About 40 years ago when we where kids I remember my grandparents living next door to a old abandoned wrecking yard full of these old retired earth movers, dozers, dump truck and excavators like the one in this video, some of the best memories I have are of us playing for hours at a time exploring, climbing on and pretending to operate these fascinating machines, good times!!!
I used to live on a farm next to an abandoned quarry, few dozers ,diggers,and a massive building type vehicle that had conveyer belts going in to and out off both ends,my brother and I used to play there years ago
One of the nice things about older machines is no computer tech for the manufacturer to keep tabs on so they can punish you for working on it yourself. Yeah, Im looking at you, John Deere!
I'm older than dirt and that's what I ran many years ago! You work them sticks all day every day and I guarantee you that you will not have any flabby muscles ! Still love to hear them old machines bellow ! 😊 Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
I worked for my uncle back in the eighties and he dug basements with an old bantam cable machine and to watch him it looked very difficult to operate but once you got the hang of it wasn’t bad
OH man ! I used to watch these Bucyrus Erie ' ditch diggers' as we used to call them,...laying pipe in my town. They caused me to be late for school more than once. I could watch them all day back then, and I'd still be late watching them now too.
Started running a 2U D8 back in 1972. This brings back memories. The steering frictions were tough to pull. The old timers back then said you could tell a 2U operator by his knuckles dragging on the ground when he walked.
I’ve got a Ruston Bucyrus 19 R-B , which is a slightly larger English-built machine, with the same front end. To get the best out of one of those cable trench hoes, tuck the dipper under the boom as it comes out of the cut, set the hoist clutch as the dipper teeth reach the top of the cut - start the swing as soon as the back of the bucket clears the cut. Leave the hoist clutch in through the swing and, as you approach the dumping point, slacken the drag brake and let the dipper run out to dump. Do not disengage the hoist until the dipper is empty and commence the return swing before the dipper has quite emptied. Slacken the hoist brake on the return swing, so that the dipper is just above the ground by the time you reach the cut - set the drag clutch an simultaneously lower the dipper into the cut for the next bite. Take an even slice through the cut so that the dipper slides through fast and easy. A fast fluid motion that’s easy on the machine and the operator, and moves most yards per hour ! I couldn’t do half of what you guys do with a hydraulic machine today, but in straightforward easy trenching, I could still give you a good run for your money !
Subix Barbarasson, splicing cable is an art form. That said, the productivity of these machines and the skill of the men who operated them when they were contemporary should not be underestimated.
Wow it’s amazing to think when this stuff came out it revolutionized the excavating industry! But from we have today this stuff is so inefficient, but still impressive to see them run! Nice pieces of history there. The first dozer I ever ran was a 1948 international track loader with a gas engine I thought that thing was a beast! Thanks for sharing Chris, very cool!
and in 20-30 years time you will look back on todays brand spanking new excavating technology and say how inefficient it is. Its very easy to say that now when you know how innovating technology is.
The tools may be more efficient but the workers are lazy asses these days. I love seeing job sites where you have 6 guys directing traffic and one morbidly obese guy playing with the excavator.
@@jimbeam9632 These old machines are really cool, but I´d rather have something thats dummy proof with several redundant safeties instead of something that doesn´t stop for anything if the operator fucks up.
My two uncles owned a construction company in the 40s and 50s. I never gave it much thought to how they worked before hydraulics until I saw a photo of them with their first excavators today. Now I'm here haha. Thanks for the upload.
I started on the cable 6s and 7s have great appreciation for the work they do! Brush and land clearing. Also great in hot Texas heat building stock ponds! Hydraulic tractors would overheat while these kept plugging along getting the job done !
Those old Cats are things of beauty, and I say that as an old Catskinner. And that Bucyrus-Erie 15-B, can’t beat ‘em. Never surprises me when I see Cats that old and still purring. They were built to last. And still are
Thank god I was born in 1969 not 1929. But very impressive to see how it was done years ago .We all should have a lot of respect for the men and women who did not have it as easy as we have it today.
