Vickers Bulldozers like this one and Caterpillar D8s were used to build Wellington Airport in New Zealand. The Operators preferred the D8s though, as they had more torque, and were heavier and more reliable. The Vickers’ swinging final drive, which followed the ground better and therefore created extra traction, was an extra complication that needed extra maintenance. The tracks were linked using rubber bushes which wore quickly and were then inclined to throw off when turning at speed. The engine, a supercharged 6 cylinder diesel, was relatively high horsepower, but low torque and had high fuel consumption. The Vickers were abandoned after the job, considered not worth the cost of refurbishing.
@@stewartfenton7660 Oh yes Allis Chalmers were far ahead of Caterpillar in modern design with sealed rollers and other more modern design features in the early 50s International Harvester made a good product too probably both on a par with Caterpillar in the 50s but later Cat gear was more superior I guess
Thank you so much for allowing us to hear the beautiful sound of the Rolls-Royce engine. Love the sound of engine and power, thank you again !!! Fm. Southfield. Michigan.
I did my apprenticeship with the New Zealand agents for Rolls-Royce diesels. I have only seen one Vickers bulldozer though. Most of what we worked on were C8s or Dv8s. And C6s. They were either powering generators, small railway locomotives or trucks.
Thanks for posting. I would agree with others that Cat had a great range of dozers with good parts supply and backup. However Vickers did slowly improve becoming a bit more dozer than tank. The example shown here seems to be going very well, moves back and forth quickly. Hope you get many hours of fun out of it.
@@dicksonwanjihia5615 But you are comparing a “state of the art “ Cat with something that is close on 70 years old, and nowhere near the size and horsepower of the Cat !
If the speed is fast, it is proportional to the thrust, just like the machine uses a gearbox, the lower the number, the stronger it is but the movement of the machine is slow.
WOW! The operator knows his machine and uses it all! Listen to the engine and watch the operator, "a little further...... Ok". What a great video of a fantastic team!
What a great video. My dad had a couple of VR180's in the 70's and 80's. One of them had a ripper on. Still can hear the sound of those engines. Wish I could see one, but they are all gone for scrap metal. What a pity. South Africa
These were built at Vickers,Newcastle.We had one on the vickers range in Northumberland.I made a new set of stub axles for it in the eighties.Prior to the Vigor a Tractor was made using hull and running gear from Sherman tank.The hull was reversed and one set of wheels removed.There is a photo of this in a book on the Vickers tanks.The vehicle was called the Shervic.
The toy version was used to provide the running gear for several vehicles in the TV series Thunderbirds, notably the Mole, Firefly and Recovery vehicles, along with a number of half-tracks
Because of the Rolls Royce engine, you can put dollar coin on sideways standing on the bonnet, when engine is idling. But seriously that is nice sounding and good looking machine.
Great job,thanks.I was told by someone who drove one of these that they were very fast in highest gear and top gear was usually blocked off to limit top speed.
Yes because down hill at speed the engine became powered by the tracks, a faulting gearing and low compression engines. Possible to overspeed the engine in idle, going down hill.
Nice vlog I love it and I watched it all day , I learn little things here and there that I apply to my own tracked equipment ( link-belt excavator) nice thanks BigAl California
When I served my time. The company I worked for used D8, sometimes with a scraper to get rid of surface soil to dig foundations. The driver was the dad of my fellow apprentice and boy could he handle that big girl.
Vickers also built locomotives,one type being the Metro-Vick electrics on the Metropolitan Railway,later London Transport,etc.!! There were Tube cars built also,but that would take a small encyclopedia to cover the production! That dozer just gave off,do not argue with me,I'll run you over!! HEAVY DUTY,and then some!! Thanks for your efforts and time!! 😇
The Vickers Metropolitan locos were the first diesel electrics to be used by CIE in Ireland. They were rubbish, mainly because very poor diesels. After the first batch started work CIE bosses looked around for a better loco and ended up buying GM ones from the US. Later on the Irish Vickers were re engined by CIE, using GM engines. The story goes that Vickers and the British government at the time were less than happy with the boffins in Inchicore.
When. I would push with a dozer I would start out digging half my blade an by the time I got to where I needed it it was full but I mostly pushed fill for lifts for filling in ditches. Nice job the thing is awesome the old machines.
I like the way those tracks seem to "follow" the ground....must enhance its "grip" characteristics me thinks. Vickers might have evolved to a more formidable rival to CAT if it was US based.
