Had the honor of running one of these when I was Young,, ,,later on i out dug a 992 cat. pulled a d10 out of the mud sideways, this was the most powerful loader i ever had the honor to drive , and maybe still the beast that never could be out dug in its class,,, i had a chevron blade and could lift my ass end up pulling out of the bank, and pull well over the 12 yards rated. wish they made them like this.. i will never forget my loader it was a proud day in my life of strip mining ,,
Thanks for giving the year of the this loader. Often wonder the vintage of the equipment in your videos. The data plates must get thrashed over the years. Keep the videos coming! Seen all of them and enjoy every one. I thought I was the only one who appreciates old equipment.
Watched a lot with the old bushrat mechanics I work with.They usually get a little nostalgic about the old days of coastal logging when they see the Madills and Cypress equipment.
Hooly schweet mother of moses man thank you very very much for filming that one. If i could only choose one category in hevay equipment i would choose loaders without doubt.....there is something i just love about big loaders. Thanks man and def worth many thumbs up without doubt
Cat got into the wheel loader building, after all the other companies finally ironed out their mistakes. In other words, Cat learned from their faults.
That's a bad way of wording it considering they make the worst loaders of any major manufacturer at the moment, even being outclassed by small swedish manufacturers like Ljungby. Spending a couple hundred hours in a CAT loader was painful.
I remember a old horror movie with a car in it called Christine and at the end of the movie they kill it with a caterpillar track loader and this Michigan front end loader can always still take out the trash as well and one way out to take out mr lahey car as well
Every single manufacturer of loaders beat CAT, it's only America that keeps them close to their heart. Volvo, Ljungby, JCB, Liebherr, Komatsu, Hitachi, hell even John Deere all have a hundred times better comfort, accessibility for daily inspections, filter changes are easier, they are more comfortable, better visibility. It still blows my mind how Cat is one of the only manufacturers who just don't take the operator into the equation when making machines and just do what's simplest and cheapest in the factory. Quite the rant to reply to a 7 year old comment but I'm just really tired of driving CAT loaders because the people deciding to purchase the machines are not the same people driving them.
Glen Ellis what would happen on the A model was the axle bolt would loosen and break and crack in that area. Daily walk around with our machines was to put your hand on each bolt to feel for tightness. Probably should have torqued them weekly . Live and learn and that was many years ago before we Learned about PM other than oil changes.
Yes, but if the productivity of this large chunk of cast iron drops, why keep maintaining it, or operate it? Put it to pasture, and buy a new machine, effectively saving money. The dollar makes the world go round.