"men and women" So tired of that false equating that we've been forced to adopt. Men got more done with improved technology. Women got all the labor saving stuff for the house and on the job and it just gives them more time to gripe and gossip.
Now that's what I call old schooling from a real man's world. Geez, that goes back to me grandad day it does. Blimey that's an old one. Me pawpaw used to run heavy equip. And I used sit on his lap I did. Thx for the memories mate. Really made me think of me grandad.
Wow that old digger. I started on a uh 121 Hitachi 37 plus years ago and back then it was state of the art. God it would have been great to see that old digger in the real
Growing up in the 60's, I remember dozers like this, cranes with cables controlling the boom and the only cylinders were on dump trucks. Ironically, My Tonka Dump truck had one too!. But the Wrecker had a winch.
Yea i was thinking how much slower it is vs. A modern machine but my dad said he helped grandad dig his drain fields buy hand in the early 60's so ""slow"" is matter of perspective
Ted Bell for one... I use to work for CAT Decatur, Il. Two... many of us Americans lost our jobs due to politics and are now being made over seas for a 1/4th less.
Politics? I don’t think so. Try capitalism. Your jobs went somewhere the costs were cheaper. I’m very sorry that you lost your job, but please don’t tell me that it’s about politics.
@@jaxflfreebird You really had to reply to a 2 year old comment just to correct him, that says a lot about you as a person. While I'm at it you start a sentence with a capital letter, and its "not" not "nor".
Old timers are very skilled with just about any manual machine they run. The trick is teaching us youngins to be passionate about it and learn from the old timer's skills
Good to see ppl making America great again...building parking lots...in the middle of the woods...with equipment made during the Spanish-American War. Two steps forward and three steps back is apparently considered progress these days.
Lived in An old house in northern Ky where state route 16 and 17 came together. I used to ride on a CAT D8 with an operator H.F. many hours of pure pleasure.
I’d heard about cable and brake excavators. But I guess I’m spoiled. Been operating for almost 20 years and since I started machines have come along way since I started. Back in those days the operator worked harder then the labours lol. The machines now are like Cadillacs. My job is a job after all these years but I’m grateful I don’t hate it or getting up everyday. And thanks to the union it pays very well too. Love the old machines. Oldest dozer for me was a 1970 Cat D6. Not a cable machine
Old iron is cool but new iron is so much nicer to run all day. We do enjoy playing with our old tractors in the fields from time to time. Let’s us know how good we have it now.
Used to be one of those cable driven excavators near my house when I was a kid. It sat in the weeds with some other equipment for ever. Would love to have it now.
Wow, four years later. Glad to see somebody who gets it. I too am in my 60's and we (Baby Boomers) are the last generation to have seen the REAL AMERICA in person. People don't grasp what that means. Gen X came of adult age during Reaganomics and Clinton and only saw the carcass of the REAL AMERICA. Albeit dressed up in handsome burial clothing and in faux patriotic bunting around the casket. BTW, History's Medical Examiner did an autopsy of the old America but, the causes and suspects are sealed up indefinitely as a certain Tribe and its accomplices may never be held liable even though the toxicology report points straight to them. The Millennials might have heard stories about the real America but, those stories mean nothing as America is nowhere to be found in everyday living; save for the occasional artifact they might stumble across. Gen Z doesn't even know what America is or was. They are told that we represent everything that is hatefulsexistracistantiSemitichomophobebigotedmeanspiritedintolerantWhitesupremacisttoxicmasculinityTrumpLostgetoverit.oy.veh.
now that's what I am talking about ... nothing beats the Old School equipment with pure raw Horsepower & pure cold hard steel for the job... Yeah " modern" machines can do the job faster,.. BUT.. I mean when you look at / watch these beasts at work and consider they are still going strong & getting the job done and their age .. and compare it to today's modern equipment made with all electronics, hydraulics & cheaper steel & parts and their lifespan / and how many average work hours they last before something goes wrong (in many cases if anything electronic / electric goes wrong the computer shuts it down automatically) there is no comparison ( like my Grandfather ( who used to operate an old shovel) would say ... the less electric / electronic / & other junk you have on the equipment means there is less that can go wrong )
For some 20 years, I've been cleaning my acreage in southwest MS, STILL finding pieces of these cables in the ground. Even found some cylinder sleeves where someone re-sleeved an engine in the woods.