9 mins of a doser just going back & forth……. Candy for my eyes & ears!! I noticed that the doser had two trunions on each side. I know it isn’t done presently. But I wonder how it would compare to the newer standard style with the bogies on a single beam? The trunions looked like they did a great job following the ground. Thanks for the great video!
It really has the wrong tracks for the job. The ones on the Cat are the ones to have to push dirt. No spinning there. It's still an effective, functional, cool tractor. Sounds good too.
I have heard of these but have never seen one operating. They seem to be far better engineered than a Caterpillar for operations and driver comfort. I own and use a 1952 D4.6U and it is as rough as guts. It may be smaller but is far less well built especially in the blade and undercarriage and nowhere near as nimble or stable. It is like riding a bicycle, rowing a boat and getting kicked up the arse all at once. Bloody awful, rough, slow and uncomfortable as the driver position seems as though it was built for a pygmy. That machine needs a proper rops scrub canopy.
Listen to the modern CAT undercarraige clattering away by comparison! No transient smoke either due to supercharger rather than turbo. No lag = no smoke, longer oil changes.
Doesn't seem to lack power and is very nimble. New grousers and some more weight and it would push very well. Has a nice snort as well. It's interesting how they keep the c-frame centred. Rollers on the hard nose instead of a cross link on the front. Ken
It actually works better than I thought it would. Really the grousers are wrong for a dozer, and all the rollers being independently suspended isn't optimal for dozer design, but it seems to work. Years ago I read about a company doing utility construction in Canada using a tank undercarriage for a crawler crane, but if I remember right it was for speed over rough terrain. I think it also had outriggers. It was a special "one off" built in their shop for a specific job
I don't know if it's from the same maker you speak of because there were a few. But DEBOSS Garage here on YT has such a chassis that came from a similar type of machine built for special off-road purposes. It's based off of the running gear from later versions of the Sherman using the wider tracks. The guy he bought it from rigged up a square-body Chevy pickup to the top of it and powered it with a big block v8. So now it's just an off-road toy. But, according to someone he had look it the chassis was originally built by a small one-off company who did special needs equipment and that the original machine was built to either rig power poles or run piping in swampy conditions. Either way it's neat monstrosity. :)
Excelente, es bien sabido por los que estamos en esto de la construcción, que las orugas de un tanque tienen un 200% mayor confort y el sistema de tracción es más ágil que el de un dozer de serie que es mucho más rigido y torpe, se que suena bastante millenial decirlo pero, todos los tanques del mundo deberían ser convertidos en dozer o excavadoras y donarlos a comunidades pobres o apartadas 😃🤔
The sound of that engine and the clear exhaust fumes tell me that it is very fine tuned, I have never seen that particular brand of equipment , look like a military heavy equipment, too bad it doesn't have an operator protecting equipment.
Rolls Royce made commercial engines too, and even gas turbines, separate from the motor car division. Some Scammell models for example featured Rolls Royce diesel engines.
Rolls Royce made industrial diesel engines. They were mostly used for power generation ,marine propulsion, Industrial locomotives and heavy haulage trucks. They did have their quirks like any other engines, but they were still very reliable, smooth and powerful for what they were.
Rolls Royce not only made autos but also manufactured industrial, marine and gas turbines. They are involved in a variety of different types of products right up to and including today. They are called Rolls Royce power systems. I hope that this was of help to you, Laurajane from New Zealand 🇳🇿
55 years an operator, that’s smoothest and quiet dozer of that vintage. I’m amazed. Thank you so much.
Vickers Bulldozers like this one and Caterpillar D8s were used to build Wellington Airport in New Zealand. The Operators preferred the D8s though, as they had more torque, and were heavier and more reliable. The Vickers’ swinging final drive, which followed the ground better and therefore created extra traction, was an extra complication that needed extra maintenance. The tracks were linked using rubber bushes which wore quickly and were then inclined to throw off when turning at speed. The engine, a supercharged 6 cylinder diesel, was relatively high horsepower, but low torque and had high fuel consumption.
The Vickers were abandoned after the job, considered not worth the cost of refurbishing.
They tried them or at least one at Benmore too (MOW ) but they wernt as good as a 2U D8 didn't last long down there either
Cool, didn't know that.
Did anyone, anywhere, ever build a crawler to beat the Cats? I know nothing about it, but I doubt it.
@@stewartfenton7660 Oh yes Allis Chalmers were far ahead of Caterpillar in modern design with sealed rollers and other more modern design features in the early 50s International Harvester made a good product too probably both on a par with Caterpillar in the 50s but later Cat gear was more superior I guess
@@mariebennett5739 I was under the impression that those makes may or may not have been more advanced, but Cats were higher quality and more durable.
