Lars-Gunnar
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Ps: Welcome Robert Vanatta. I´ve been on your site many times. Great one. Keep up the good work!
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dieseldave wrote:rvannatta, Ok, youre the guy with the bulldozer pageLars-Gunnar helped me make the connection- Im a little slow
A pleasure to make your acquaintance.
Lars-Gunnar wrote:Robert, my first photo I saw when I enter your site year ago was a large Allis Chalmers type 41 I think. It seems as it was larger than the old DC8 or 9. The blade was of the large type on it. Our 10-tons former army tractor hauled it on a foto you have posted. Was it a bad or god caterpillar?
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Deas Plant wrote:Hi, DieselDave.
No, I never did get to run any early D9s. I started at the D9G and went on from there. Ive had my delicate posterior on a couple of older D8 2Us, and some older D7s, 3Ts and 17As, but none of the early D9s. I reckon I would have had fun with them too.
Rvannatta, welcome to this little corner of cyberspace which Holger has so generously put together for us. I too have visited your site on many occasions and found it very interesting, especially the sections on logging and logging machinery. I grew up in the big timber country of Western Australia in the 1950s when Cat 9U D6s were still in vogue. Its a different game now.
friend of mine used an early 18a for a long time. It was really much like the other early cats.---- too heavy for its horsepower---though that is the reason that cat became an early legend of reliabilty. the machines were so gutless that they wouldnt hurt themselves.
dieseldave wrote:friend of mine used an early 18a for a long time. It was really much like the other early cats.---- too heavy for its horsepower---though that is the reason that cat became an early legend of reliabilty. the machines were so gutless that they wouldnt hurt themselves.
Maybe a real early 268hp D9 might be heavy for its weight, but by the time mine was made they had it cranked to 320 hp, and at 56,000lbs (probably 70,000lbs or so with blade, CCU, fuel, oil, dirt, etc) it compares very favorably to the brand new D6R series III Im running now (200hp, 45000lbs) both are right around 220 lb per hp. I agree that the early D2s thru D8s were heavy and overbulit for their hp compared to the competition.
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