There is a similar show with old equipment in Virginia in september- field Day of the past- in Goochland just west of Richmond.. they even run an old steam shovel..
Roland Mn has 4 steam shovels all running at the same time during labor day week end every year . One of the largest threshing show in the us. Construction equipment, farm equipment, train, horses doing farming operations. You can't even to begin to see all of it in one day. They have stationary engines 20 ft tall . One engine 67ft. Long. I have been there the last 2 years , and still haven't seen all of it. It truly is an amazing place.
I like, at least no oil leaks, filters or hoses to break, no rams or hydraulic pumps to fail, no costly oil refills or costly electronics plus they are environmentally friendly, the excavator although slow is still a useful machine.
Hard to imagine even older excavator technology than this built stuff like the Panama Canal. Makes ya realize how far technology has come in just 100 years.
Sure if you operate your gear only during daylights for 8 hours a day, but now 24-7 is where it’s at. 75000hrs and 5 complete rebuilds and 5 half is what the life of a dozer is now.
Growing up my dad had a Bcyrus similar to the one shown. He had the Hoe, dragline and shovel booms for it. Later on the be replaced by a Bantam Shield and a Link Belt drag line. All cable driven, talk about exercise.... if dad said to do something you had better do it because if he ever grabbed you it was like having your arm in a vise. Miss those days...
I remember as a little kid watching bulldozers and other types of heavy equipment all having cable controlled blades, etc. The weight of the blade controlled down force, unlike today hydraulic controls give two way control.
2:00 wonderful to see the vintage equipment doing their thing...funny how the modern day stuff doesn't appear to do it any better despite the change to hydraulics.
That's very cool! When I 1st started operating in 1982-3 - My 1st dozer was a 'cable-8.' Took a little getting used to, but I learned. My 1st job was clearing an area for a bunch of sports fields for a city park. Took us a week. I imagine with equipment like you have, Chris, you probably could get'r'dun in a 20 minute video clip, LOL!
Back in the 50s or 60s Euclid made a twin tractor pushing one blade and one operator controlling both machines. My dad made a home movie of my uncle running one in the stripmines in Ohio.
K&L Machine and Welding That would be cool to see bud You should upload it on to TH-cam and post the Link on here 👍🏻 I have done some side by side pushing previously in the Forces (Royal Engineers)with some old D6D’s quite easy when you get the hang of it and very effective once you get it right. Big time saver.
so on these cable operated did they rely on gravity and weight of the boom and bucket to dig down and the weight of the dozers blade kept it on the ground and cutting down?
My father use to drive a dragline digger with the bucket on steel wire cable use clean silt & mud out of streams & rivers looked like there was an art to putting the bucket in the right place he could throw the bucket right up under a bridge without touching it
Hey, 4 in 1 buckets, power angle blades, self levelers, etc etc,,, have made the business much easier... However, the skill level of the "older" operators was extraordinary...so much done with so little and few "aids"
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those cable cat dozers were hell when you "double blocked " them we had all this stuff in the early sixties I was an oiler one year on a Bucyrus Erie 32B local 4 Boston Mass. the old Northwest shovels were the worst when the linkage got out of wack you needed arms four feet long to run one
I would imagine it is like comparing modern airplanes (joystick) to fly-by-wire - in those machines you can feel the machine - the revs of the engine - knew when to add more power, or less blade.
