Caterpillar D7 1T 1941 Still at work
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2014
- Caterpillar D7 1T 1941
Originally armour plated with a Blaw Knox blade but now fitted with a LeTourneau blade. 8 C.C.U from a D7 M
The lorry that brought the caterpillar in was a Kenworth Detroit. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Pony motor cranks right up, main engine also cranks right up, Kenworth sounds sweet...take a note boys this is how you make money with proper care , maintenance and skilled operation. A pleasure to watch.
Proper care but with no Safety control on sight as the guy who is taking the Video is standing unprotected on the Dozer behind the operator, absolute lunacy.
Great old machine, still running so well.
80 years old now , quality machine built to last , with service in mind
Beautiful truck. Beautiful Cat. Beautiful operating.
Great to see the old girl still going - as a kid my dad use to drive these logging - pulling logs in New Zealand always remember the start up procedure if a hill was around he'd park up a hill and reverse jump start in reverse 2nd gear - always may sure the oil pressure gauge was up before he'd pull the clutch in - great video and the sound of the cat motor heaps of torque low down
We had one like that at the concrete block plant.. We used it a couple times a year when we dozed over the scrap pile or during heavy snow removal. It would sit for months & start up just like that. This was back mid 70's so this is amazing to see.
Ours an ARMY surplus so it was olive drab.
did this for 20 years when i was a young man, don't miss it a bit, i made a good living but that was all, it'll make you an old man quick with plenty of hemorrhoids an skin cancer.
That is Gorgious old truck pulling that nice old dozer love the coffin on the back
Love that cat sound
In 1957 I dug up and replanted all of our 40 acres in California with a WWII D7 and a 3-tooth chisel, land scraper, and finished with a 45' land plane. Then bladed in the check ridges for irrigation. The equipment was rented for the Local Soil bank and cost $10/hr for the D7 and one implement. $50 for delivery and an additional $50 each for the scraper and land plane. BTW, I was 14 years old at the time and a freshman in HS. The rework of our dairy farm grassland was an FFA project!
dwight dolliver Impressive!
Started, and operated one of these many-a-times.
The D7 3T was My father's favourite toy :)
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My dad had an old D7 of the same vintage. He later got a D6 hydraulic. He also had two D4s, both a narrow gauge and a wide gauge.
I grew up on a rice farm in Arkansas. My great grandfather, grandfather, and
great uncle used a D7 exactly like this one to build levees to divide our fields and control our water. I never saw it run but I remember it sitting in in our pasture until it was sold for scrap in the 1980's. They also had a 1957 Marion dragline. Thanks for the great video!
Don't know what part of the state you are from, but damn I'm tired of the damn mosquitoes that go along with all the irrigation, (mostly rice). As soon as the drainage/runoff/leaks fill the surrounding ditches the mosquitoes breed faster than rabbits.
I remember sitting on my Dads lap while he operated these old Caterpillar 3T's and newer International TD18's
Ya I have my dads old one...he made it easier to run though converted to electric start! I still remember the pony motor though, quite involved, pretty neat
jstbig1 - you took the words out of my mouth!
My uncle had one of these when I was a child. Me and my cousin loved watching him operate it and we would play on it when he had it parked on the lowboy in their yard in between jobs.
Thank you for this bit of history.
Now there is a real 'Cat skinner' . He never even came close to 'two blocking ' the dozer. For those of you who don't know what that means, it is when the operator brings the two cable pulleys together and snaps the cable that lifts the dozer blade. You can also tell this mans skill by how he worked the dozer from the right side so he could keep an eye on his grade by looking down between the engine and the tracks on the left side. Nicely filmed.
+Gary Smedley even the worst operator in the world will only do that once (break the cable)
alvie2 Well I guess I qualify as the worst of the worst operators in the world (lol). I spent over 40 years as a heavy equipment operator in so. California USA and very early in my career I was hired to operate a DW21 Cat scraper that was operated by cable for the hoist and the crowd. I never had any problem with the hoist because I could clearly see where the "two blocks" came together , however it took me a week of breaking a total of 5 crowd cables to finally learn how to not two block it. The mechanic hated my guts and wanted me fired and I have no clue as to why the company kept me around. Thanks for responding.
Never broke a cable. But every time we broke something that wasn't from natural wear and tear, we had to assist the mechanic getting our machine back in operating order. LoL
Спасибо, что опубликовали это.
Thank you for posting this.
THAT is the way to run a straight drive cable blade 7. That is his baby, you can tell. SMOOOOOTH!! The old 4-banger in the 7 and the 8-V in the K.W. will make your heart hurt. Music to deaf ears! MORE Please!! (me)
Chummlee under blade with Doface is starting it 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻
In the 80s, I knew several old school gold miners in Alaska that swore by cable cats. They said without hydraulics, you could just walk away from them in the winter time, then when spring came, they were ready to go again.
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I guess I'm kinda off topic but does anybody know a good site to stream new tv shows online ?
@Rocky Jay lately I have been using FlixZone. You can find it on google =)
@Pablo Dustin Definitely, I've been watching on flixzone for years myself =)
@Pablo Dustin Thank you, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it!
Pretty smooth operator
I like that hes running engine without lugging it
very nice work !
To operate a machine like that must have been a monstrous work at the end of the day, the man must be very tired.
fine dozer great driver wounderful combination thanks for the video grand unit and trailer also ,, greetings from ireland
Wow that's a kenworth in Europe!
I've seen it all now!
Mike Woodworth With a Detroit, no less!
thats what I thought
I know..rarer than hens' teeth.
I was expecting a big V8 Scania in front of that Low loader
The Ol' Gal is in good shape!!!
