcwboy

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aqmTq7lxl5zHfpM.html

@rickferrucci5583

2 жыл бұрын

I wondered the same thing

What, I was waiting for the start up sound, gutted.

Looks like someone put a lot of money and work in that D 8 to do some serious swamp work. Do you have pictures of it working?

@wlogue

5 жыл бұрын

She's from Antarctica

@johnvanpomeren9254

4 жыл бұрын

These stretched D8s were built for the US Navy to use in Antarctica to tow sledges carrying huts and supplies out to field stations away from McMurdo Sound for scientific staff who were carrying out research projects and to tow sledges of goods from aircraft arriving on direct flights from New Zealand back to McMurdo Station. The Navy was down there provide logistical support. Quite a few machines like this one were shipped back to the Caterpillar dealer in Christchurch, New Zealand during the 1970s to be completely rebuilt. I worked on several of them there as an apprentice diesel mechanic.

missing sound is sad!

Great video of the inside of a pocket

One of the best things in this kind of video is the sound of a big diesel starting. Sadly you cut it out.

the camera shaker was working very hard in this video.

@veiledzorba

5 жыл бұрын

The least which could have been done would to have edited out the "monkey cam" at the end of the blade mounting sequence.

U left the best part out it starting up ???

Какая ширина гусеницы?

Wide tracks and wide operators.

How easy do those plates bend if ya hit sompathing?

@lesschattermoresplatter5769

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Owen if you’re talking about the track pads.... they don’t.

@jamesmoore3346

5 жыл бұрын

They're called 'grousers', it would take some really hard trying to bend one. I have seen them break though. Very hard material....

@tomt9543

2 жыл бұрын

I would imagine this thing was built to run on snow, given its history! Rock and dirt would be a whole different story probably! Never seen a LGP Cat with tracks THAT WIDE!!!

У нас т 100 так заводился и сталинец ну а т 130 ,т 170 итд завести можно из кабины .Нашли че удевить!

How did he move the neck of the tralor y did he take the goose neck off the 5th wheel? Never seen any one do it this way ? Somthing not working right i sopose

@plcwboy

5 жыл бұрын

To detach a mechanical detach, you unhook the fifth wheel, set trailer on the ground, unpin the neck locks, back the tractor back under the neck, pull the remaining neck pins, then pull the tractor and neck away from the deck. Reattaching is the reverse of detaching.

@plcwboy

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aqmTq7lxl5zHfpM.html

Love to watch big equipment in action!!!

She looks like one of the stretched D8's built for the South Pole trek in the 1950's complete with the gap in front of the cab for an extra fuel tank. There were still a number of them still working when I was there in the late 70's

Nevertheless saw track so wide looks auseme never get stuck on this machine !

It has the widest tread of any tractor I have seen. Will it walk on water?

@rodfrost5051

2 жыл бұрын

For extra weight so it does not fall off the bottom of Tha world.

Can’t hear nothing see you

I used to run a D5 set up like this in Norman Wells NWT. If I got it stuck it was really stuck, LOL.

Whomever muted the volume totally ruined this video.

@daw162

5 жыл бұрын

Probably someone in the background saying something inappropriate that had to be muted out.

@veiledzorba

5 жыл бұрын

Then you bleep that out, the sound muted RIGHT when the diesel was clutched in to the pony motor. Terrible timing.

Cutting the sound on the best part hearing the main engine start

where is sound ???? MFCKOFF

In the beginning, the driver drops the entire trailer?? later he has detached the gooseneck to unload?? WTF?

@jimmychanbers2424

2 жыл бұрын

He learned that from Google

At the risk of sounding like EVERY SINGLE OTHER COMMENT, Why oh why did you mute the sound when the pony motor was done bringing this beauty to life? I honestly don’t get it. (Nice orange onesie twinkle toes.)

Is this guy Santa???Sorta reminds me of him. A good looking machine that has been well maintained. Love those LGP tracks.

@morinjuncker7681

2 жыл бұрын

Great looking crawler

Exquisite.

Muy bonito

Só pode ser fora do Brasil

You could use that on ski slopes or peat bogs!, good looking machine!.

No audio, no information

Was she built to work in the swamp

@majormatt68

3 жыл бұрын

Custom built by Caterpillar in the '50's for the United States Antarctic Program

audio stopt

Thank God he wore a jump suit so we didn't have to witness the plumbers syndrome. OH YEAH! why did you mute the engine starting?

