richardbrackin
Active Member
I remember riding on this machine and ultimately running it when I was about 17 or 18 on up till I was nearly 30. The hood is off right now. Our mechanic is fixing it up. The dozer runs fine. The mechanic's re-doing some wiring.
I took these pics today, as a matter of fact -- just for you all here.
Pic Below - General shot showing blade and pulley, engine, seat, tracks.
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Pic Below - Closeup shot of pulley. The blade control was up, down. if you wanted any other adjustments you had to get off and manually position it.
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Pic below - closeup of control sticks. First lever on left is the clutch engage/disengage. Next are the control sticks. The vertical control is the blade control - tensions and loosens the pulley. The far one is forward and reverse. I may have the clutch and forward/reverse switched. It's been a while since I drove it last. One more lever you can't see on the other side of the air cleaner is the throttle.
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Pic below -- these two highlighted levers are the -- ummm --- the 'keys'.
The way you start this is you wrap some nylon cord around the 'starting motor'. Basically you wrap it around as if you were to crank an old lawn mower. Then you pull as hard as you can while you jump off the side of the dozer. After 4 or 5 tries it finally cranks. THEN you very very carefully put both hands on the levers and push hard so the engine catches them and then they fly forward. If you don't pull your hands away quick enough it will break them. I wonder how many people were hurt cranking these things back in the day.
Pic below -- This is the other side of the control station showing the throttle better. It also shows the cable control bar a little better.
It was a BEAR to run.
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I had to wrap my right arm around the blade lifting lever and keep constant pressure or the blade would sink into the ground. To passersby, my arm position looked as if I was cupping my hand up to my ear to help me hear something quiet (if that makes any sense). The lever would be resting in the crease of my arm -- in 100 degree weather for 13 hours a day.
Well, there she is.
My dad told me that his uncle bought it new.
My dad's uncle (my grand dad's brother) worked on Hoover Dam construction as a dozer driver.
My dad told me he ran a D6 back and forth along the FACE of the dam.
He was connected to a larger dozer by a 1 inch cable. He was paid handsomely.
I hope it's not too many pics.
I still haven't figured how to get thumbnails to show inline.
Maybe and old Cat like this will bring up some neat memories for some of you.
I took these pics today, as a matter of fact -- just for you all here.
Pic Below - General shot showing blade and pulley, engine, seat, tracks.
.
Pic Below - Closeup shot of pulley. The blade control was up, down. if you wanted any other adjustments you had to get off and manually position it.
.
Pic below - closeup of control sticks. First lever on left is the clutch engage/disengage. Next are the control sticks. The vertical control is the blade control - tensions and loosens the pulley. The far one is forward and reverse. I may have the clutch and forward/reverse switched. It's been a while since I drove it last. One more lever you can't see on the other side of the air cleaner is the throttle.
.
Pic below -- these two highlighted levers are the -- ummm --- the 'keys'.
The way you start this is you wrap some nylon cord around the 'starting motor'. Basically you wrap it around as if you were to crank an old lawn mower. Then you pull as hard as you can while you jump off the side of the dozer. After 4 or 5 tries it finally cranks. THEN you very very carefully put both hands on the levers and push hard so the engine catches them and then they fly forward. If you don't pull your hands away quick enough it will break them. I wonder how many people were hurt cranking these things back in the day.
Pic below -- This is the other side of the control station showing the throttle better. It also shows the cable control bar a little better.
It was a BEAR to run.
.
I had to wrap my right arm around the blade lifting lever and keep constant pressure or the blade would sink into the ground. To passersby, my arm position looked as if I was cupping my hand up to my ear to help me hear something quiet (if that makes any sense). The lever would be resting in the crease of my arm -- in 100 degree weather for 13 hours a day.
Well, there she is.
My dad told me that his uncle bought it new.
My dad's uncle (my grand dad's brother) worked on Hoover Dam construction as a dozer driver.
My dad told me he ran a D6 back and forth along the FACE of the dam.
He was connected to a larger dozer by a 1 inch cable. He was paid handsomely.
I hope it's not too many pics.
I still haven't figured how to get thumbnails to show inline.
Maybe and old Cat like this will bring up some neat memories for some of you.
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