Old Cats and Adams Pull Graders

[Northart]

A Cat 30 and Adams is 1st picture

A Cat 60 and Adams is 2nd picture.

[Eric]

I'd be curious to know if anyone on here has ever run any of those graders!

[surfer-joe]

Yeah! And it weren't a whole lot of fun neither. Dusty and sweaty and by noon I was always one tired puppy. The blade was an old Adams model, all manual control. We pulled it behind a Farmall model M. I sure was glad when we got rid of it and picked up a small Allis Chalmers w/hydraulic controls.

[Eric]

How do you operate those drag behinds!! Levers or wheels??

[bobcat ron]

Two words: Red Bull.

[Northart]

They were operated manually by turning the wheels . All mechanical drive.


The early ones had a dual channel iron frame.

Later ones had a single box beam frame.

The Power Controlled model had a single cylinder gas engine ( Caterpillar's smallest ) to power the mechanical drive , and levers for the Operator to control. :)

Adams had Gas Wisconsin engines.

[Northart]

Now look at this marvel:usa , no twisting the neck, here so bad.

Notice the foot pedals on the fender.

[Eric]

Sweet!! I'd like to watch those work someday.

[stjo46]

I would like to know where that unit is , I would like to walk around it and enjoy somebody ingenuity. That whats makes this site enjoyable pictures like that
Thank You

[Northart]

Hello Stjo46,

The Cat 22 with side seat was at the HECA show in Pennsylvania, I believe.

There is an old pull grader off the Old Steese, near Fox,Alaska last time I was that way. Another one sitting by Bernie Karls site near the pipeline tourist site.

Also Local 302 has an old Adams restored down at the Palmer Training site.:)

[plowking740]

I have had the oportunity to operate a grader like that. it was a little smaller than the ones above and was pulled by a team of horses.( the neighbour had a team for a hobby on the farm) We only did his lane which was about half to 3/4 of a mile long. took us four passes and then one more to fix up my mess. it was a real treat, ridding behind the team of horses. After standing on the back of that for a couple of hours, the legs hurt pretty good, and it takes a little work to raise and lower that blade. but it was still one of the most unique operating experiances of my life.

[bear]

Some friends of mine still do their logging and farming with mules. I've helped them many times and all i know is it takes one tough guy to look up a mules rear all day for years.

[Northart]

Bear;

You are looking in the wrong place unless you are from ????

The withers and shoulders behind the hames for sweat build up, is the place to watch.

http://www.ruralheritage.com/tack_room/collar.htm

[bear]

I know but his mules always have some kind of let's call it a... digestive disorder. not pleasant within a hundred feet of the critters when they have a plow down good or a turn of logs hooked up. :eek: :Pointhead

[stjo46]

This is all good information I don't know where you can find stuff like this. I guess this is what keeps me coming back to this site. If we are talking about the back end of a mule isn't that pres. Bush.