That is a beast. Doesn’t lug down or nothing just push. That’s a damm good operator also.
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Emily...
I have never seen a dozer with Christie suspension before.
Thank you so much for allowing us to hear the beautiful sound of the Rolls-Royce engine. Love the sound of engine and power, thank you again !!! Fm. Southfield. Michigan.
What a beautiful sounding engine
absolutely
Bet he takes real good care of his equipment!!! A tank!!
I still prefer the sound of the old four cylinder Caterpillar engine.
Mini merlin engine ...
@@pshodean oooo
I did my apprenticeship with the New Zealand agents for Rolls-Royce diesels. I have only seen one Vickers bulldozer though. Most of what we worked on were C8s or Dv8s. And C6s. They were either powering generators, small railway locomotives or trucks.
When did you begin your apprenticeship? Really interesting 🤔
@@jackrichards1863 I believe I started my apprenticeship in 1969.I was working for the company before that though.
The smoothness of the ride is amazing! Suspension performance is on the level.
Thanks for posting. I would agree with others that Cat had a great range of dozers with good parts supply and backup. However Vickers did slowly improve becoming a bit more dozer than tank. The example shown here seems to be going very well, moves back and forth quickly. Hope you get many hours of fun out of it.
But cut is pushing three times more load.
Also Cat operator seems he is leveling which takes more concentration than pushing over burden
@@dicksonwanjihia5615 But you are comparing a “state of the art “ Cat with something that is close on 70 years old, and nowhere near the size and horsepower of the Cat !
Amazing video
If the speed is fast, it is proportional to the thrust, just like the machine uses a gearbox, the lower the number, the stronger it is but the movement of the machine is slow.
WOW! The operator knows his machine and uses it all! Listen to the engine and watch the operator, "a little further...... Ok". What a great video of a fantastic team!
I was just going to say," that is not the first time that man sat on a dozer"🙂
What a great video. My dad had a couple of VR180's in the 70's and 80's. One of them had a ripper on. Still can hear the sound of those engines. Wish I could see one, but they are all gone for scrap metal. What a pity. South Africa
Same thing here in USA lot older dozers went for junk
Dude cherish your memories my uncles were farmers and my dad said I don't want that for you.
The track doesn't make noise as the caterpillar, nice dozer and fantastic engine
Great Sound. I Love this Machine !
The six r could show that thing it's ass in about 2 minutes
These were built at Vickers,Newcastle.We had one on the vickers range in Northumberland.I made a new set of stub axles for it in the eighties.Prior to the Vigor a Tractor was made using hull and running gear from Sherman tank.The hull was reversed and one set of wheels removed.There is a photo of this in a book on the Vickers tanks.The vehicle was called the Shervic.
Too BAD GOOGIES WILL NOT LET US FWD. THIS
Rolls diesels are dependable!! This is one of the smoothies operating dozers i ever seen operating
I could listen to that engine all day long and I'd really like to own and operate one.
He's still a good old guy. Looks like an afternoon of fun😎
мужчине с гипсом на руке респект и уважение.всем благ.
That's a very cool dozer. Love it.
Awesome looking bulldozer
Id love to drive this
I love the sound of it! I also like the track design!
Engine runs as smooth as brand new one and plenty of power. That track squeaking I'd have to do something bout that
The toy version was used to provide the running gear for several vehicles in the TV series Thunderbirds, notably the Mole, Firefly and Recovery vehicles, along with a number of half-tracks
I though it looked familiar! 😂
i did wonder where i saw those tracks & wheels combo' before ..........
I love the way the bogies follow the contour of the ground. I have not seen this on any other caterpillar machine. This is a superior system. 👍
There's a reason why Cat doesn't do that, though... Added complexity = added failure-points. Simple is better.
Great sound! Good dozer.
Because of the Rolls Royce engine, you can put dollar coin on sideways standing on the bonnet, when engine is idling. But seriously that is nice sounding and good looking machine.
100% could fall asleep listening to that engine. Such a healthy sounding beast.
Great job,thanks.I was told by someone who drove one of these that they were very fast in highest gear and top gear was usually blocked off to limit top speed.
Yes because down hill at speed the engine became powered by the tracks, a faulting gearing and low compression engines. Possible to overspeed the engine in idle, going down hill.
@@miketrusky476 Makes sense,thanks for commenting.Probably designed by a committee of'this that and the other'!
That tractor sounds good. Seems unfair w d7 pushing next to it lol
Thanks for sharing with us, fun to watch this one.
Beautifull Machine ,good operator.
