X Quad Operator
Well-Known Member
Good morning everyone. I've got a question, the question is did Caterpillar put the Hydrolic front end lifts on the DW20's, like they did on the 666's? I have a photo of a DW20 I ran in 1962 that shows the hydroilc cylinder right behind the seat on the left side of the seat. I had just become a Union member then, what I remember is only the rams, there was no controls that I could see. Of course I was just starting out and the scrapers were new to me. I guess the question here is, is there any old timers out there that ran the DW20's that had the front end lift on it, and tell us how everything worked. The first 666's I ran were the 9 speed models I don't remember them having the front end lifts on them, but I do remember the B model 666's having them and I've worked around a lot of 666's in my life time. McCoy was one of the contractors and he had a !%*! pot load of them, another was Cassidy-Vaerlla in the 70's they had five 666's the scrapers had been stretched 22 inches and had 4' side boards and it took 5 D9's to get a heaped load and Kassidy-Varella wasn't afraid to put the power behind you. This question goes out to everyone World wide.
Mike Nebergall
Mike Nebergall