Stretch D8's in Antarctica

[Welder Dave]

Looks like a lot of the old machines had the tracks too tight?

 

[D6 Merv]

Thank you OM I did enjoy that
Hills in the background are even a mirror image of my home territory in New Zealand !
Boy like me would have been right at home there !

 

[old-iron-habit]

(Thanks old-iron-habit for the heads up)
Took these at the CA show in Santa Margarita.

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I spent 7 days there helping set up and then playing. It would have been nice to meet you. Just got home at midnight last night. It was a good show.

 

[Deere500a]

^Did you drive or fly out? It would have been neat to see her pushing along side the other old 8's especially when that 660 came out to play. I saw the red KW with the yellow Dodge 300 there.

 

[Dr. Ernie]

Damn, that is more dirt than Mary Ann ever saw... too bad she is not pushing snow...


The tracks look tight because their is no top rollers, only a wood slide.

I wonder if she still has the reduced blade fan? If I remember correctly she has 2 blades on the fan.

 

[Shimmy1]

Wonder if Scrub has seen that video yet. He'd appreciate that for sure.

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . .

Thanks for the heads up Shimmy1

I had missed that. Bloody marvellous I liked the drawn ripper with the (I think) aircraft tyres.

Cheers.

 

[old-iron-habit]

^Did you drive or fly out? It would have been neat to see her pushing along side the other old 8's especially when that 660 came out to play. I saw the red KW with the yellow Dodge 300 there.

I drove out. Went early and spent a couple days in Loveland with friends on the way. Yes, Mike was there with his Kenworth and Dodge. He also had the HO 2U D8 and the D7with the Allis Chalmers cable scraper on it. Mike and the boys hauled equipment in for a few weeks preceding the show and then hauled it all out again.

 

[old-iron-habit]

Yair . . .

Thanks for the heads up Shimmy1

I had missed that. Bloody marvellous I liked the drawn ripper with the (I think) aircraft tyres.


Cheers.

The 14A with that sweet ripper came down from Petaluma. It is owned by the same man that owns Mary Ann. He also brought the Cat 660, the Walker Bulldog, another D8 with 80 scraper, a D6 with 60 scraper, A D4 with 40 scraper, a DW 20 scraper, and the Tucker Snow Cat. Glen supported the show in a monstrous way. I think I am missing a couple more pieces he brung to.

 

[Shimmy1]

The 14A with that sweet ripper came down from Petaluma. It is owned by the same man that owns Mary Ann. He also brought the Cat 660, the Walker Bulldog, another D8 with 80 scraper, a D6 with 60 scraper, A D4 with 40 scraper, a DW 20 scraper, and the Tucker Snow Cat. Glen supported the show in a monstrous way. I think I am missing a couple more pieces he brung to.

O-I-H, so............if you know someone can you test drive anything? The one thing I'd like to try someday is a string-control pan. I don't want to have to buy one, though.

 

[d4c24a]

might be of interest https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caterpillar-S-D8lgp-Dozer-on-Snow-and-Ice/350745131790392

 

[JDOFMEMI]

I am sorry that I had to miss the show. I had been looking forward to it, and getting to try out some of the old iron again.

I went a few years back when the had it at the Tulare ag expo. I had to sign up as a member, pay some pretty reasonable dues, and get a quick lesson then off I went. I got to try out a couple of cable pans and some others. It was a good time, and I am sad I did not get to go this time. Maybe for the next I can make up for it.

 

[Shimmy1]

I had to sign up as a member, pay some pretty reasonable dues, and get a quick lesson then off I went. I got to try out a couple of cable pans and some others. It was a good time, and I am sad I did not get to go this time. Maybe for the next I can make up for it.

Now that's what I'm talking about. Maybe there is a chance I might get to play with one someday.

 

[JDOFMEMI]

Maybe the next show they do could be time for a road trip.

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . .

What I would really like to see is a tandem scraper cable rig.

I have never actually seen one except on a few old videos but there used to be talk about a contractor running a D8 over here with two 15 yard Le Tourneau LP's back in the early sixties . . . the second PCU drives off the front of the crankshaft.

If any one can come up with any pictures it would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[JDOFMEMI]

Scrub

You have probably seen this, but if not, up around the 21 minute mark there are some double cable rigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L45GRECeer0

Some other treats there for the old iron fans.

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . .

Thanks JDOFMEMI . That was one of the videos I was referring to, the other was I think some outfit working on the Aswan High Dam.

I would love to see some good stills of those rigs showing the controls and how the string was rigged.

Cheers.

 

[old-iron-habit]

O-I-H, so............if you know someone can you test drive anything? The one thing I'd like to try someday is a string-control pan. I don't want to have to buy one, though.

Most of the guys are very generous with their equipment. Guys that are familiar with Cats have no problems learning how to operate the cable rigs. A round or two with them and let them play. I spent parts of 3 days teaching folks how to operate cable pans using Mike's, Glen's, and others machines. No big rush in the play area. Everyone is having a good time instead of rushing rounds. Even had an Aussie, old Cat restores, that lives in New York fly in for the weekend and he was on a cable pan for the first time.

 

[Deere500a]

Headed south today I saw MaryAnn on a lowboy heading north through Hayward CA. Any idea what her destination would be?

 

[jaluhn]

Probably going back home from Santa Margerita- The gentleman who owns her (Glen) lives in the Peteluma area.