Squizzy246B
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no D13.........cuz 13 is an unlucky #........there going straight to the D14......!
Ahhh....well, that explains why I haven't actually heard the rumour then
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Any rumours/news on D12?
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Ahhh....well, that explains why I haven't actually heard the rumour then
freewheeler
New Member
When the rocks get to big for a D11 you put two of them sidexside and you get a D22.
While were wishing, I want a D15. Or why not a D11 with 5 ft wide tracks and a light weight blade, sure would be handy laying down them big stockpiles of sticky subsoil.
While were wishing, I want a D15. Or why not a D11 with 5 ft wide tracks and a light weight blade, sure would be handy laying down them big stockpiles of sticky subsoil.
roddyo
Senior Member
87 Corvette
It could be like the Corvette. You know they skipped a year around 1986 or 87.
Ahhh....well, that explains why I haven't actually heard the rumour then
It could be like the Corvette. You know they skipped a year around 1986 or 87.
Northart
Senior Member
special tool
Senior Member
DPete
Senior Member
Mmmmmm, that's interesting, any more Northart?
RollOver Pete
Senior Member
Nice photochop :thumbsup
Northart
Senior Member
Imaginary Cats
Hi DPete, RolloverPete,
I'm sure that was Swishy's imagination at work from the ACMOC BB. He had a lot more.
Quad D11's , SxS D11's, and every combination imaginable.
The Cat D2's pics are his, and the Swamp crawler he found somewhere.
The Quad Triangle track dozer pic was actually a Cat 988 with the Quad Triangle tracks. Just Photoshopped.
Hi DPete, RolloverPete,
I'm sure that was Swishy's imagination at work from the ACMOC BB. He had a lot more.
Quad D11's , SxS D11's, and every combination imaginable.
The Cat D2's pics are his, and the Swamp crawler he found somewhere.
The Quad Triangle track dozer pic was actually a Cat 988 with the Quad Triangle tracks. Just Photoshopped.
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roddyo
Senior Member
I'm older than I though I was
I didn't remember what year it was, I knew if I put something up here someone would correct me.
I about half expected Deas to tell that whatever year it was that Holden a Division of GM made the Corvette that year so in reality there never was a missing year.
'83
I didn't remember what year it was, I knew if I put something up here someone would correct me.
I about half expected Deas to tell that whatever year it was that Holden a Division of GM made the Corvette that year so in reality there never was a missing year.
Cat-385BL
Member
Deas Plant
Senior Member
Missing in In-action
Hi, Folks.
Sign in the paymaster's office at 122 mile camp on the Mount Newman Iron Ore Rail Project, Western Australia, 1968:
"If you haven't heard a good rumour by 10 o'clock, START one."
I know nothing of cars - they don't interest me as I have bigger fish to be interested in.
Northart, Swishy did not find that swamp thingummyjig. The clipping was originally emailed to me by a contact in France who has an abiding interest in jungle crushers and he wanted more information, which I was not able to supply. It was reportedly built for clearing work on the long-abandoned Cross-Florida Canal in the late 1950's. I have been told - unconfirmed - that a Fort Lauderdale outfit named Gregg, Gibson and Gregg may have been involved. A bloke who claimed to have worked there as an apprentice reckoned that the older guys used to ocasionally talk about such a beast but he never saw any visual evidence of it.
A contact in Texas once said that a freind of his claimed to have come across some HUGE track pads in a Florida scrap yard. He reckoned his informant claimed that these track pads were 10 feet across, which would match the information in that clipping. That is all I have ever been able to uncover. I have sent out quite a few feelers to different places, almost all fo which have remained un-answered to this day.
I would very much appreciate any further information on this jigger.
Hi, Folks.
Sign in the paymaster's office at 122 mile camp on the Mount Newman Iron Ore Rail Project, Western Australia, 1968:
"If you haven't heard a good rumour by 10 o'clock, START one."
I know nothing of cars - they don't interest me as I have bigger fish to be interested in.
Northart, Swishy did not find that swamp thingummyjig. The clipping was originally emailed to me by a contact in France who has an abiding interest in jungle crushers and he wanted more information, which I was not able to supply. It was reportedly built for clearing work on the long-abandoned Cross-Florida Canal in the late 1950's. I have been told - unconfirmed - that a Fort Lauderdale outfit named Gregg, Gibson and Gregg may have been involved. A bloke who claimed to have worked there as an apprentice reckoned that the older guys used to ocasionally talk about such a beast but he never saw any visual evidence of it.
