I remember doing the rear tyres on one of the scrapers it like a giant wheelbarrow wheel on a spindle. It's held on with 2 clamps. We removed the wheel with help from a 3cx n when the driver tipped it up to take it apart it rolled of down the field we sat there pissing ourselves laffing oh happy days 😀
(:47-1:04) Probably the best sounding turbo whistle I've ever heard. Awsome D9 you have there. Back when Cat was Cat. Glad to see these old Cats still in use, American made and built to last.
Man, what a Giant . Love those old machines. They run forever and are easy or some kind of easy to maintain. By the way that cool Le tournou scrapper looks a little bit like the bad mobiel
Brings back memories of my lumber yard days when it took an hour just to get the 2 cycle pony motor running good enough to start the old Cat motor in sub zero weather. Good times!
In the winter it would take me the first half hour to hour just to get the pony motor running on an old D8 at a huge rock Quarry in Ohio County Kentucky back in the mid 70s Then keeping it running long enough to fire the cat up was another story lol
my dad worked for Letourneau when the were made in the plant at rydalmere nsw australia in 1940s and 50s ,they loined with westinghouse at some time.lots of good memories at the plant christmas parties.
Good tires are hard to find at the right price. "Workin' with what ya' got" is a good way to put it. The shoe fits so it does the job for now. 1956 year model.
We used to pull scrapers with D-9s all the time. That's an awfully small scraper for a D-9. The smallest we pulled with ours typically is a 463, although we did pull a 621 in extremely soft conditions. The largest we have pulled is a 641. A 631 size hydraulic scraper or a 90 cable is just right for a D-9. That was a little much though and although it loaded it fine, it would spin out on high spill piles. D-9s are great scraper Cats although 36A D8Hs and 76V D8Ks are better with the standard transmission. They will pull a 463 scraper well and use half the fuel of a D-9 pulling it. And, in soft ground, I can actually pass a D-9 because they don't torque down.
This is what we call a " CAT-n- Can. I worked allot with this setup. And another D-8 cat as a push cat to help me load the bay. We would change with each other. If you didn't be carful, the Cat would walk right thru those cables Takes time to rethread the cables. The HD 21 bulldozer would not break the cable. maybe it was a HD-24. Long time ago in the Oregon desert summer and winter building 24 small dams.
Reminds me of times I spent pushing; listening to the turbo whine up hill pushing forty foot deep hole500feet by fifteen hundred feet watching the soil roll above the blade & then the refill & compact!!!
You're right about the bureaucrats, about 15years ago, just before I retired I was operating a 988 Cat loader on a federally funded highway project. First, they made us install diapers on all the equipment to prevent even a single drop of oil from dripping on the ground and these diapers were to be cleaned daily. 1hr to remove, clean and replace. Then when the job was done, they made us bulldoze the sides of the pit down and spread topsoil on it, ruining a perfectly good gravel deposit.
That turbo wjistle is what made operators deaf. I ran a push cat D9 and I am glad it was a short term replacement for a D8H. Th ose Le Tournau scrapers were sure ugly but worked.
Some great old machinery there. Looking at that old rear tyre, I'm guessing there is little or no pressure in it. Just the strength in the sidewall keeping it up.
Run an outfit like that back in the 60's only with a D7. Scrapers always rolled on steep backslopes and fills. Keeping the cable to tight on a short turn brought it right over on you. Must have pulled 10 miles of cable. Ahh the good old days....
@odmcarp We couldn't find a matching tire for it. The smaller tire fit the rim, so we used it. Yes there is a slight angle because of the uneven tires.
Neat. Is there a reason for the uneven sized wheels in the rear, or was that "workin' with what ya' got"? That D9 is in pretty good shape, and the turbo made quick work of filling that can. Only missing 2 glass panels in the cab too. Surely a rare find. What year?
Does this D9 comes from Holland? Because it says "Beemsterboer" on the side? I myself am from Holland, so I was wondering. Great sound by the way, love to hear the turbo whistle.
Yeah, it MIGHT be 'nuff power in that Cat...I think I heard the gov open just a hair at least once?☺! As much as I hate to admit such: It took me until about the 4½ min. mark to realize it really was filling with dirt!!! Up til then? Hell, I thought you were just pullin' it around knockin' down horseweeds with it, just to prove it does/would roll.....!☺
Este sistema funcionaba sobre los años 50 cuando no existían los hidráulicos,los montaban los Allí Chalmers,HD y los Internacional Harbester TD y los Mitsubishi
Them letourneau scapers were a pain in the butt,That old 9 sounds good but look'n a bit tired, That's the thing about them old cats they just keep running.
@cdog9991 diesels have torque not horsepower the new cat c15 which is the engine that is used in many tractor trailers only produces 600 hp but it has 2050ft/lbs of torque. another thing you have to remember is that this is an old engine and doesn't have the technology which gives a lot of new gas and diesel engines their power, it has a turbo charger but next to that it uses it's shear size to produce those 320hp (which even by today's standards is quite powerful for a bulldozer).