Thank you for the discrimination!!
Kinda figured it would have had to have been originally armored, given the year it was built. Cool piece of history and a nice working girl!!! Thanks for the video!!
beautiful ..reminds me my father and me kid near him ,,,beautifull
1941? That Cat sure is durable. Amazed that there are parts available
Beautiful to watch. A lot of levers and watching going on. Makes today themselves look wholly inadequate
Awesome truck love that whine from the detroit
Spend Manny years on 17a same as this one only with a blower skidding logs in the mountains around golden bc good old days
Well now, there's a venerable old Caterpillar dozer still doing it's work, with the excellant help of a well qualified operator. I was looking for the blade's cable blocks to come together,,..but he's too good to allow that.
Great video,...but I would like to see this video done with a couple of more steady cameras one on the ground and the other from on top. And oh by the way,...try not to use a Go-Pro with that darned 'bird's eye lens.
P.S. Somebody sure keeps his Kenworth clean. Pride in ownership, shines through.
Damn that guy under that blade is dangerous he should have a block or something bracing that being under that blade
I always preferred to run one with a cable blade vs the hydraulic. But I hated having to start those pony motors on the ones that had it. Saw a couple of people get injured by the crank handle when the pony motor kicked back. It's been a lot of years but I think all the ones I ran, the crank handle was inserted at the front. Low and off to the left side of the radiator. Ran and old slide bar D8 once and hated it.
My D7's pony motor started on top as this one did. I still have my 1947 cable blade machine. This video is making want to get it going again. Thanks to all.
My first Cat; pulling a mole drainer in Suffolk. Do seem to remember pony motor cracked from the left side, nearer the back. Oh and I did park it on its side in a ditch once...ouch!
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Great video !
Took me right back to 57!
You need three hands to operate that thing so inefficient bulldozers have come a long way
Real skill is a whole job done without braking the cable when pushing large rubble. Should a large rock start rolling under the blade and lifting it while making the fill, you better start hoisting quickly! And then, stop the tractor to make another go at it. Once the blade rolls over the rock, it falls, and the cable goes snap! Chances are this guy is looking everywhere in a state of paranoia so as to react in time and prevent this sort of thing from happening. "Then stop the tractor" is i reference to the blade will not hoisting once you disengage the clutch on these direct drive machines. I have run a 3T, 17A, and 48A series all with cable blades and pony start. The 48A had power shift and was the last of the D7s with the four-cylinder D339 engine. A machine like this has a dry clutch and unpleasantly hot floorboards in the summer. If looking for an old tractor, oil clutch (Later 3Ts, 17A, or newer) is the way to go. The 48A / 47A series have steering clutches and brakes running in oil which makes them better machines yet. When Cat put the small six-cylinder (3306 engine) in the D7F, it was more of a regression than an improvement much like with cars being produced around that same time.
After doing this 8+ hours a day for 10+ years you'd be in pretty good shape lol right arm strong
in great condition
just proves how good these machines are as everlasting fighters and toilers of grand earthmoving‼️🥂
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very cool man
A lot like my 1956 D7C
Isn’t the dude crawling under the blade performing a safety nightmare?
Neighbor had one passed away maybe still in the woods had pony & cable system.
Doubt it. Looks like it is sitting up on the deck
That was my thought too but if you look at around 4:40 you can see it has safety chain stopping it from dropping. I also noticed the operator waited until he was clear before using any controls.
Stephen Mcallister Thanks, I didn’t see the chain
I thought the exact same think when I saw it Dick Johnson.....the guy working on starting didn't even know he was there, he could have easily reached over and let the blade down.
Is it still going now?
That Kenworth was delicious. Got another video of it anywhere?
David Graham Yeah, an 8-V Bus Motor! Mercy, why is't it sitting in our yard!!!
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Well this is odd..an american truck on the roads of the uk..how do you manage with that here I wonder..?
What are you guys building? Awesome dozer by the way.
They were building a new car park on the Isle of Wight sea front, using the D7 to move and crush the chalk before laying down the final surface.
Love the IoW! Spent a few months living in Newport fixing up a boat at the Island Harbour Marina. It's mental during Cowes week, but I love the place.
Waiting for black smoke
I used to have one of these old girls kind of fun running, but my d6 b was lot faster and would push more hour for hour.
Ireland?
С этого D 7 и скопировали ЧТЗ 100. Все одинаково, даже количество котков, рычаги управления, топливный бак, кроме лебедки все аналогично. Даже звук одинаковый. Работал на сотке.
И воздхофильтр, типа в кабине😅
What do you call a sleeping bull? A bulldozer lol
100 $ per hour plus delivery
I now the 3T........
I started my driver "career" with the Soviet version of it,the Stalinec T-100,in the late 80s'.
The chassis was a bit smaller,that was around 16-18 tons,depends on attachments,the engine,with the 2 cilinder donkey engine was excatley the same
the sticks in the cab was also same,5 speed forward,4 to reverse,even the sound of the engine,and the drive train was 100% same.
Here is one,this one is an newer version,with hidraulic blade,and ripper,can see inside the cab the sticks.
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Here is an earlyer version,with rope operated blade,she is "rusty edition" ): .
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11:35 camera mans missing a digit.
Saw that also, maybe from hanging on cable-operated equipment?
Donald. Monmagny. St. Gilles.
Everybody praises the operators skills. But He is spreading the rock too thin.
he is doing fine
deksper ** I say we fire him.
He said it was chalk. Their breaking it up.
deksper ** And breaking up is hard to do.
No, he’s doing it perfectly. You couldn’t get it better if you were laser-guided!
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That guy undoing the binders is not very smart at all, or does not value life, one!!
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