One prime example of a useful 'old CAT' is the CAT 660 three-axle scraper (last built early 1979)...There are contractors and PRIVATE OWNERS who still use the 660 which proves that 'old CATS' do, indeed, have 'nine lives'!
if he had loaded the dozer closer to the truck and not all of the weight on the trailer. there wouldn't have been this much trouble. not enough weight on the drives.
@Mr Sunshines And you dont nothing about driving truck. Weight to working wheels and it helps, and hell to your physics. Dozer can move that long that you are not open road with out any problem.
Because the old CATS are working harder and better than any of the new emissions Detroits, Mercedes, and Cummins. I work at a Freightliner/Western Star dealership/shop and the new engines spend more time in the shop with work being done to the DEF and emissions systems than they do on the road. Many guys are opting to buy glider kits and throwing a pre-emissions CAT in them.
I never load an RGN where I have to turn around loaded. Always turn around empty, and set up the breakdown and loading where I am heading out strait on. No the Peterbuilt did not get stuck, but if he had the time wasted is not realistic. Besides turning sharp like that (in the video) is hard on lockers.
Saw it in Gilboa NY Catskill Mnts,Large 28 wheel trailer carring a turbine up hill.Hot day 90-F.1/2 way up the tires sank into the black top.Should have hauled early in the Morn when road was cool.
@lordtaw if you aregoing to talking suspensions you have tob more specific, peterbilt alone has 5 or6 different types. And that is air trac. It walks way better than any spring ride, but that is hardly off road
rings and liner are wasted or you have a broken ring so you are getting blowby... when the engine is running and you open the filler cap you should see and feel the compresion of the cylinders ...
Lol, I need to teach that driver a lesson. The reasons he spun out: 1. You are supposed to put the bade on the deck,not on the trailer tires. 2. Any time you start spinning,never,ever ever ever do what he did. Spinning even more got him stuck down even more. Yeah he got out, but just barely.
For now it's going to sit. Later on the engine will be disassembled to see what exactly is going on inside. Engine oil literally flies out of the exhaust pipe.
Putting the load closer to the traction wheels would've improved the handling a lot, I wouldn't be surprised to see the truck drive away with the weight of the dozer as close as possible to the truck
Then you risk overloading the drives, plus weight is good in a low traction situation up to a point. Put to much on and you just sink, it looked like it was digging in and only sinking a little so I'd say he was properly loaded,
They help when you're empty but loaded not so much, i run pup and truck generally around 102,000 pounds and used to get stuck every day in pits but my buddy at the tire shop did me a solid when it came time for new tires, he got a set of regroovable tires and cut the tread twice as deep and cut lugs out so its more like a mud tire, i haven't gotten stuck since. I even tried getting a set of those truck claws but they broke within 30 seconds and didn't get me unstuck
wow.. not the smartest move.. for a haul like that with over road truck stay on road.. let the dozer makes it on way back there haha. especially with a load that heavy.
Damn ive seen some stupid comments on here, ppl think because of the brand of a truck its less likely to get stuck, all trucks are pretty much them same in that aspect.... if you get on greasy ground youll set there and spin regardless the brand of a truck lol
That ole "large car" wasn't stuck. He spun here & there but he wasn't stuck. He made it out under his own power! But why try to load the heavy equipment out there in the wet grass? It doesn't make any sense. If they start & move on their own, then detach from the lowboy there on the hard packed road that was there, load & unload the equipment on the dry surface! I mean ya drove to the wet area on a hard dry surface, so do the work from there! Talkin from experiance!
Love old machines, better to use that old cat for parts then to be melted down into cheap China junk. keep the history alive on what it was like to really operate a machine. Phil