About 40 years ago when we where kids I remember my grandparents living next door to a old abandoned wrecking yard full of these old retired earth movers, dozers, dump truck and excavators like the one in this video, some of the best memories I have are of us playing for hours at a time exploring, climbing on and pretending to operate these fascinating machines, good times!!!
Although i'm not so old, but i appreciate these old machines more than modern
You had my dream childhood
I used to live on a farm next to an abandoned quarry, few dozers ,diggers,and a massive building type vehicle that had conveyer belts going in to and out off both ends,my brother and I used to play there years ago
The two guys pushing together that is true artists that know their craft
One of the nice things about older machines is no computer tech for the manufacturer to keep tabs on so they can punish you for working on it yourself. Yeah, Im looking at you, John Deere!
Yes! The old pre-computer stuff will become the "new" machines of the post-Apocalypse era.
No hydraulics here... Hmm I could have sworn that the third cat dozed had some!
Was looking for this comment, so I could give it a like.
Haha same, I seen them a mile away
I knew this comment would be here as soon as I saw the rams on the dozer.
Yep def spotted it as well quite easy lol but he didn’t focus on that so much
@@blaircrocker9845 always a know it all to point out the obvious and criticize every word literally. They are called Biden voters
I'm older than dirt and that's what I ran many years ago! You work them sticks all day every day and I guarantee you that you will not have any flabby muscles ! Still love to hear them old machines bellow ! 😊
Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍
I worked for my uncle back in the eighties and he dug basements with an old bantam cable machine and to watch him it looked very difficult to operate but once you got the hang of it wasn’t bad
OH man ! I used to watch these Bucyrus Erie ' ditch diggers' as we used to call them,...laying pipe in my town. They caused me to be late for school more than once.
I could watch them all day back then, and I'd still be late watching them now too.
Absolutely. The sound off those old machines is fantastic. Great to see them still working 👍
Reg Sparkes
I'm late for work right now....... watching traktor on TH-cam. I guess somethings are ageless. ;)
Reg Sparkes 😊😊😊
Started running a 2U D8 back in 1972. This brings back memories. The steering frictions were tough to pull. The old timers back then said you could tell a 2U operator by his knuckles dragging on the ground when he walked.
I’ve got a Ruston Bucyrus 19 R-B , which is a slightly larger English-built machine, with the same front end.
To get the best out of one of those cable trench hoes, tuck the dipper under the boom as it comes out of the cut, set the hoist clutch as the dipper teeth reach the top of the cut - start the swing as soon as the back of the bucket clears the cut. Leave the hoist clutch in through the swing and, as you approach the dumping point, slacken the drag brake and let the dipper run out to dump. Do not disengage the hoist until the dipper is empty and commence the return swing before the dipper has quite emptied. Slacken the hoist brake on the return swing, so that the dipper is just above the ground by the time you reach the cut - set the drag clutch an simultaneously lower the dipper into the cut for the next bite. Take an even slice through the cut so that the dipper slides through fast and easy.
A fast fluid motion that’s easy on the machine and the operator, and moves most yards per hour !
I couldn’t do half of what you guys do with a hydraulic machine today, but in straightforward easy trenching, I could still give you a good run for your money !
Ooooh love those RBs....used to see loads of them when I was a kid. Glad there's still a few about...
I used to run a RB-22. The first couple of days I ran it my legs ached all night.
due to budget cuts that old shovel is your new machine.... good luck... the management..
Ken m it’ll be slower but more reliable than the new shit!
You get the right operator on one and you'll have a trench knocked out in no time. I've seen it with my own eyes! And I'm a young guy!
Maximum Hardcore
Hella. And no blown cylinders to rebuild. If a kable snaps just tie it bakk together. :)
Subix Barbarasson, splicing cable is an art form. That said, the productivity of these machines and the skill of the men who operated them when they were contemporary should not be underestimated.
