Great Vid, Thanks for posting, I saw here many of the things my Great Grandfather talked about, he spoke of this time frame with pride, because he operated many of these wonderful machines, that's what he called them, he recalled how it took a whole crew of men, to clean out a stock yard, the job was never really completed, til it was time to start over, and the back breaking work to move even the smallest pile of dirt, rock, he spent the last of his working career in a stone quarry, he simply thought the Caterpillar Tractor was the finest invention, since my Great Grand Mother.
This is very enlightening. The 60's are being used as stationary power units, both in this video and the rock quarry units. Not moving dirt as their primary method today. Now they are used just to move dirt, or heavy objects and never used as stationary power supplies as that is not their forte. They are mobile because of the tracks, that is their primary focus because of the tracks, and why tanks are used to haul heavy armor and shells around for more advantageous positioning not used as pill boxes in stationary locations. Any static position being found is soon destroyed and when moving earth, gravel, rocks, or heavy equipment on uneven terrain that is what tracks are for. They just had not yet found this out in 1926.
Back then, men were men, and not afraid of hard work. They were smart, had plenty of common sense, and solved problems, no matter how hard. Today we have " men " who are confused about what sex they are, and what restroom to use, are dumb down by the Liberal Education System, are physically weak in body, and have their heads buried in their iPhones, know little about survival, how to hunt, or trap game, how to fish, or worst of all, not knowing how to properly handle, and use a firearm. We may have all kinds of modern technology, but at what cost? If the power grid ever went down, 80 to 90 percent of the population will be dead in two months. Please excuse me for my rambling on.
Worked construction in my younger days. Carry 20' , 2 x 12s up a 45 degree slope day after day. Hundreds of them. Think they each weighed near a hundred pounds. Some days I had to be carried home in the back of a pick up truck, couldn't get my legs working good enough to walk. I had a wife and my first child. These guys work at least that hard and aren't as young as I was. Don't know how they held up.
Because they had to no government hand outs so they can sit around and riot ERRr protest as the news says They need to make the ones work that are able !
This note is to clear up some confusion as to the meaning of my first comment. It was put in quotations to imply sarcasm that some refer to anything that is past is better. I do not believe that type of thought. It was merely an observation about the growth and change in our nation. It would do many of our later generations good to live a bit of a life without a push button in sight. Not good at all? Surviving on a small farm with a demand note at the bank, during the years of drought, with the guts to keep going while some hung themselves in the hay mow with a one inch rope around their necks is a damn good thing
Maybe this video will help more people to understand the difference between a 'crawler tractor' and a 'bulldozer'. A bulldozer is an attachment that is often fitted to a tractor. Some people call the whole unit a 'bulldozer', but that's incorrect. When a tractor has no bulldozer attachment, it ceases to be a bulldozer, even if it ever was one.
@@glennso47 A bulldozer can be a track laying tractor, sometimes refered to a crawler, or a wheel tractor...all it needs is a push blade up front...does not matter if it angles or not...
Bulldozer came from mating a horse drawn Fresno Scraper to a caterpillar tractor. Fresno Scraper invented in Fresno California around 1900. Caterpillar tractor invented by Benjamin Holt in Stockton, California 130 miles north of Fresno. Benjamin Holt was asked by the British to invent a crawler armored gun during WWI. The result was the Tank. He was awarded a medal by the British in 1919.
1"59 What is that, an early baseball cap? Or did the famer's mesh "feedstore cap" have an parallel evolution with the baseball cap? It looks familiar to me for some reason. Can't think where I've seen a hat like that before.
Gentle StormToo , it was expected back on the day. One hundred men died constructing the Hoover dam. It could not be avoided. The depression was on and any work was scarce. There was no bonus paid because the work was deadly dangerous. Same with the Panama Canal project, hundreds died from every sort of deadly incident, including malaria. We have it soooo easy.
