sled dog
Senior Member
Bigger dozer ; 35A D8 with the fuel oil torque converter and of course cable blade. For sheer joy and ease of operation, 8K . Small dozer ; old straight blade 1150 case, or 450 John Deere. Crawler hoe; spent a lot of hours in an old 1500 Insley. Both hands both feet all day, but it was fun. TLB; any of them with 2 sticks. Scraper ; Old open top double barrel 24 with V12 up front. Finishing with a Blademan, I liked the visibility from the seat of an E200 Trashnational. Grader ; Well, I thought I was in heaven on the first 12F, no more swollen wrists from the arm busting straight 12's. That clack clack...clack clack of the 12F is an enjoyable sound. A Cat pony motor cracklin on a cool fall morning, and the singing of the clutch discs on a well adjusted Cat cable control unit. Pickups with manual trans, lockout hubs and floor shift transfer case. For some of you, all of the above has no meaning, for some of you the above tells you that I am an old Dinosaur. So be it.