Nice vlog I love it and I watched it all day , I learn little things here and there that I apply to my own tracked equipment ( link-belt excavator) nice thanks BigAl California
Rapaz rssss que trator 🚜 da peste é rsss.... Parece um tanque de guerra rsss
When I served my time. The company I worked for used D8, sometimes with a scraper to get rid of surface soil to dig foundations. The driver was the dad of my fellow apprentice and boy could he handle that big girl.
The engine sounds good
Awesome Classic UK machine.
I think when Caterpillar first Started , they were English , but the Darling Yanks ! Bought the Company out ! It's only J.C.B ! now in the U.k !
@@davidwillard7334 😂 Most Americans are from Europe Russia anyway.
Cheers 🥂
That's the neatest thing I've ever seen.
Spent many hours on one of these when I was a young boy and my uncle drove one for pic never forget the souns
The Vickers Vigor chassis was used by Gerry Anderson for the Mole and other tracked rescue equipment in Thunderbirds.
But that ! Was All BRAINS ! Ideas !
@@davidwillard7334 I agree ☝️
Man I sure would like to know a little more history on that dozer. Damn thing pretty cool.
Merhabalar
Classic Bulldozer 👍👍👍👍👍
Now that was awesome……. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for sharing, seems impressive for the time
Vickers also built locomotives,one type being the Metro-Vick electrics on the Metropolitan Railway,later London Transport,etc.!! There were Tube cars built also,but that would take a small encyclopedia to cover the production! That dozer just gave off,do not argue with me,I'll run you over!! HEAVY DUTY,and then some!! Thanks for your efforts and time!! 😇
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The Vickers Metropolitan locos were the first diesel electrics to be used by CIE in Ireland. They were rubbish, mainly because very poor diesels. After the first batch started work CIE bosses looked around for a better loco and ended up buying GM ones from the US. Later on the Irish Vickers were re engined by CIE, using GM engines. The story goes that Vickers and the British government at the time were less than happy with the boffins in Inchicore.
Pensa uma máquina de esteira, arranjada. Sua lagata com uniformidade incrível, com estes 3 carretéis grandes o link, mantem o lance . Top top
Rides better than the newer D 9t, D 10t Dozier's. Out performs bogie rollers any day.
Great treadmill machine looks old and very powerful 👍
Awesome machine thanks for posting
Definitely a different sound. They just squeak. They don’t sound like they are falling apart like a regular dozer’s tracks
Суровый трактор, суровый водитель 💪. Это вам не Caterpillar с кондиционером
Sure beats the hell out of a shovel and a wheelbarrow that I used the last 70 year's.
That rolls Royce diesel sounds good
Love the sounds off big diesel
When. I would push with a dozer I would start out digging half my blade an by the time I got to where I needed it it was full but I mostly pushed fill for lifts for filling in ditches. Nice job the thing is awesome the old machines.
Now ! That's ! A Bulldozer ! Caterpillar ! Would ! Be Quite ! jealous of ! Having ! Thanks for showing yours !
I like the way those tracks seem to "follow" the ground....must enhance its "grip" characteristics me thinks. Vickers might have evolved to a more formidable rival to CAT if it was US based.
They wernt as good as a 2U Cat D8
9 mins of a doser just going back & forth…….
Candy for my eyes & ears!!
I noticed that the doser had two trunions on each side.
I know it isn’t done presently. But I wonder how it would compare to the newer standard style with the bogies on a single beam?
The trunions looked like they did a great job following the ground.
Thanks for the great video!
First time seeing a Dozer with three large idle rollers.
It really has the wrong tracks for the job. The ones on the Cat are the ones to have to push dirt. No spinning there. It's still an effective, functional, cool tractor. Sounds good too.
Potencia total ! a pesar de sus años la máquina se gana el día.
Thanks so much for posting this video but more importantly thanks to all the guys who provided feedback, some really interesting comments
Parabéns, muito bonito o antigão. Em perfeito estado de conservação
Great machine, running perfect and pushing good. Only thing I would change is putting grouser risers on the tracks for more traction.
Whats thepulley system on the bigger Excavator? Havnt seen that before??
I have heard of these but have never seen one operating. They seem to be far better engineered than a Caterpillar for operations and driver comfort. I own and use a 1952 D4.6U and it is as rough as guts. It may be smaller but is far less well built especially in the blade and undercarriage and nowhere near as nimble or stable. It is like riding a bicycle, rowing a boat and getting kicked up the arse all at once. Bloody awful, rough, slow and uncomfortable as the driver position seems as though it was built for a pygmy. That machine needs a proper rops scrub canopy.