A contact in Texas once said that a freind of his claimed to have come across some HUGE track pads in a Florida scrap yard. He reckoned his informant claimed that these track pads were 10 feet across, which would match the information in that clipping. That is all I have ever been able to uncover. I have sent out quite a few feelers to different places, almost all fo which have remained un-answered to this day.
I would very much appreciate any further information on this jigger.
roddyo
Senior Member
Just a little good natured ribbing Deas, I wondered where you have been on this discussion?
Deas Plant
Senior Member
Nanna naps.
Hi, Roddyo.
Us vintage folks sometimes need our nanna naps. 'Sides, I do have a life away from HEF too, surprising as that may seem. LOL.
Hi, Roddyo.
Us vintage folks sometimes need our nanna naps. 'Sides, I do have a life away from HEF too, surprising as that may seem. LOL.
Haul-Pak
Well-Known Member
Who are you guy's to say a D12 Dozer isnt been Developed?
I Dont think they need to produce a bigger machine, D11 Dozers sell by the ship load and it's not gonna end anytime soon.
Talk about the electric drive truck's a few year ago would have been laughed out of the forum!
Hey Northart: Nice picture.
I Dont think they need to produce a bigger machine, D11 Dozers sell by the ship load and it's not gonna end anytime soon.
Talk about the electric drive truck's a few year ago would have been laughed out of the forum!
Hey Northart: Nice picture.
Deas Plant
Senior Member
Talk?
Hi, Haul-Pak.
Even more notably, talk of a Cat diesel-electric dozer would have been greeted with gales of laughter 12 months ago. Not now. Mind you, IMHO the video that they released at the time WAS a bit of a joke.
I personally have NO idea what Cat may have on the drawing board since they have, in their 'limited wisdom', chosen to not take me into their confidence. How-wevver, the only dozer bigger than the D11 currently on the market appears to have shown itself to be a bit of a 'fizzer' with dead ones lying all over the place and D11 sales beating it every which way. Maybe there is a market for a bigger dozer in jobs like mine reclamation which is likely to become an even bigger task in the future.
Maybe I'm a trifle myopic but I can't see a lot of application for a bigger dozer in most contracting/civil engineering situations simply because of the difficulty of moving them, unless somebody can come up with DURABLE form of modular dis-assembly and re-assembly to make the task easier and quicker.
There ARE road-registerable floats currently available that WILL carry up to 250-300 tons but even they would be expensive to use in moving a dozer of say 150-170 tons. What's more, most road authorities, at least DownUnder, tend to frown on using these rigs to transport loads in one piece which could have been broken down into lighter loads. Party poopers. I KNOW the 'gear-jammers' would love to be able to brag that they had shifted a 170-ton dozer somewhere.
Just my 0.02.
Hi, Haul-Pak.
Even more notably, talk of a Cat diesel-electric dozer would have been greeted with gales of laughter 12 months ago. Not now. Mind you, IMHO the video that they released at the time WAS a bit of a joke.
I personally have NO idea what Cat may have on the drawing board since they have, in their 'limited wisdom', chosen to not take me into their confidence. How-wevver, the only dozer bigger than the D11 currently on the market appears to have shown itself to be a bit of a 'fizzer' with dead ones lying all over the place and D11 sales beating it every which way. Maybe there is a market for a bigger dozer in jobs like mine reclamation which is likely to become an even bigger task in the future.
Maybe I'm a trifle myopic but I can't see a lot of application for a bigger dozer in most contracting/civil engineering situations simply because of the difficulty of moving them, unless somebody can come up with DURABLE form of modular dis-assembly and re-assembly to make the task easier and quicker.
There ARE road-registerable floats currently available that WILL carry up to 250-300 tons but even they would be expensive to use in moving a dozer of say 150-170 tons. What's more, most road authorities, at least DownUnder, tend to frown on using these rigs to transport loads in one piece which could have been broken down into lighter loads. Party poopers. I KNOW the 'gear-jammers' would love to be able to brag that they had shifted a 170-ton dozer somewhere.
Just my 0.02.
Northart
Senior Member
Crawler crusher
Hello Deas Plant,
Hhmmnn, well if I made a mistake on the photo credit ,it's my fault, I stand corrected.
I have another of the same with Swishy's logo.
This is all I have.
Another colorful local passed away a few yrs ago, claimed to have invented a dozer, with the engine inside the track. Maybe he had something to do with this. He was nearing the end, and was not coherent many times, I suspect to medications. I tried my best to get a clear story, but all was a fog.
Hello Deas Plant,
Hhmmnn, well if I made a mistake on the photo credit ,it's my fault, I stand corrected.
I have another of the same with Swishy's logo.
This is all I have.
