That old cable rig takes me back to my childhood. We had an old cable rigged D6 that we bought from an army surplus auction back in the early seventies. It didn’t have a starter you had to start this old Wisconsin robin gas engine that was a bitch to start, I’m telling you when I pull start one of these Honda motors today I about cry with joy every single time! My dad would send me out at 3:30 in the morning to get the dozer fired off, I’m telling you it’s a chore for a grown assed man! 🥵 I remember him telling me that one day you’ll appreciate this boy! I cursed him for three hours straight! Meanwhile my dad’s sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee and moms making him biscuits and gravy! Man! Wtfh! Once you got that old beast of of motor running, and believe me it wasn’t easy because it didn’t even have one of those recoil start deals you had to wrap the rope every single time that biatch didn’t want to start! Lord lord lord! You had to fiddle with the choke and pull the plug and then if your dogma was in line with your chakra it would fire off! Then you had to pull the compression release so the diesel would spin freely and then you had to engage two clutches to start it, and half the time that killed the pony motor! 😤😳 yeah! So if you were lucky enough to get her spinning and then engage the pony and let her turn and then finally she would cough and woof and fire off maybe! What a beast she was! We had some adventures pushing stumps out of the ground and eventually we both became proficient on the dozer, by the time I was 14 I was running circles around my old man and he knew it! Then he had this epiphany to change the cables on that beast and save a few bucks, you know old school ranchers and by the time we got done we both looked like we had run through a mine field! We were sliced to ribbons! But looking back it makes me smile so thank you! You’re very fortunate to have videos of your adventures, don’t forget these days! 🇺🇸💪👊👍
Sounds like you had an exciting childhood! I've always enjoyed making these videos and having something to look back on in the years to come. Thanks for sharing your memories!
