CAT still delivered such loaders as late as end 50s.This cabled system was called "TRACKSON".Equipped with a cabin and in the yellow Cat colour.Were big size machines. Have been searching high and low for an image,like this one!!!! So...my great thanks for posting!!!! At last!!!!!!
My Grandpap had one like that. I remember climbing on it when I was young. We have a pic or two of my Dad driving it. They had property with small coal mines and they built houses. Something like that came in handy in the Appalachian hills...
Eu também me enquadro nesta embora as máquinas evoluirão muito tem certos modelos que ficarão muito leves das maquinas novas a CAT que eu trabalho é um 920 K pá carregadeira não dá este acabamento que estes aí Davao por conta do pesso 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍👍
The hardest part of being a heavey operator now-a-days is climbing aboard and just staying awake. With the air conditioning, enclosed quiet cabs, air ride seats, music tunes, remote camers, 1/2 ounce pressure joy-stick controls, self greasing,and GPS telekenetic grade & location dispatchment, means "anybody " with vidio "gaming " skills can be a Heavy Equipment Operator. Just no "He-Men" left to do REAL WORK-Like it was done 25years earlier ( and a whole lot of it got done before). The "Hero's" of yesteryear are GONE........
As a younger guy I am always trying to get close to the old timers and learn their magic while they're still here.. so much wisdom, so much ingenuity that used to be "Common Sense"
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New one on me and I love old heavy equipment. The guy knows how to run it too. That’s the cool thing about old trucks and equipment, they can still do just as good of a job if not better in some cases. Maybe not as fast or fuel efficient but they definitely have it in longevity. I need an old Mack with a low boy and a D9G or H
The key is the skilled operator. I could see that machine making some runways in WW2. Boss says build the runway after dinner, and by sunrise there is a grated flat runway ready for service.
Seen one of those back in the mid 60s when I was a kid, but it was even older then the one in the video. Even seen a cable backhoe digging sewer line around the mid 60s, too. Hydraulics were just starting to be used back then.. The old stuff is pretty cool.
Whoa, 1960's for "cable" backhoe's! Got a whole lot of better story's. It was 1985-2000 & " running grade" in the ditches&cellars in front of the Bucyress-Erie B17 & B22's was " commonplace. Those " Dinosaurs " were " lighting fast" when the clutches disengaged & through the bucket arm out at you some 25-32 feet after they swung around fer another "Big Bite" & they did so quite quietly as was not the case when they were " dragging up the whinches" for another "go-round". Still am surprised the I'm still alive dispite my " lightning-cat-like reflexes" of yester-year;;; and "YES" I WAS THERE!!! Those " Old-Timers" were quite the " Athletes & Magician 's" to Run those "Old Dinosaurs "---; the barely sat on the "seat" jumping around like "pop-corn" flexing & contorting pulling the " leavers & pushing the pedals. I was always amazed & scared to be in the presence of those " Cable-action 1950s style Brute-force Dinosaurs ". Those were the days, and those ( we) were "Real MEN" back then-- Then the " Wimpy " hydraulic Excavators came along after the "Old Timer's" retired.
Way cool my father was a tanker commander for General Patton after the war he drove a belly scraper on a Cat like in the video...on Guma cleaningup the aftermath of the Pacific theater...great to see one in action...thank you Shoe in Oregon
Thank you such a beautiful Nice piece of Equipment history. The guy really knows how to operate the Custom Rig. Just think about that first Front End Loader. This guy Rocks.
Love that vintage machinery, they run very smoothly Nice job guys! So no power down on the bucket, does that have friction brakes similar to friction brakes on a crane?
Imagine the skill requirements for manually operated controls instead of the electric over hydrolic joystick operations of modern equipment. My hat is off to real operators
Holy cow. Lol. How old is that track loader?? I have been in the site development industry my entire life. And I have never seen something like that. That thing is awesome.
Merci beaucoup pour votre vidéo j'aimerais ces engins de périodes car moi j'étais conducteur d'engins mais à mon époque n'existe pas ces modèles merci d'avance
It doesn't look like it to me. At 01:40 you see the little locking hook being actuated to release the bucket, I'd be surprised if that mechanism was adjustable with the cable pulling the hook and the bump stop and all. I assume the bucket was given a slightly downward attack angle so that it digs into the ground naturally if lowered all the way.
That's awesome. However I'd like to see it really get a bite. An can u curl bkt down to make it dig or its just level an that's it?? Very cool ol tractor either way. I understand these guys r there to enjoy themselves an not stress thst old iron. I guess just 30 yrs operating makes me wanna see it grunt
he has to lean left or right to see ahead clearly. I find it a bit inconvenient, I know the front has enough meshes for the driver to see ahead but it's not very clear.
Awesome machine, sure beats doing it by hand. Operator knew how to handle it, but put that machines in the hands of a Novice and it's hell on tracks. Terrible visibility frontal visibility, no rops/shade, dumping that bucket was brutal.