Desde Venezuela Juan Castillo que maquinaria tan versátil que buena máquina es impresionante verla como trabaja
This is the machine I need in Puerto rico a bigger one. I have to get the river connected and remove some forestry and make a pathwalk.
Listen to the modern CAT undercarraige clattering away by comparison! No transient smoke either due to supercharger rather than turbo. No lag = no smoke, longer oil changes.
Doesn't seem to lack power and is very nimble. New grousers and some more weight and it would push very well. Has a nice snort as well. It's interesting how they keep the c-frame centred. Rollers on the hard nose instead of a cross link on the front. Ken
Engine sounds smooth as glass.
6 new vickors delivered on hs2 last week
Now this looks like a real bulldozer !
Bella,ruspa,bravo,operatore,semplice,machina,operatrice,motore,forse,di,sette,imagino,complimenti,bel,lavoro,😊😮
A smooth running machine I like those tracks
Nice machine. Read they did have problems with throwing tracks. Still, great design. Wouldn't mind owning one.
It actually works better than I thought it would. Really the grousers are wrong for a dozer, and all the rollers being independently suspended isn't optimal for dozer design, but it seems to work. Years ago I read about a company doing utility construction in Canada using a tank undercarriage for a crawler crane, but if I remember right it was for speed over rough terrain. I think it also had outriggers. It was a special "one off" built in their shop for a specific job
I don't know if it's from the same maker you speak of because there were a few. But DEBOSS Garage here on YT has such a chassis that came from a similar type of machine built for special off-road purposes. It's based off of the running gear from later versions of the Sherman using the wider tracks. The guy he bought it from rigged up a square-body Chevy pickup to the top of it and powered it with a big block v8. So now it's just an off-road toy.
But, according to someone he had look it the chassis was originally built by a small one-off company who did special needs equipment and that the original machine was built to either rig power poles or run piping in swampy conditions. Either way it's neat monstrosity. :)
Вот бы такую ходовую на С-80 илиС100 наверное лучше бы было.
Excelente, es bien sabido por los que estamos en esto de la construcción, que las orugas de un tanque tienen un 200% mayor confort y el sistema de tracción es más ágil que el de un dozer de serie que es mucho más rigido y torpe, se que suena bastante millenial decirlo pero, todos los tanques del mundo deberían ser convertidos en dozer o excavadoras y donarlos a comunidades pobres o apartadas 😃🤔
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That’s cool. Even the rear final drives had suspension.
Dusty what do you do wash cars for a living??
The sound of that engine and the clear exhaust fumes tell me that it is very fine tuned, I have never seen that particular brand of equipment , look like a military heavy equipment, too bad it doesn't have an operator protecting equipment.
That old boy sounds good 👌
That engine sings so sweet
I think this is air transportable Vietnam era dozer.
I would expect a drinks cabinet on there, in walnut , port, brandy and hypoid 90
Master operator !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That thing makes sweet music!
Love the way she barks!
Muito bom mesmo gostei parabéns
Maquina grande muito bom mesmo gostei
Ich bin verliebt in Maschinen
Beatiful Desde. Mexico
I see no black smoke. Is it petrol powered?
6 Cylinder Diesel
Muy buena maquina es una joya y la maneja bien el motorists lo felicito solo le falts techo
Прикольный тракторок! И звук мотора классный.
Сам работаю на Четре.
Raw power on that puppy
Neat little tractor isn’t it
Máquina forte , tudo de bom a você 👍👍👍
Dozer and crain is my favourite machine ❤️❤️❤️❤️
That thing looks like it came out of Who Framed Roger Rabit
And, the operator has a broken wrist!!! Great work
Is it a car engine Rolls-Royce or specifically made for dozers?
Rolls Royce made commercial engines too, and even gas turbines, separate from the motor car division. Some Scammell models for example featured Rolls Royce diesel engines.
Rolls Royce made industrial diesel engines. They were mostly used for power generation ,marine propulsion, Industrial locomotives and heavy haulage trucks. They did have their quirks like any other engines, but they were still very reliable, smooth and powerful for what they were.
Yes I remember repairing a gen set in Sierra Leone.. on a brush alternator... beautiful sound, bags of power ...
Rolls Royce not only made autos but also manufactured industrial, marine and gas turbines. They are involved in a variety of different types of products right up to and including today. They are called Rolls Royce power systems. I hope that this was of help to you, Laurajane from New Zealand 🇳🇿
@@lauramildon-clews7850we had them in Petbow Generators, big straight 8 Cylinder Engines 45 years ago now.