@annkasten8144

5 жыл бұрын

Phil Epstei

@annkasten8144

5 жыл бұрын

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@FabFunty

5 жыл бұрын

Plumber cleavage !

@lancetucker4518

5 жыл бұрын

That is one ugly bulldozer

i put a lot of hours on her when i worked on mcmurdo station back in 1992 pulled lots for loads to black island and pushed a ton of snow good old days

Great Video,,, and a Big "Mahalo" For Your Time and Effort... And For All The "Naysayers",,, "Eat Yellow Snow"... That Is Some Cat,,, I Wonder About Hours, and Track/Undercarriage Wear ??? Relatively "LOW HOURS" ??? She's a Beauty,,, And Pete, Tell The "Pilot Car Driver",,, "Job Well Done",,,

@gordbaker896

5 жыл бұрын

Escort car with useless Wide Load banner!!!

Operator doesn't understand pilot motor operation.They must be run longer than he did,

@earlborchardt4358

5 жыл бұрын

Pony motor, pony motor, pony motor, pony motor---------- get it

@alwynlinde9574

5 жыл бұрын

@@earlborchardt4358 In Australia and Caterpillar,,,Correct term PILOT motor start....Get your facts straight.Check with Cat specs....Pony is a Yank slang term.

' why need twin long wide tracks... try less move move shake shake videocamera... use a stabilizer camera

@hwoods01

5 жыл бұрын

It has 'super' wide tracks for use in snow. It was designed to use in the arctic/Antarctic. If you look closely its return roller frame is made of wood. Wood wouldnt last long in that job unfrozen.

Tulare proud 😁

Holy shaky cam.

Ah Yes, Makes me home sick ( Quinn 1975-2005 )

nice video shame the sound dropped out just as the main motor was being started by the donkey motor

Is she a sister to Mary Ann?

@tabuilder

5 жыл бұрын

No Bruce, she transitioned.

Шикарный болотоход!

No need to go into the bathroom the whole warehouse smelled when I walked in. I think the tall black guy with glasses was toking before I go inside, can’t say that for sure though.

Wouldnt like to hire these blokes on an hourly rate.

Legal e essa carreta

Why stop sound when engine started??? the whole reason for watching... didn't watch any more..THUMBS DOWN

....and that scraper looks like stiff-neck 'A' model 631

Everyone is right what a waste of time I would have loved to hear it start up

That thing run on vodka?

Молодцы умеют технику настоящую делать ...😯

Let me just beat this side cover in to submission.

Looks like a auction yard

Tractores de orugas anchas de baja presion Tractores asi se usaron en el polo sur cuando se hizo la pequeña america en 1957

@gaetanodeluca7870

5 жыл бұрын

Prosciutto De Luca Faeto

@gaetanodeluca7870

5 жыл бұрын

De Luca prosciutto faeto

That tractor has some big ass pads.

4:38 pony motor runnung and preheating the main engine

Этот монстр хорошо подойдёт для для добычи алмазов из кимберлитовых трубок...😕

Why no sound ?, Rubbish without.

Z😊

Weak camera work!

Must have cost a fortune to ship that Cat from Antarctica .

BIG BOYS WITH BIG TOYS,:-)

Tulare 559 Don't trust the 👮

more money than brains

Широкий гусеник хорошо давить метал.👍

@rodfrost5051

2 жыл бұрын

We used to use an old ww2 tank retriever to crush cars.

@user-mr8ph7kf8l

2 жыл бұрын

Не хорошо широким давить

That is possible the dumbest pilot car I have ever seen in my life. I had to pause the video and laugh uncontrollable for 20 minutes.

So this noisy little engine starts and then the sound cuts out. What is the sense in having the recording without the sound of the main engine. Not clever. Inf act rather boring. Not good. Dislike for this reason. Bad cameraman.

Yikes...The comments. Here's the story.justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/04/mary-ann-and-rebecca-d8-dozers-that.html

I must say, the moment you muted it, is the moment I lost interest. It totally wasted the first 5 minutes! I can't watch anymore. The Santa suit was funny though!

Disliked the video. First I have done In ages

Ruined by muppet camerawork

those are some fat tracks

@CoalChrome

5 жыл бұрын

looks like it started out life as a D9 but I have no idea what it is now

@philbox4566

5 жыл бұрын

Set up for Antarctica. You want as fat and as long as possible down there. Don't want to be dropping into a crevasse. Those things down there can be thousands of feet deep and no indication on top to show that they are there.

Dom mens....