Pulling that train was impressive. But why did they run a winch cable to pull a cable, when they could have just attached the new one to the old one and then pull the old one to the salvage bobbin and then winch it in. Seems like it would be easier then trying to get that winch cable over the tops of all those poles. Could be that there is more to it then the on the clip shown.
mark renton I was just about to comment on that, had to watch it a few times to make sure I was seeing it right. I wonder if that was actually an everyday thing or just dressing up for the photographer?
i had the displeasure to have to operate a red coloured cat forklift during the mid eighties. there was no steering wheel, just a row of sticks. i can look back now with less displeasure at the thought of operating a rare machine i was told dated from the second world war. i have not been able to find anything out about such a machine on the internet - no pikkys, no wikipedia info, no youtube stuff. great clip.
There are very, very few tracked machines that DO come with a "steering wheel", bud. If your complaint was that the tractor "only had a row of sticks and no steering wheel", you were in the wrong line of work. That's how tracked vehicles work. If you can't deal with pulling back on the left stick to turn left, etc, and remembering that the outside stick is for sharp turns, etc, than that's your problem. Many modern, cushy machines have joysticks, so you can just push left or right, but none that I know of have steering wheels. Well, except modern main battle tanks. Those have steering wheels of a sort (copied from the Germans in WWII, as usual).
i think you missed an important word. it was a forklift with wheels, not tracks. the 'back' wheels were free and turned according to how you pulled the levers. and yes i was spoilt. i had the oldest of three monotrol hysters. when one of the other two operators hysters were being serviced they came and stole mine(they were far better operators than me and had every right to) and that's when i had to operate the skid-steer red painted cat forklift. i obviously didn't convey thoroughly enough that in reflection it was a privilege to operate such a rare machine. if anyone has seen or has any knowledge of this strange creature then tell me. i'm sure it was a caterpillar.
cassidy, just for the record, loaders can have tynes (how's that for technical jargon for forks) instead of a bucket so there may be an untapped market for such a beast if it doesn't already exist. like on what we in straya call a traxcavator.
i got that. he may have missed a word but if you read his other posts he is no dill. in fact he's rather well informed. i've only been commenting on yt a short while and i've noticed how people who probably should be agreeing end up firing insults when they shouldn't. i've taken no offence. mates had a pommy forklift that was built with a genuine coventry climax motor in it. i cant remember the brand. mates had written chevy 327 v8 on it but we knew it wasn't really. anyway this is a good clip about caterpillar so i'm miles off the subject.
Why can't you play it at a more realistic framerate ? It's always a problem with old movies For example at 7:00 yo can feel that the framerate isn't good
This is actually very well done for video of this vintage. I grew up watching old videos that made it looks like everyone walked everywhere very fast and moved like they were on speed. What more do you want? There is more to it than just framerate. Or was that just some exciting new word you picked up in class today and wanted an excuse to drop so you could sound very knowledgeable?
No need to be condescending, you don't know me dude. Maybe the framerate on the recording device was not so precise hence they had to guesstimate it. I agree it's not so bad, but it's just slightly off and enough to be noticeable. Maybe if there were a few frames of an object falling with a known scale we could find the actual framerate.
the camera may have had flat batteries but i doubt that's the case. seriously, it would have been hand cranked. most modern people are more likely to bitch about the lack of colour but some of us know it just wasn't invented yet.
Well if it was hand cranked, that would totally explain the slightly variable framerate, making it impossible to play correctly. What is the relationship between the crank speed and the speed at which the images are captured ? I assume there is some kind of mechanical buffer to decouple those
my knowledge on cameras is open to correction, but early cameras were just hand cranked, then later on, more expensive ones may have had a clockwork mechanism like a gramophone which would have been better until the next advance in technology. i assume that some clockwork mechanism was employed in cinemas before it was in semi-portable cameras. but i'm open to correction.