Another colorful local passed away a few yrs ago, claimed to have invented a dozer, with the engine inside the track. Maybe he had something to do with this. He was nearing the end, and was not coherent many times, I suspect to medications. I tried my best to get a clear story, but all was a fog.
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Deas Plant
Senior Member
Swishy's continuing piracy.
Hi, Northart.
I suspect that our photo-phiddling phriend may have pirated those photos from the Florida state archives pages as I have seen them there in connection with the Cross-Florida Canal. The one shown in Swishy's phiddled photos is a smaller version and appears in several places in those archives. I would guess its weight to be around 50 - 60 tons, maybe.
The one in the clipping, I have not been able to find anywhere, especially not in those archives. The caption with the clipping gives its weight as 300 tons.
It's always sad when an old-timer who may have interesting information 'loses the plot' and can no longer communicate properly. We all have to go sometime but I think I'd like to keep most of my marbles until the end. Then again, that might depend on who is around pestering me too. Do you know any of the close friends and associates of the dead man who may have a clue or two about the gadget of which he spoke?
Catchyalater.
Hi, Northart.
I suspect that our photo-phiddling phriend may have pirated those photos from the Florida state archives pages as I have seen them there in connection with the Cross-Florida Canal. The one shown in Swishy's phiddled photos is a smaller version and appears in several places in those archives. I would guess its weight to be around 50 - 60 tons, maybe.
The one in the clipping, I have not been able to find anywhere, especially not in those archives. The caption with the clipping gives its weight as 300 tons.
It's always sad when an old-timer who may have interesting information 'loses the plot' and can no longer communicate properly. We all have to go sometime but I think I'd like to keep most of my marbles until the end. Then again, that might depend on who is around pestering me too. Do you know any of the close friends and associates of the dead man who may have a clue or two about the gadget of which he spoke?
Catchyalater.
Northart
Senior Member
Past sources
Hello Deas Plant,
No , he was a WW2 veteran, and his associates of the younger days are most elsewhere or gone.
I did glean that he had something to do with the Stretch D8-14A's . He spoke in great detail about the military using them, in Greenland.
There are some here in Alaska somewhere. I seen them years ago , myself. Never even thought about taking a picture back them days.
Still looking. The computer age and internet sure has provoked lotsa interest in people like myself, in learning about the history of such. :usa
Hello Deas Plant,
No , he was a WW2 veteran, and his associates of the younger days are most elsewhere or gone.
I did glean that he had something to do with the Stretch D8-14A's . He spoke in great detail about the military using them, in Greenland.
There are some here in Alaska somewhere. I seen them years ago , myself. Never even thought about taking a picture back them days.
Still looking. The computer age and internet sure has provoked lotsa interest in people like myself, in learning about the history of such. :usa
Deas Plant
Senior Member
Computer age.
Hi, Northart.
I too know a LOT more now than I would have without computers and the internet. What's more, I have been able to share that knowledge and my experience with people up to half a world away whom I may NEVER meet face to face. There are some minuses about the internet, like the spread of child pornography and such like, but I think the plusses FAR outweigh those minuses.
There's no way I could have collected or shared my library of vinatge machinery photos without the 'net either.
Catchyalater.
Hi, Northart.
I too know a LOT more now than I would have without computers and the internet. What's more, I have been able to share that knowledge and my experience with people up to half a world away whom I may NEVER meet face to face. There are some minuses about the internet, like the spread of child pornography and such like, but I think the plusses FAR outweigh those minuses.
There's no way I could have collected or shared my library of vinatge machinery photos without the 'net either.
Catchyalater.
Northart
Senior Member
Internet
Hi Deas Plant,
Just Delete that "NEVER" and change it to "HOPE" .
Like my Dentist said , peoples finances drive their decisions.
Meantime sure is a pleasure to communicate with this modern technology.
My Grandparents thought to recieve a letter with a 3 week old PostMark was just terrific.
Anyway back to modern visions of a BIGGER Caterpillar Dozer . The Moment will come , via technology. Caterpillar has the idea, Modular components .
Like the crane people, strip down into the least moveable parts for legal shipments.
Whats the limits ?? Imagination and the market place. :usa
Hi Deas Plant,
Just Delete that "NEVER" and change it to "HOPE" .
Like my Dentist said , peoples finances drive their decisions.
Meantime sure is a pleasure to communicate with this modern technology.
My Grandparents thought to recieve a letter with a 3 week old PostMark was just terrific.
Anyway back to modern visions of a BIGGER Caterpillar Dozer . The Moment will come , via technology. Caterpillar has the idea, Modular components .
Like the crane people, strip down into the least moveable parts for legal shipments.
Whats the limits ?? Imagination and the market place. :usa