Randy Magnum
I wasn't hating or nothing. Just being sarkastik. I aktully have a detachable, winch powered FEL on the front of my YJ Wrangler. ;)
Amazing the work they did with those old machines. When those came out I bet they thought it couldn't get any better. Love it
Wow it’s amazing to think when this stuff came out it revolutionized the excavating industry! But from we have today this stuff is so inefficient, but still impressive to see them run! Nice pieces of history there. The first dozer I ever ran was a 1948 international track loader with a gas engine I thought that thing was a beast! Thanks for sharing Chris, very cool!
and in 20-30 years time you will look back on todays brand spanking new excavating technology and say how inefficient it is. Its very easy to say that now when you know how innovating technology is.
Dane Spencer that is so true
The tools may be more efficient but the workers are lazy asses these days.
I love seeing job sites where you have 6 guys directing traffic and one morbidly obese guy playing with the excavator.
xXAnchormonXx 😆 ain’t that the truth
@@jimbeam9632 These old machines are really cool, but I´d rather have something thats dummy proof with several redundant safeties instead of something that doesn´t stop for anything if the operator fucks up.
God I love excavation equipment videos. It's truly an odd obsession but I watch them during my free time after working.
My two uncles owned a construction company in the 40s and 50s. I never gave it much thought to how they worked before hydraulics until I saw a photo of them with their first excavators today. Now I'm here haha. Thanks for the upload.
these are the machines i operated when i started working I still love to run them they are awesome
I started on the cable 6s and 7s have great appreciation for the work they do! Brush and land clearing. Also great in hot Texas heat building stock ponds! Hydraulic tractors would overheat while these kept plugging along getting the job done !
Those old Cats are things of beauty, and I say that as an old Catskinner. And that Bucyrus-Erie 15-B, can’t beat ‘em. Never surprises me when I see Cats that old and still purring. They were built to last. And still are
Thank god I was born in 1969 not 1929. But very impressive to see how it was done years ago .We all should have a lot of respect for the men and women who did not have it as easy as we have it today.
Blake Martin
Why, they had it easier than the people before them.
What's the difference?
@@krrrruptidsoless technology
"men and women" So tired of that false equating that we've been forced to adopt.
Men got more done with improved technology.
Women got all the labor saving stuff for the house and on the job and it just gives them more time to gripe and gossip.
That's some cool old iron!!! Amazing how it's advanced over the years.
Now that's what I call old schooling from a real man's world. Geez, that goes back to me grandad day it does. Blimey that's an old one. Me pawpaw used to run heavy equip. And I used sit on his lap I did. Thx for the memories mate. Really made me think of me grandad.
Wow that old digger. I started on a uh 121 Hitachi 37 plus years ago and back then it was state of the art. God it would have been great to see that old digger in the real
In 60 years these machines still will work, but how many of the new machines will ?
Thank you for sharing.
In 60 years the stars will still be there but will we?
Allan Haywood yeah
Growing up in the 60's, I remember dozers like this, cranes with cables controlling the boom and the only cylinders were on dump trucks. Ironically, My Tonka Dump truck had one too!. But the Wrecker had a winch.
Sure beats a shovel. Old power shovel is neat
Yea i was thinking how much slower it is vs. A modern machine but my dad said he helped grandad dig his drain fields buy hand in the early 60's so ""slow"" is matter of perspective
The only thing wrong with a bulldoze is it spends half of it's life going backwards.
Steve Hansen Don’t we all, Steve?
@@jamesblade6684 well said
Had a owner tell his operator he backs up to much.😂
@@jamesblade6684 the loops of adulthood life.
Made back when our country actually made stuff... no sensors just nuts, bolts, pulleys, cables and steel.
Mr. Hand made over here
fuckin A RIGHT
Man, your country still DOES make stuff. But it’s no good wishing after the good ‘ole days. Today is today, learn to live with it.
Ted Bell for one... I use to work for CAT Decatur, Il. Two... many of us Americans lost our jobs due to politics and are now being made over seas for a 1/4th less.
Politics? I don’t think so. Try capitalism. Your jobs went somewhere the costs were cheaper. I’m very sorry that you lost your job, but please don’t tell me that it’s about politics.
