I have never seen a TD24 but first summer out of high school I learned to operate a TR18 with a 9 yd. Bucirus Erie scraper building up gravel roads at ends of new bridges on county road. First year of college I ran the same rig on Saturday and Sunday leveling ridges in field for a rice farmer. That was in 1952 and he paid me $1.50 per hour. Thought I was rich, made $30 in two days.
As a 15/16 year old ran one pulling a pan stripping top soil and then later burying tree stumps on eastern Long Island. Been in love of big machines ever since!
got to work with one of these old girls the same as yours expect no hyd it was a cablehorse great vid enjoy it much also the ride on these machine is the best thanks
I did my diesel mechanics apprenticeship on the IH line of machines here in Australia in 1955 to 1959, and worked as a field service guy on these machines for a number of years. Loved listening to that old girl, brought back memories
We had a TD 6 when I was growing up , that old cat did a lot of work , when Dad died it was still used up till a head gasket leak or something filled the oil pan over the winter & rusted the crank solid . My brother donated it to the museum in our home town , kinda miss that cat ! ( caterpillar)
The fun part was cranking it. It had a pony gasoline motor that you crank and let warm up, then pushed the clutch that rolled the big diesel motor to crank it. The bid diesel motor coughted and blew out big puffs of black smoke till it cranked. Oh for the good memories this has brought to me.
Así con Pony motor era Caterpillar.. IHC ,El mismo motor diesel al momento de arranque se transformaba en motor de gasolina Arrancaba como cualquier motor a gasolina y luego de unos segundos ,mediante un juego de palancas pasaba a diesel Una maravilla de la ingeniería IHC
She's a good ole girl!! We have a TD-15 Here on the place with a V-PLOW! on it lol just to bust the dam lane open! In winter but hell Jeff we ain't had enuff dam snow around our parts here to build a dam snowman!! The last 8 years
cool... this brings back memories my dad had a TD20 about the same vintage that I learned on but the guy he bought it from took the winch off and converted it to a hydraulic machine.
Don't remember the # or series but got to use an air cooled Lamborghini crawler back in 72 or 3. Got a D6 stuck with an 18 ft disc, 2 wheel tractors couldn't pull me out but the lambo did. It was a 2 stroke engine if I remember right.
Neat old "Tired & Dirty 24" still gettin er done, Jeff without getting into specific's I know all too well your pain with parts person's and it finally went away with retirement. 👍
This is the first dozer I ever ran at 11 yrs old and ended up twisting a giant pine tree in cicles trying to wring off the tap root and it came over top of the blade and cleaned the hood off and dirtyed my knickers !!
When I was young they unloaded a brand new 24 at a forest fire and the salesman running her was putting on a big show and never got 300 feet till he bogged her solid. Everyone would have laughed more but it was needed and the fire burn't fo 30 miles. The fire was out before they got another tractor to get the Td24 out.
It would be nice if there was an explanation about what the operator was doing digging the trench. Irrigation? Also, for those who don't know this International TD24 tractor is old! Notice the way it is started, the cable controlled blade and the standard transmission with operator operating the clutch lever by hand as he moves back and forth. Also, why are we seeing a close up of the back of the tractor and the tracks?
Gee thanks for your insight on how old that td24 is. I'm sure all the viewers on this channel are too dumb to historically place a cable dozer. As for the close up on the back of the tractor, why not. Don't see many vids on your channel. Just enjoy and stop being negative
Hey JPayDirt, Mr. TD24 is pretty darn funny. You ought to do some updated videos with him. I got a feeling that he flies a aeroplane and I'm thinking his flying machine operates a bit like his IH? A video on that might be entertaining?
International Harvester Co. construction-equipment became Dresser then later merged with Komatsu , know as Komatsu Dresser till 1994, when Komatsu bought out Dresser's share.
Ditch plow was homemade, good idea, made money. Big Red TD24 is a medium size machine by todays standards, on the smaller medium scale. But it was a pain to run. Gas to Diesel. English idea. Rolls Royce should have been put in from the start. But RR was not a diesel idea.
tdshaker, the gas to diesel concept actually works quite well. It is easier than the starting engine which Caterpillar still used 10 years after IH went away from the gas to diesel starting system. They start better than the starting engines as the starting engines can be quite temperamental to start sometimes. On the IH, the decompression lever does all the switching over. It sounds complicated but the starting system gives very little trouble on them.
Great video. My dad was a catskinner back in the 1940's. He operated a D8 Cat and HD 24 AC doing coal strip mining in Montana. What is the difference between the TD24 in your video and the HD24 that my dad ran? They looked to be similar. Thanks!! LOGOMO.
To jpaydirt, I did as you told me sometime back--I used the Google map link-Google Earth which worked very well for me. With regards to Lewie McNeely I really don't know what he was talking about--that I am confused which I am not. In any case I enjoy watching your videos and I hope you have a good weekend.
Yeah, I had to watch the olde Corne Popper again, sitting around waiting for you to go to the bank with all that money you're making so you can make another shoot. Old poppers never die, they just keep on poppin'! BUT I'm ready for you to take that gag off the 9 and let all the soot out!
To Lewie McNeely, what do you mean by confusion? I only asked what state is this in. I was told Idaho. Now that we are on the topic how come it is so difficult for so many guys when showing a YT video just to say where they are. I don't mean street addresses but just say well southern Idaho for example or what have you. The thing to remember about internet is that anyone can watch you from anywhere in the world once you display something on YT or Google etc. I think a lot of guys forget that because their heads are buried too deep in the sand. They should expand their horizons.
tobacco72 I noticed that youtube has eliminated the "About" button, but if you go to my goggle plus page you can read where we are and what we do, I like channels that also tell the viewer some info about them P.S. a lot of my videos contain a goggle map link click on that and you can see from goggle earth where I am and where the jobs were done, hope this helps