Well, whatever it "looks like" to you, it's from 1926. Black Thursday wasn't until 1929. But undoubtedly you know that. And of course that the WPA wasn't created until the mid-30s, nor was the CCC. If you mean "early-20th Century-looking fellows wearing stereotypical Great Depression jackets and hats while working", sure, yeah "they look like WPA guys" (i.e. they look like normal laboring men from the early 20th century
Some of the utility construction crews look like Henkels & McCoy. I think it actually says that on the side of the truck they're dragging up the hill. But that company was first and foremost in the start of utility Construction in that style
That's the first thing I thought! I figured it to be a scraper, and it looks to me like it shaves off the high spots, and then at the right moment, pull the lever and it dumps in the low spots. Just like a big bowl scraper, I guess!
THAT IS WHAT WE CALLED A TUMBLEBUG SCRAPER! SOME OF THEM WERE SET UP TO ROLL THEM BACKWARDS WHEN FULL OF DIRT, TO WHERE THE OPENING WAS AT TOP! THEN YOU COULD SKID THE DIRT LOAD A LONG DISTANCE WITHOUT SPILLING THE LOAD!
junkdeal Exactly! It looks very demanding on the user though from what i’ve read but I would love a modern version with hydraulics taking over the human muscle role.
The bowl scraper is heavy on the human muscle factor, but the tumble bug has no such inputs. My shock comes from seeing it used above ground while I've always understood it's use was for underwater pond building in the manner of the plain box drag at 4:15 which they don't show the dumping of. The guy running the tumble bug should hold the rope tight when he wants it to dump and/or roll so as to not fill up though. He seems to dump it first, take a small bite off the top of the bank as he goes over and dumps again as it goes down slope. At that point he should have it roll all they back up and around, but he doesn't seem to care. I actually have one, bought it at a farm sale as a teenager just for grins, have never used it. So the bowl scraper does come in a three point hitch system with two flavors, first with the scraper edge to the front and the other mounted backwards so you back into the dirt to fill it up. Lift clear with three point and trip dump when the load has been moved to the desired spot.
What ads? I'm not even sure there was one at the start. If there was that's typical, and it's not up to the uploader what kind of ad you get. I think the ad buyer either buys a longer ad that can be cut short, or a shorter ad that forces you to watch the whole thing.
I'm 59 and have worked construction my whole life and was a heavy equipment operator in the Seabees but these men worked harder than I could imagine and I worked physically hard a lot during my life.
So hard for me to imagine the days when a brand new truck looked like that. It seems so primitive and ancient now, but these people were still used to horses and wagons. To them, it didn't look like an "old truck", it looked like a modern self-propelled wagon, pretty much. Still hard to imagine what it must have been like. We have an old Model TT farm truck in a barn on our old farm, and I've sat in it; the steering wheel is pressed to my chest; you can fit two people, arm-to-arm in the seat, and the hood is about the size of a small doghouse, about a foot and a half by two feet, sticking out a tiny way in front of you. I thought about what it would have been like to take such a tiny, frail little thing out on the road back then, and I must say I would have been thankful that the roads were all small dirt tracks back then! It would be terrifying otherwise! Imagine those people who actually set out and travelled hundreds of miles in those things; amazing.
The Fords actually perform excellent in mud and snow. If you ever get the chance to take a Model T off road, you might be surprised by just how capable and nimble it is.
Don't be surprised if the world collapse one day and those primitive machines would again be subject of your dreams, while you would be working with your bare hands to get food. We are close to this scenario.
John Doe Yes John, the life expectancies were shorter. There was meant to be a bit of sarcasm in the opening. The lack of basic safety items is cringeworthy, but the peek back in time is quite informative. Getting one’s floppy coat hooked to that long flat belt would be thrilling.... for a short while!
THAT DRIVER HANDLING THE CRAP WAGONS IS A REAL HOT DOGGER! BRINGING IN TO THAT SMALL PEN AND DOING THE FLYING TURN AROUND! I WOULD HATE TO WORK CLOSE TO THAT!!
Hmm what a old is gold vintage Caterpillar machine along influence of operator's skill.. at stock yard. Well...Caterpillar engine rebuilding is my passion
