It says a lot about the maintenance of your machines when you haven't touched it in 2 years and it fired right up with no issues. It's nice to see some of the other equipment getting some action. Awesome stuff Squatch!
Before I was born dad had a rd6 and cleared all our pasture land of rocks. Don't remember how long he had it, but replaced a piston on it, I still have the piston that sat on the back of the work bench for all my youth.
#5J1113 with the 20" trackpads will look like the badass little brother of the RD6. The stance and torque of the RD6 lets everyone know that failure is not an option. It's so much fun to listen and watch her work. If you have some extra time, could you talk about your Kubota. It seems that it is a very handy piece of equipment. Great to see Senior again.
Great to see you two with machines running. This brings back lots of memories with my dad and grandfather clearing my parents place as a 7 year old kid.
Watched the whole video, then re-played it with eyes closed just to hear the audio alone the second time. That's some award-winning audio right there, including the outro music... nice choice.
I love the sound of the three cylinder machine. I didn't have a doubt that she would fire up the way you take care of your machines. Keep up the great work 👍
I learned to run an old Cat D-7 with no hydraulics. It was a late 1940s or early 50s model. The cables for the blade ran through an a frame on top and served as a cab of sorts. I learned real quick that if you stalled the engine out with the blade up it was almost impossible to get the crank into to pony motor to restart the beast. Oh did I mention I was 15 years old and weighted 130 pounds soaking wet. I cleared a lot of Arkansas hillsides to make pasture land for a small dairy farm. Most fun I ever had on a machine. I went on to become a licensed Operator at two different Nuclear Powered power Plants. A long way from the old Cat.
This is ASMR for old mechanics watching that slow-turning old RD6 pull those trees down like they're nothing! Torque monster is right!! I doubt that thing ever gets much over 600 rpm tops. Great video capture of all this.. thanks!!😁👍
…and I thought my 3cyl ford diesel sounded good, man you can feel the power of that long stroke through the screen. That RD6 is thumping along like a clock thanks to your handiwork. Cheers from Texas
I think of how well built that these Cats were engineered .... The engineers and designers must of been so proud of their work... Now they are most likely smiling from heaven... I would be smiling as well considering that these Cats are 50 to 80 years old and still running.... The Cats have lasted for generations.... Things just aren't built like that anymore....
When I was 27 I wanted to clear some trees in a fence line on the farm I bought. Could not afford to hire the job done but was able to get a short term loan for $2750.00 and bought an RD6 and used it for about 2 weeks and sold it for $2750.00 before the first payment was due. Still on that same farm and semi-retired, I'm 69 now and this brought back a lot of good memory's of that old RD6!!!
The RD6 is a true champ. I can imagine that oak tree would make still nice decorations. Despite basswood is not the greatest firewood. The price of firewood has gone up and having your own wood grove might be a life saver in day's like these.
What a fantastic sound that tractor makes. When I was about 7 (1953) I used to visit a gravel pit that had crawlers with rope operated scrapers and blades. They sounded like yours. It really brings back memories that I thought I had forgotten. (UK)
Hey Squatch, a suggestion for your basswood wood craft and hobby stores sell basswood for carving. I'm not sure of the dimensions etc. but it might pay to investigate rather than digging a hole to bury it.
Back in the late 60's my Uncle Bill had an Allis Chambers HD5 3 cylinder Diesel bull dozer. Pushing brush, he could stall it, release the clutch and it would start back up under its own compression. It sure had lots of torque at low RPM. I am impressed with your RD-6 with the same merits. A perfect machine for that sort of work.
My dad was a gas mechanic for those old machines in the wheat fields of Washington during WWII .He was over 30 and banged up from coal mines so draft board rejected him.
this is a great channel. really enjoy seeing the old iron maintained and working and not sitting forgotten in a museum. those old cats will be around for another lifetime.
A pleasure to watch. You do not "perform" for the camera, impersonating a great actor; you get down to the nitty-gritty without fuss and get the work done - with some most interesting kit, in this case, a venerable 3-cyl diesel with the slogging power of a great Blackstone factory engine!
You weren’t lying about the basswood! I’m used to trying to dig out hedge with a backhoe about twice the size of that Kubota and it’s all I can do on roots that size too get them cut. The old RD -6 is a true power wagon.
Now....how did I know you were going to drive through that water puddle? Your kinda like the 4 year old boy who has to stomp all the puddles after a shower.... Lol. Love your channel and your astute, if not, OCD attention to detail. We learn a tremendous amount from you. Thanks
My cousin used to buy basswood in large quantities for wood carving, but he's gone now. You might put an ad out there for wood carvers. Just depends on how badly damaged the wood is. Had a friend with furniture made from it. The furniture was really light weight. P.S. When Basswood became unavailable, he bought a "forest' of Kataupa. His entire (small) back yard was filled 12-18" diameter pieces 10 feet long, standing straight up.
Great technique on that startup. The relative ease betrays a LOT of hard work keeping it up and learning it's behavior!! Love to watch your gear in action.
Just for viewers info; As a reww frows, the first wood is Sap Wood. As three matures the innermost part of the tree becomes Heart Woo. Sap wood is almost immune to rot. Heart wood is very likely to rot if exposed. A lesson to be learned. Heart wood occurs when the Sapwood is about 2 inches thick. So if you prune a tree branch do it when the branch is 2 inches or less. Forester Jim. Don't let an Arborist or tree Surgeon tell you different.
Nice to see Senior out there on the job👍 as old RD6 exhaust note deepens the torque figures rise💪💪 no high revving modern engine could pull at these low revs great video 👍
Squatch said it all. The RD6 don't care. I would imagine anything you hook it to there are only 2 outcomes...either it will pull it, or it will break the tow cable. That thing is a BEAST.
Dunno bout you lads, but my dad and i, we are gearing up to pull in a crapton of firewood. With furnace fuel already past $2.30 CDN/Litre, we need to burn much more wood for heat. Given how harsh this past winter was, we are takin no chances. Rough guess, gonna be 14 cord we bring in this summer. Still snow in the bush though, stuck waitin on the worst time of year - fall time, ride the quads till theres enough snow for the sled; but now? Cant do either. Stay outta trouble eh?
Love me some tree pulling action. Always the most inertaining though when you get a real stubborn one that pulls you backwards and starts the engine running the other way. Oil bath air cleaners make messy mufflers. Lol😅
We have some big basswoods likely 100 years old and yes they start to get core rot, and the crown is so big they come down in storms. Actually had a forester give us a name of a guy that harvest them for the veneer market. We had our wooded family property in Todd county surveyed and put a chunk of it under a forestry plan, really cuts the property taxes as it's now ag and not recreational use. I could use a dozer and a cable for a day or two to clean up some big widowmakers and open some roads!
I remember one of these episodes you did with the RD6 on pulling trees out of the ground you called it pulling weeds the episode it's good that you got the RD6 running and I like these videos as much as the restoration virestoration videos I do hope you finish the D2 dozer Before fall since it's so close to completion
