I've been a DP fan for years and most of what they do is an adventure. It's been fun watching Aaron as well and they are usually worth a chuckle or few.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Have been wondering about the dozer sleeping in the barn in front of the puppy dog. If DP did a video about it I must of missed it. Great to see the cold start, first pony motor cold start for me ever. Well worth watching. Wishing you and your family the best.
I saw most of the videos DP put up with his D6 9U and told him this as well. My Dad had a 56 D69U (he bought it in 1965...I was 2...LOL) that I spent many an hour wrenching on it...and plenty more running it. It got to the point where the only 2 people that could start it and run it were me and Dad (the tracks were really loose because of the manual adjusters were frozen years before I started working on it...and they would flop off if you didn't pay attention 1000% of the time). DP gave a great explanation of how the pony motor works (most people think there weren't electric starters in the day....they did have them...plenty of them...Cat made the pony and for cold weather it was awesome...that dozer would start no matter how cold it was. I love the sounds of that old girl...and do miss her!
We called the clutch lever s Johnson bar. We had a 4R (earlier model) and a 9U later model. Magneto are always the biggest starting problem with most pony motors.
Saw a video from your buddy Matt at Diesel Creek, where he had bought this machine that had a pony engine set up just like that one, and the exhaust pipe going through the intake manifold of the main engine had rusted and let exhaust choke the main engine out, so it wouldn't start. Matt figured it out, and loosened the main engine's intake manifold so enough fresh air could get in, and got the main engine going. God bless you too Hank 🙂
Outstanding video. My grandpa was a dozer legend in our area and he had a Cat D5C that was almost identical to this with the pony motor and all. I can barely remember it but I've heard so many stories from my Dad and others about it - I loved every minute of this video. My grandpa went on to be with the Lord in 2002 and I think of him everyday! Thanks so much for sharing and I can't wait to see this live again someday. I also appreciate the hesitance to use ether - good choice IMO. Thanks for sharing!
DP, not only a genius when it comes to using his 210 and making useful stuff out of spare parts. but a master mechanic as well. Plus on top of everything he's a really nice guy, makes me sick. 🤣😂👍
Years ago , I was around , and worked around many pony motor dozers , I`ve ran a cable blade 8 . International use to have a gas start , diesel run dozer engine .
In 1973 at UC Davis I had a tractor mechanics class. The final was to start a 1965 D6 in under 2 hours that had been sabotaged by the instructors. As I remember it looked a lot like the video, except they had also blocked the the diesel fuel filter. Thanks for the memories.
That was awesome I had no idea it took all that to get the dozer started but it made for a real good video showing us how it starts up thanks to the both you
That is nearly an exact match to the one I ran in 1958 sitting in Dad's lap pulling the levers but could not reach the pedals. I was in kindergarten so I know the year.
Need to get an old D6 like Squatch has 3 cylinders about the size of coffee cans and about a 10 inch stroke. WFO is like 900 rpm, torque peak is around 600 rpm. It drops down to maybe 500 rpm in a push. Sounds like it is going to stall but just keeps chugging along. You can almost count the beats.
Back in the 90’s my grandfather purchased an old D6 Cat with the pony motor. It was sitting in front of a business painted hot pink. He liked restoring stuff and he needed one for his ranch so we stripped it completely apart and rebuilt it from the ground up but converted it to 24 volt electric start. We also repainted it cat yellow after stripping it all the way to bare metal. It’s the dozer I learned on as a teen. Years later he sold it and purchased a much newer D6 with a winch because we kept getting the other dozer stuck when the river flooded and made a huge mess in the back pastures. Those were big boy tools. Zero safety features to hold your hand. They relied on you having common sense back then. You had to be a real operator to run one of these tractors properly.
Do you remember the old International Dozers that started on gasoline then you moved so levers and switched it over to run on diesel. PITA. i don't miss them or pony motors.
I learned to operate an old cat that was even older than this one. The pony motor was hand cranked and the blade was cable lift, no hydraulic anywhere. We worked on it more than we used it. I was 16 years old and spent the summer between my jr and sr years clearing brush. I cleared 40 acres in 3 months.
Some of them dozers will run the hydraulics off the pony motor and you can actually run them and move them around just from pony motor. Don't know if this one is like that or not
Squatch was running a D4 around on the pony motor in one episode. Pony motor had enough power to move and even climb a slight slope. Enough power to jockey it around. He doesn't like to use it for that because they have gotten precious. Used to be barnfuls of used ones but no more.
Well I guess the old saying that a “CAT” has 9 lives is applicable to dozers as well. Great job! It probably doesn’t hurt that the machine hasn’t been exposed to the weather ( rain and snow) sitting in that shed.
Ok you guys - if you get a hard rubber cone or something like that - chuck up in a fast speed drill and jam it on the nut of the starter. It will pretend to to be starter motor and if it takes off easy off by pulling back the drill motor. Easy. Done on all sorts of motors. Look at that - a hit and miss engine !
I drove a dw21 with a set of rolls on the back instead of a box,then went on to drive 657 scrapers,odd times on dozers.The DW had a donkey engine to start main engine big pipe exhaust every I started main engine I would get covered in black bits of soot,looked like I had infectious disease.being covered in black inky spots.
Enjoyed your video with Dirt Perfect As a future audition tape as a replacement for MBTS, although you have many fine qualities and height you don't appear to have the MBTS crazy gene that engages so well with the DP fun gene.
That ol girl was made back when men were men and it took an operator to run a dozer and not a gps satellite! The D6 9U is the machine that made Cat into the company it is today! That’s the dozer that won the west, the Winchester of all dozers! 😂
Hey how is thing's going on the Twins square body Chevrolet let us know when it's going to be a video think you for the time you spend on these awesome stuff.