They might be slower but they still get the job done 👍👍
I’d say if everything was tight on it, that there’s a old timer around that could run the Piss out of that shovel
Very neat old machines! Way before my day of course but would love to play around with these. Very interesting to watch!
Still more modern than the stuff they used to build the Panama canal.
Yup, steam was king back then
Slaves?
@@superXwhiteXninja They used steamshovels that ran on coal.
Slaves? Don't be ridiculous. They used "Oompa Loompas" to build the Panama canal.
@@superXwhiteXninja no but there are still many people enslaved in Africa to this day.
Love seeing all of those antique machines out there
Looking good as usual glad the hurricane 🌀 missed you too and excellent video 👍😎🇺🇸NY
the old timers that ran the cable dozers were vary skilled with them
very nor vary.
@@jaxflfreebird You really had to reply to a 2 year old comment just to correct him, that says a lot about you as a person. While I'm at it you start a sentence with a capital letter, and its "not" not "nor".
@@jaxflfreebird your a scumbag forsure, what an A hole
Old timers are very skilled with just about any manual machine they run. The trick is teaching us youngins to be passionate about it and learn from the old timer's skills
@@jaxflfreebird you can spell?
The sound of post war America building itself to greatness..
Well said
Maximum levels of freedom
IT SMELLS LIKE VICTORY!
They must be still building it to be greatness because America isn't that great.
Or into ruin.
I just enjoy watching that old iron work.
Great video, I love seeing old gear still working
Good to see ppl making America great again...building parking lots...in the middle of the woods...with equipment made during the Spanish-American War. Two steps forward and three steps back is apparently considered progress these days.
Lived in An old house in northern Ky where state route 16 and 17 came together. I used to ride on a CAT D8 with an operator H.F. many hours of pure pleasure.
Those cats bring back memories. I grew up around a D-9 like those. First dozer I ever ran.
I’d heard about cable and brake excavators. But I guess I’m spoiled. Been operating for almost 20 years and since I started machines have come along way since I started. Back in those days the operator worked harder then the labours lol. The machines now are like Cadillacs. My job is a job after all these years but I’m grateful I don’t hate it or getting up everyday. And thanks to the union it pays very well too. Love the old machines. Oldest dozer for me was a 1970 Cat D6. Not a cable machine
God Bless the labor unions. Especially the Locals that actually work for their members and not just collect dues.
You win the internet today! Coolest thing I've seen all day! Probably all month! Thanks for the video!
I ran an Insley K machine back in the 70s. Brought bsck memories. I was only 20 years old. Cluches. Brakes. Levers oh my! And cables.
Old iron is cool but new iron is so much nicer to run all day. We do enjoy playing with our old tractors in the fields from time to time. Let’s us know how good we have it now.
Hoping to see some of your old iron in videos, just subscribed comrade.
gonna try and make some with winter approaching will have some time for that. Just subscribed to your channel as well. Thank you.
SLC Farms thank you comrade, hoping it doesn't disappoint. Take care DRINK MORE VODKAS!
The sounds off the old iron are way cooler too. 👍
"Let's us know how good we have it now."
Let's = let us, so 'let's us' = let us us
It's kind of amazing to see that thing dig with just cables and pulleys. And it seems fairly strong. Sure it has it's limitations though
Thanks for this Chris,...what a way to spend a day!
Hell, that shovel was older than the dirt it was digging! Really cool to see them in action still. Thanks for the videos.
These are the machines that built our roads way way before my time! Where’s the auto stick?? 😀
I could just picture you trying to dredge that pond with that thing...LMAO
They wouldn't have used that for dredging a pond, that would have been done with a dragline.
I love this video! Very nice.
When grownups miss playing with Tonka toys in the sandbox
very good to see these still being used for work
beautiful old machines, the 15 B is my passion
Used to be one of those cable driven excavators near my house when I was a kid. It sat in the weeds with some other equipment for ever. Would love to have it now.
