I think "should i buy a bulldozer?" is a rhetorical question. I would never ask that question. The answer should always be yes. I want one now that it has been brought to my attention that old iron like that is so bitchin. I really want a cat 797 dumptruck though...but i dont have anywear to put it, or a spare 700 g's to purchase one...
since when has the purchase of anything to do with this board been a practical decision??? hell its machinery, it needs fixin, its gunna cost you money. sounds like a hotrod to me!
Buy it if you want it. You can never have too much old iron - at least that's my theory. Nothing better for stress relief than to shove down a few trees. Here's my 1941 D8 Cat - no hydraulics, no electrical system, just 1250 cubic inches driving 50,000 pounds of fun.
Gotta agree with all these guys. He who dies with the most toys, wins. I'm just thinking about the inane questions, "what are you gonna do with it?" Whatever you bloody well want! A dozer that only turns one way is pretty trad. Think about the history of rodding. How many rods were built to only turn one way. That's a thought. If you can't fix the clutch you can go into business making 1/4 mile circles. Cool Pete
Looks like a great way to eliminate all that stress in life. Just ask A.J.Foyt. That's his way of relieving tension, although he recently got KO'd by some pissed off killer bees. Must be pay back for all the hornet's nest he's stirred up in the past .
These babies would be waaaay too hard on a park'in lot on cruise night! And.............if your go'in to the HAMB drags, you'd better get started now, it's gonna take you a while to get there. I can just see you steam'in down the Will Rogers turnpike with an army of Oklahomas finest on your tail with lights and sirens on, trying to get you to "Pull Over"!
Squirrel, my dad made a living on a cable blade Cat for a lot of years. I have pics of him building farm ponds buried over the tracks in mud, with a big smile on his face. He also worked a night job grading the long verticle banks on the side of a road in Northern Pa. 2 guys, each on a Cat, riding up and down{ Too steep to go sideways}, one on each side of the road. The only way they knew each other was OK was watching for the headlights refecting on the cloads! Buy it!
fuck that. buy dis bitch. and here i thought i was cool with a ridin lawn tractor. hell yea you should buy this. shit man with the price of steel now, you could get your cash back just torchin the fucker apart and scrapin it
easy to move such a bulldozer, do you got a crane and 300 people pushing it onto the huge big expencive truck?
Hey I remember this thread. I got the bulldozer, got it working ok, and use it occasionally. I fired it up today and drove across my property to where I have to pull some fence posts out. There's something neat about sitting on 6 tons of 60 year old smoking, rattling, clunking, screeching iron, crawling along at 3 mph, shaking the ground as it goes...
The really nice nthing about it is parking it. Park where ever you want. And traffic circles, you could close your eyes entering one. If at full speed you get bored of driving you can get down and walk along side of it for a while. One of the linebackers from the Redskins lived near my shop and when he had a bad game he'd get on his bulldozer and go rip up trees and shit out in the woods. We could hear him crashing around out there, nobody ever complained.
There is something about having a cool piece of equipment that you can put to work when you need to too. Wish I had that cat here now to redo my driveway, all 400 ft of it. A local outfit has asphalt grindings for sale for crushed rock prices that I sure would like to have spread on my driveway and packed down. The tank traps keep the riffraff out though.
Squirrel, what in the hell is the matter with you? Why are you even asking a stupid question like this? The proper way to handle this would have been to post pictures of your new TD9 dozer. -Brad
H0ow about a couple of pictures, so we can envy you properly. I think Dale Earnhardt had a bulldozer too, No, not the 3 car.
Yeah, that's why The View keeps Rosie O'Donnell on the payroll. Seriously, I would love to have an old crawler, maybe a Cat 10. I have operated the newer big Cats, high-drive 8s and 9s, a 988 wheel loader, and have spent many hours mashing both footfeeds through the floorboards of Caterpillar 637 twin engine push-pull scrapers. They are a hoot, 800 hp of turbo screamin' four wheelin' rodeo fun!
So now you can say if it has tits or tires or tracks it will give you trouble (usually worth it though) Cool dozer though!
Post a youtube video of you driving it, I miss the sound of clanking tracks creeping inexorably forward, completely unconcerned for anything in their path. I grew up sitting on the side fender of my Grandpa's Cat while he cleared fields and logged with his old TD-4. Years later he replaced it with a Komatsu but it just wasn't the same as that old iron bastard bellowing along...
you could always park it next to the driveway and put the mail box on it...let them little bastards hit that with a ball bat.
well keep them, away from water or they may flood out, couild you come and pull me out, was pumping the water away on this today 52,000 pds its traditional 1957 model hey d8 guys, i got a rd6 its 1/2 a old d8 3 cyl sounds like its got a miss, mucho -power for it size running about850 rpm hey you can steer with a bad steer clutch just back up not much fun to get inside these machines but the ihc is kinda claw hammer repair machine compared to CAT with all it special pullers O h i flood a lot, and even miss car shows due to flooding
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