In this video i unload a caterpillar d10r dozer and get it on our ready line for dismantling for parts. This is a great machine and shares alot of similarities with the D10T and D10N of the earlier and later years.
Hey Quinton !!!! That motor alone is worth it's weight in Gold as NO ""DEF"" System to worry about breaking down !!!! Nice video & Thanks !!!! 🤔🙂🙃🙄👀👀👀👍👍👍👍👍
@@needsaride15126 Hmm!! Where do you stop mending it !!- It All Time and Big Bucks Every thing is Heavy and needs a Crane/Forklift or and both Plus Compressed Air Zip Gun for those seized Bolts and long threads. Only way to have a Reliable machine is a Full CAT Rebuild - Thats if the Frame is still Good as a Starting point !!.
@@user-es6jt6eb7t All equipment needs maintenance at some point. Judging by what is available to see in the video. That machine deserves more than the scrapyard.
I work in a mine in the Pilbara of Western Australia and we had 2 of these old D10Rs. DZ 3076 was my favourite, it weighed in at close to 90 tons and this dozer was a beast. We also had 4 D10Ts and now we have a fleet of D10T2s. The D10R in my opinion was the pinnacle of D10s, they had the weight and the reliability. The D10T2s have to much electronics and don't have the weight.
I’ve ran them all in the coal field of Kentucky and Tennessee and by far the R model was of the best of them I ran one 10r that had 90000 hours on it was still a good dozer
I Ran both 9 and 10Rs for 10 years in Mining, Along with Kamatsu 475 and the 10R was the Cadillac of Pushing Dirt, It makes Me feel like a Dinosaur to hear you speak of them as if they are antiques The 10 would a mountain and the Kamatsu would smooth to grade like a carpet. Two of the finest dozers ever built!
I work in East Peoria at CAT from late 77 to early 79. When the D10 was first being built, I was a line inspector on the track link line. The original forging for the track links, had a sharp corner, right behind the shoe pad, and above the bushing bore of the link. After heat treat, that square corner introduced stress in the steel and they started ripping links apart when testing, cracking from that sharp corner into the bushing bore. Some dumba$$ engineer, decided they could grind a radius in that corner to keep them from cracking. It didn't help a bit, even though a bunch of guys sat grinding that corner out for a couple weeks, to get a few tracks made up to test. If the radius was there before heat treat, it would have helped, but the stress point was already there when these were ground out. I would imagine the track links have been upgraded a few times since my time at Peoria. 😎
Early D10 morphed into the D11. 70s D10 with V12 D348 engine ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--cYJBfllSSE.html The D10N, R, T size wise equal was the earlier D9L .
Why wouldn't they go to the casting department and get them to adjust the mold as trying to alter a stressed steel casting made from highly abrasive resistant metallurgy with grinding in my experience just leads to wasted time. I have also found that engineers when they are at fault deflect from their mistakes and push onto the tradesman without listening to the guys on the ground handling the weldment or casting. If the engineer was a tradesman, which rarely happens anymore then you have some skills otherwise team work is key in large manufacturing and egos stall everything if they are not working together.
Also good for doing demo work like reducing a building to rubble for demo ! Had a friend buy one at action and built a development on a site then sold it
always hammer down the battery cable connectors on to the battery posts. it helps the batteries internal connections to the plates . works especially well on big diesel high current starting batteries that cost 500.00 to 1000.00 dollars each.
Soooo how did you get it on the lowboy? Really interested to know why you wouldn't have driven it on....or was it sitting for 5-8 years on the trailer?
The Rs and newer are nice but become electrical nightmares as they age, the N series and older are much simpler machines to keep going. Not going to see any R series still going strong at the age you seem some of the old G and H series dozers still going at.
How do you get it On the lowbed if you now had to see if you can start it getting it off the lowbed.Was it ON the lowbed for 5 to 8 years. Mostly Selfmade Poepols.
Well you really didn't save any thang if the only reason that you got it was to cut it up for parts ...only if you need the parts then good but if for a doller than it was saved just post poned
All of the components are being saved and rebuilt for other machines that will live on. Usually these machines end up being cut up into little chunks and shipped overseas and turned into a kia of some sort. This machine will live on in hundreds of other machines
If it’s the “ best 10 ever made “ you’d think it’s worth rebuilding with new tracks and selling back again rather then parting out but I understand if that’s your business
I understand why would you want to scrap it out it runs just got to do a little bit of work and get your money back on it by selling it out is fire service or you can get them to certify it when they need a bulldozer on fire did they call you to come out with it make a lot of more money that way then you would the scrap it