As a kid, I use to watch these monsters work. Now at 66, I have only fond memories of America's greatness.
Wow, four years later. Glad to see somebody who gets it. I too am in my 60's and we (Baby Boomers) are the last generation to have seen the REAL AMERICA in person.
People don't grasp what that means. Gen X came of adult age during Reaganomics and Clinton and only saw the carcass of the REAL AMERICA. Albeit dressed up in handsome burial clothing and in faux patriotic bunting around the casket. BTW, History's Medical Examiner did an autopsy of the old America but, the causes and suspects are sealed up indefinitely as a certain Tribe and its accomplices may never be held liable even though the toxicology report points straight to them.
The Millennials might have heard stories about the real America but, those stories mean nothing as America is nowhere to be found in everyday living; save for the occasional artifact they might stumble across. Gen Z doesn't even know what America is or was. They are told that we represent everything that is hatefulsexistracistantiSemitichomophobebigotedmeanspiritedintolerantWhitesupremacisttoxicmasculinityTrumpLostgetoverit.oy.veh.
Just flat awsome!! Love it!!
That takes me back to some nice memories
now that's what I am talking about ... nothing beats the Old School equipment with pure raw Horsepower & pure cold hard steel for the job... Yeah " modern" machines can do the job faster,.. BUT.. I mean when you look at / watch these beasts at work and consider they are still going strong & getting the job done and their age .. and compare it to today's modern equipment made with all electronics, hydraulics & cheaper steel & parts and their lifespan / and how many average work hours they last before something goes wrong (in many cases if anything electronic / electric goes wrong the computer shuts it down automatically) there is no comparison ( like my Grandfather ( who used to operate an old shovel) would say ... the less electric / electronic / & other junk you have on the equipment means there is less that can go wrong )
The first dozer i learned on was a cat d7 cable with pony motor. You learned real quick to pick your lines and only turn when absolutely necessary.
This just shows how game changing hydraulic systems are
For some 20 years, I've been cleaning my acreage in southwest MS, STILL finding pieces of these cables in the ground. Even found some cylinder sleeves where someone re-sleeved an engine in the woods.
Like going back in time, wonderful! Must haven taken a long time back then!
Why no covers on some of the dozers? Which hand held the umbrella when it rained or the parasol when the sun was out?
There is a similar show with old equipment in Virginia in september- field Day of the past- in Goochland just west of Richmond.. they even run an old steam shovel..
Roland Mn has 4 steam shovels all running at the same time during labor day week end every year . One of the largest threshing show in the us. Construction equipment, farm equipment, train, horses doing farming operations. You can't even to begin to see all of it in one day. They have stationary engines 20 ft tall . One engine 67ft. Long. I have been there the last 2 years , and still haven't seen all of it. It truly is an amazing place.
I look forward to Field Day every year. Sit on those old counter weights and watch em work for hours.
I like, at least no oil leaks, filters or hoses to break, no rams or hydraulic pumps to fail, no costly oil refills or costly electronics plus they are environmentally friendly, the excavator although slow is still a useful machine.
Charlie out buying "new" equipment...lol
I could listen to the distant drone of these beasts forever.
We have a big show like that near my house. Awesome old iron.
Love seeing the old iron
Hard to imagine even older excavator technology than this built stuff like the Panama Canal. Makes ya realize how far technology has come in just 100 years.
Another thing them dozers been around for 60 year an still working the new machines will never make it that long
R - nah
R - watch some footage on poorbrokentractor and you will be surprised
Sure if you operate your gear only during daylights for 8 hours a day, but now 24-7 is where it’s at. 75000hrs and 5 complete rebuilds and 5 half is what the life of a dozer is now.
manofausagain most machines don't operate 24 seven , and they didn't cost a million for a total rebuild like some now
@@72Chevylover true but with all the emission crap on new diesels they are problematic.
That first Cat looks like it would push until it found itself up against a train
Back in my day.....
