Cat loader frame

The 950E was built as a "special" by Cat - 5R-8015 Special Loader Arrgt.
Probably a lot more details hidden away in some Custom Shop (or Military) Manual somewhere. There's nothing in the public domain.

Nige said:

Lift Arms are NOT supposed to look like this BTW.........

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Really I thought that was some new quick detach boom system! The reattach might be a bit slower however!

Believe it or not but breaks like that were repaired in our neck of the woods, despite the factory being dead-set against it ......... this is a different one, broken further up.



Weld Prep & Alignment


Simultaneous welding and the alignment jig that was used to keep the arms pretty much in line (it was line bored afterwards)


Stress Relief

The finished repair "You can't see the join"

Nige you people sure do some good work! Would love to just hang out in your shop for a few days.

Kind of reminds me of a guy that was at the Cummins school I attended back in the late 1970's. He was from an operation somewhere south of Mexico. He was asking the instructor about some injection pump parts and why they might fail.

He was saying how due to long lead time to get new parts they were making the parts in their owm machine shop. The instructor basically said "No Way!" those are special heat treated steel parts! Guy said you do what you have to do or it shuts down a multimillion dollar operation for weeks.

The parts they were making only lasted say a couple weeks but they made up a bunh at a time and just replaced them as needed. He also had a whole list of spare parts he was going to be taking back in his luggage!