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dieseldave71
Приєднався 22 жов 2006
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Caterpillar 300.9 excavator 1
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My little Cat 300.9 doing what it does best, residential water and sewer work
D7E 11
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This is the site after being rough graded with the D7 which is idling in the bacjground
Caterpillar D7E 7
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Using a friend's D7E to do some grading. A really nice machine, just needs some TLC. Still sounds good in spite of the exhaust leak
Cat 983 knocks down a tree 1
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Caterpillar 983 does a tree removal. These trees were behind our shop and caught fire when the shop burned down. You can see where the shop was in the foreground
850K in cab 1
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View from the cab of a new Deere 850K I was running on a job. My favorite dozer ever so far
Chainsaw dyno
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Chainsaw dyno built using a bunch of junk I had lying around the shop
An Absolute tank of a Tractor
Chain sounds to tight but seems sharp
What are the size of your rear tires. I would like to put that size on my r. Thanks
It’s nice to see somebody turn the diesel engine over, while decompressed, for a sufficient time to build oil pressure before compressing the diesel engine and opening the throttle. So many of these guys on UA-cam don’t do that, and are causing a lot more wear and tear than is necessary! I spent my formative years running a 720 Diesel and an 820 on our Montana cattle ranch. Other than minor differences in the controls, the tractors are very similar to the R.
That’s the way I was taught to do it when starting the old Cats. I still think it’s a superior system for that reason - the ability to crank the engine with no load on the bearings. I know I cringe every time my Duramax starts, waiting those couple of seconds for the oil gauge to come up. We have a 730 Diesel so your pair is very similar to ours. They’re a little clumsy with the hand clutch and the 730 has too high of a reverse gear but overall they are well made for their intended job, and I don’t think that anything puts out more work for less fuel
Leave the hyd lever alone making ocean drive or what
Beast of a chainsaw just chewing right thru it. Hell yeah. What a good sounding chainsaw. Love diesels and chainsaws man
I started and ran a R at a tractor show a couple of years. Unfortunately towner died and after a few years the family sold many tractors with the R being one of them.
It just tears the roots and stumps out in one pass with no sweat at all,no the 983 was a purpose built crawler loader not a dozer D8 with a loader frame like I thought for years
You are correct, it is a purpose built machine but it does share some parts with the D8 of the same era. Final drives and undercarriage for sure, possibly the trans although it has a torque converter rather than the torque divider that the dozer uses. The D343 engine in the 983 was never used in a dozer as far as I know, in fact the only equipment application I can think of is the 988 wheel loader and I believe a scraper, maybe the 637 but that’s just a guess
Keep up the content man !
I’ve wanted an R for years.
Hey thanks so very much for the start/ride along. So very kewl! I’d always wondered how the pony motor interaction was was, I didn’t see it get cut off, was zoomed in on the motor start. ❤🎉
We had one out here in Saskatchewan me and dad cut wood with it ran all day ran like clock
Is this D9 an early version, as the front cable runs "thru" the machine to the rear CCU, or was it an option on how the cables were mounted.
Man listening to that sound reminds me of the good old days when America was the greatest place on earth and all this nonsense that is going on today didn't exist and men were men and women were women was a great time to live here I miss it
You said a mouthful there! Men were men and married a woman. After a full day of sweaty work, you could fall asleep immediately. Then get up the next day and do it again!
I wonder how ,many John Deere R owners lost that fuel tank for the pony motor by not re-installing it properly.
These machines were commonly used in the steel mills. The 977's were the primary machine used in my area. To my understanding the 983 was pretty much a D7 with a loader on it.
Are you taking the gear reduction in the equation?
I believe this just sealed the deal on me buy one of these 300.9D
Please forgive me if this offends anyone but what value would be put on the R? Maybe unrestored and restored
I remember all the years I operated dozer. I like the sound of starting my cat every morning. It is music to y ears to hear the diesel enging starting up and blowing smoke rings from the exhaust pipe.
Can someone help me on which of the two levers on the top of the starter on the pony motor which one is the choke and which one is I guess fast idle slow idle Maybe
Why would you drive a tractor like that up through a muddy two track
dose it have pony motor start?
It did have a pony.... unfortunately, Cat had some issues with balancing on this series pony- I had several of them apart and some were even fire cranks, some were odd fire, which told me they were having problems. The one that was on there shook like a blender full of marbles, and the block of the main was all welded up where it had apparently vibrated itself off on various occasions. So I converted to 24v direct electric start, doesn’t have the nostalgia factor but it’s convenient.
One of the best workhorses of its day. I remember as a child working the fields with this machine day after day in the spring and fall seasons. If anything happened to the engine my dad and I would tare the engine down at the end of the day, rebuild it and we were back in the field the next morning. Thanks for the memories!
Beast!
Is the electric start for pony motor 6 volts?
Yes, but we’ve been running it off of half dead 12 volts for decades
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6:46 I love that clutch dump. The slight delay when you put the lever forward made it seem like a wet-disc unless I'm mistaken.
It’s a dry clutch, I believe the reason it acts like that is because it’s a multi disc
@@dieseldave71 *Right!* I completely forgot about multi disc!
Really love hearing them old 2 cylinder John Deere diesel engines starting up and run!!!
Sounds like a nice old girl
I got the same machine except for your air cleaner pre-cleaner is a little different. You know what year that thing is?
I would love to have one I have watched them pull exhibition at a tractor pull it can't be stopped
Nice looking and sweet running tractor. It's so cool that these old girls are still out there doing the jobs for which they were designed - after 70 years or more. Compare that to the productive lifespan of a cell phone or a computer
Runs great. Wanted a big saw to port and the 385 xp was the first one given to me. Haven't done it yet but yours cuts very well.
To hear your voice. OMG. Hello!
how much did it cost u?
LOVE the old school CAT rattle, nothing like it elsewhere on earth!!! Was forturante enough to have a 983, back in the day, and a few Cat D8 "2U"s
Un D-9 à clutch, mon rêve
This is the tractor I want 😎one day I'll own one
😍😍😍
That failed gasoline tank idea leaves a bit to be desired. I could see spilling gas all down your sleeve trying to get that thing threaded on a cold day.
I reckon you're probably doing more harm than good by trying to throttle down the pony motor by choking it.
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I got that
I wasn't laughing😃 good work nice machine. I have a 73 D4D I'd like a 6 in the future
The temperature gauge is showing 190? some it was just running
I believe that gauge is broken
Sat on one of those with my brother Pat (RIP) in the early 60’s as a kid, my dad bolted in a small Austin car seat on the right side of the operators seat for me , happy memories 👌🏻😎
LOVE THE SPLITTER !
I came here just to hear the sound of that engine. I would run it a little faster (more RPMs) and gear down, I like to feel the engine working
Sure brings back memories.