@@huckaberry5006 Back in my day men used muscle, which was 1983
And then push the train!!
I love the smell of asbestos-based clutch/brake lining burning in the morning! *coof.... coof cooooof.....
i love the fixed curl on the excavator and wow was that thing violent when he strechted it out so cool to watch
Growing up my dad had a Bcyrus similar to the one shown. He had the Hoe, dragline and shovel booms for it. Later on the be replaced by a Bantam Shield and a Link Belt drag line. All cable driven, talk about exercise.... if dad said to do something you had better do it because if he ever grabbed you it was like having your arm in a vise. Miss those days...
I remember as a little kid watching bulldozers and other types of heavy equipment all having cable controlled blades, etc. The weight of the blade controlled down force, unlike today hydraulic controls give two way control.
2:00 wonderful to see the vintage equipment doing their thing...funny how the modern day stuff doesn't appear to do it any better despite the change to hydraulics.
That's very cool! When I 1st started operating in 1982-3 - My 1st dozer was a 'cable-8.' Took a little getting used to, but I learned. My 1st job was clearing an area for a bunch of sports fields for a city park. Took us a week. I imagine with equipment like you have, Chris, you probably could get'r'dun in a 20 minute video clip, LOL!
Very cool. I feel like it's worth a mention that at our local fairwe have a CAT 50, which is basically the tractor version of an early D8/early D9
You see these guys on jobs now that stand right next to your bucket when you're digging. Don't think they'd be standing next to that beast!
Old school side by side dozing... nice.
Back in the 50s or 60s Euclid made a twin tractor pushing one blade and one operator controlling both machines. My dad made a home movie of my uncle running one in the stripmines in Ohio.
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I have done some side by side pushing previously in the Forces (Royal Engineers)with some old D6D’s quite easy when you get the hang of it and very effective once you get it right.
Big time saver.
so on these cable operated did they rely on gravity and weight of the boom and bucket to dig down and the weight of the dozers blade kept it on the ground and cutting down?
My father use to drive a dragline digger with the bucket on steel wire cable use clean silt & mud out of streams & rivers looked like there was an art to putting the bucket in the right place he could throw the bucket right up under a bridge without touching it
Hey, 4 in 1 buckets, power angle blades, self levelers, etc etc,,, have made the business much easier...
However, the skill level of the "older" operators was extraordinary...so much done with so little and few "aids"
Imagine what an awesome sandbox toy a mini version of this would be if driven either electrically or with manual winches.
Can't beat the sound of that old iron just working away.
Man those old machines are cool
It's just gettin' broke in good!
nice to see the old iron still working ..
A little paint and those babies would look brandy new!
Ran a D7 back in the 70's cable blade & power shift ?
Wow!! Thanks. I have only seen pictures of these.
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Wonder how much the computer diagnostics run on that old excavator :)
Think you will not know, since it will be far to expensive to get the computer up'n run on that thing :-)
I heard the cost is comparable to getting the integrated on-board GPS system updated. :-))
They Don't Have computers.
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Ya I think the GPS might be a bit tricky to switch from hydraulic to cable and brake might need some serious retrofitting LOL
Great video. The cable machines are a D6 and a D7. What is the hydraulic dozer?
J Pay Dirt would be like a kid in a candy store if he saw this!
That old D6 is running clean and pretty quick too.
Playing in the sandbox is always fun
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those cable cat dozers were hell when you "double blocked " them we had all this stuff in the early sixties I was an oiler one year on a Bucyrus Erie 32B local 4 Boston Mass. the old Northwest shovels were the worst when the linkage got out of wack you needed arms four feet long to run one
I would imagine it is like comparing modern airplanes (joystick) to fly-by-wire - in those machines you can feel the machine - the revs of the engine - knew when to add more power, or less blade.
I remember these well.
You should go to Denton North Carolina Thrashers event July 4 week. Great old steam stuff and show.
Mean earth shifters , love the sound makes the hairs in ur neck stand up
Old is gold