Starting Up The Old Caterpillar SIXTY 

my god those old flat heads sound amazing

The only "safety-sheilds" in those days was the training and how well you learned it. Plenty of folks learned the hard way, and some even survived. It took a lot of skill, respect and raw-nerves to work with these old timers.

The Sixty is just incredible. This is what Caterpillar means to me. You must see one in person to understand what it does for people! That engine is huge.

Love that sound so much!

Oh man I love these machines, & what a sound !

Now THAT is low end grunt!

Some serious hardware going on!

Now that's what I call a real four-banger!

Built before lawyers. Geezuz put some grease on that old girl!

I love the old dozers catrepiler

God damn widowmaker

absolutely GREAT, thank you kindly

Veri Nice historical caterpillar sixty

gasoline engine here, compression release valves let you turn the engine. When it fires, its under very little compression. You then close the compression valves before it will pull much. With them open, the engine runs but lots of pressure comes out the open valves. Timing is retarded but it has a spring cocking and release mechanism which quickly fires or snaps and gives velocity to the coils to provide a strong spark even with engine turning very slow. Once engine is up to minimum speed, the cocking no longer occurs and spark runs normally. At that time, spark can be adjusted to give strong power. Kinda neat units!! Thanks

I'd like to give my neighbor about 20 seconds warning before I drove this through her house.

yup the military hated these...fellas were using their guns to start them and bending the barrels

My brother's old boss in vegas had a fifteen sitting in the yard that I so badly wanted to get running. He was uninterested though, unfortunately. I think it would have been a blast

Huge and robust! With a lot of the mechanicals exposed for everyone to see how they work. Very different from todays machines.

would be a pain to get caught in the flywheel...

Unbelievable!

the soviets mass produced this model in huge numbers.............didnt pay cat anything lol

Yeah, I would think that a person couldn't overcome the compression pressure fast enough to rotate the engine to start it. It appears that the valves let out just enough pressure that a person can turn it over, but not too much that it can't start.

Cool

Is that Cleve Klankenschnorbler at the controls? He's lost a lot of weight since last time.

What kinda levis are those pardner?

What does the water do? form a vacuum break?

Something about starting an engine by putting a crowbar in the flywheel always seemed so wrong to me. i can just imagine it'd fly out & hit someone, most likely me.

It's all fun and games, 'til someone gets their wiener caught in the flywheel!

I think that this must be impossible to start without those valves on the sides of the cylinders...

You do know that if you pull both steering clutches it will slip right into gear

i scrapped out 2 D4s and a D3 two of them ran

looks like a good place to loose an arm

would have been nice if the other engines in the background were turned off.

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The only thing to see is a fly wheel. Don’t quit your other job

Man, that guy should just close his mouth.

Where is the sound???