CATERPILLAR D9 BULLDOZER TRACTOR SALES FILM "GIANT OF THE EARTHMOVERS" 52464
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Giant Of The Earthmovers is a 1950s Caterpillar film that highlights the company’s new bulldozer tractor, the Caterpillar D9. A Caterpillar salesman pulls his car up in front of his office. Inside, he addresses the camera as he talks about the new D9 earthmover (01:10). A D9 operator stands on a D9 tractor (02:20). The operator demonstrates the control panel and the adjustable seat. The salesman and a client of his watch the D9 move earth. The operator easily steers the D9 as he maneuvers the tractor around the work site. There is a good shot of the wheels and tracks of the machine (06:00), followed by footage of the operator making a ditch cut by tilting the blade (06:20) using its hydraulic tilt cylinder. A D9 tractor pulls logs during a logging operation, winching the logs into position (07:07). A D9 equipped with a torque convertor pushes a scrapper (08:30); another bulldozes dirt. A D9 with a modified straight blade pushes coal at a coal plant. There are several shots of D9s bulldozing, pushing scrappers, and hauling logs before the promotional film concludes with the salesman back in his office talking about the D9.
The Caterpillar D9 is a large track-type tractor designed and manufactured by Caterpillar Inc. It is usually sold as a bulldozer equipped with a detachable large blade and a rear ripper attachment The D9, with 354 kW (474 hp) of gross power and an operating weight of 49 tons, is in the upper end of Caterpillar's track-type tractors, which range in size from the D3 57 kW (77 hp), 8 tons, to the D11 698 kW (935 hp), 104 tons. The size, durability, reliability, and low operating costs have made the D9 one of the most popular large track-type tractors in the world.
The D9 is a series of heavy tracked-type tractors, propelled by Caterpillar tracks and usually used as bulldozers. The series began in 1954 with a prototype tractor called the D9X. Ten D9X prototype models were built in 1954. In 1955, the 286 hp (213 kW) D9 was introduced to compete against the more powerful Euclid TC-12. The D9 came equipped with a 1,473 cid D353 which powered the D9 right up until the 1980 introduction of the D9L. In 1956 the D9 had its engine power raised to 320 hp (240 kW). The new 335 hp (250 kW) D9E replaced that model in 1959. Two years later, in 1961, the legendary 385 hp (287 kW) D9G was introduced, that remained in production for 13 years. Over its 13-year life the D9G became the main crawler on many job sites, testifying to its sturdiness and design.
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In the early 80s I was a field mechanic for a hard rock outfit in Phoenix, Arizona.
The company was small, 23 pieces of rolling stock including a D9H 1958 build year.
It was set up just like the one here.
The starter engine was a 2 cylinder gas engine that was electric start. Once it was running you engaged it to turn the main engine over. On hot days it only took 2 minutes start to finish to have the big engine running.
Cold mornings you would spin the main unit for several minutes before adding fuel, this had the engine well lubed, batteries up and heat in the cylinders before adding fuel.
The Ponymotor ran on gasoline, it had a 1 gallon gas tank mounted just behind the control center with its fuel spout sticking up through the engine cowl.
Year's later while I was working for a natural gas pipeline outfit that worked for El Paso Natural Gas Co., we were working on a section of the pipeline in Cochise County in southern Arizona running Cat D9s as Pipelayers ( dozer with side-mounted booms )
The job site was very remote and extremely mountainous terrain, when a starter failed, I called Empire Machine ( Cat dealer for Arizona) and was told they no longer serviced that old of an electric starter, so I had to travel to the nearest town with a bus terminal and ship the starter back to our home base in Farmington NM for rebuilding. According to Greyhound it weighed 98 pounds.
2 days later a second starter failed, it too went to Farmington for rebuilding.
It would be 2 weeks before they arrived back to Wilcox.
So for 2 weeks my routine at 4 am was to fire off the 1st D9 pull the starter, travel to the next D9, install the starter, fire it off, pull the starter, travel to the next D9, install and fire it off, then go on with the rest of my day.
The crew worked 6, 14 hour days, me, I worked 6, 16 hour days unless a break down required more.
I was staying in a motel in Wilcox Az that was next to railroad tracks that ran night and day.
One morning when i went outside to start my service truck I was surprised to see a major derailment had happened during the night. 2 trains hit head on, engines and rail cars were scattered all over , some piled on top of each other. It took days to clean it up. The amazing thing to me was my room faced the tracks which were no more than 50 yards away with nothing but open desert between my room and the tracks.
I was always dead tired by the time I got in each night. I didnt even hear the thunderous crash.
And, No i don't drink, took no drugs, not even a sleeping pill.
Just really tired.
@William Underwood that was stamped on the I.D. plate.
William Underwood , He said it was the early 80s , maybe he has the build year wrong . Any way what's the difference?
Working Man Blues💪
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you've got sweat that was worth the salt.
Good on you, dedicated fellow. Why didn't you take drugs, theyr'e all at it now. Only jesting. Best regards.
That was great. My dad was using Caterpillar tractors in his citrus orchards back in the late '40s. D-2s and D-3s for discing and cultivating. Virtually unbreakable machines. They had gasoline starting motors.
Any relationship to Michael Scott?
Yep, great machine. No electronics, nothing fancy. I had D9 E 34 A 449. Power shift w/converter, all hydraulic, U blade, TECO ripper (went 4' dp.), the whole schmele. Didn't have a ROPS when I got it but that was soon corrected. D353 gave it more than plenty of power. That machine would get down and grunt like no other and I grew up with Cat! Dad was with Service since 1930 and I grew up on big yellow screaming iron. Yeah!!
What's the primary purpose of a ripper?
@@patrickmcleod111 I think it's for loosening compacted soils so the front blade could then move larger amounts of the loose soil ieasier instead of having to cut through it several times with the front blade which would be much more time and fuel consuming. Hope that helps.
@@grantpanage498 Thanks. That makes sense. I thought maybe it was just about busting through areas with root or rock filled soil that otherwise was too tough for standard equipment to move. But that 'theory' had at least 1 hole in it.
Rippers also used to improve subsurface drainage and breakup hardpan.
Besides the electronic starter system?
I operated both a D9G and a D9H years ago and they were both a mighty machine. Always tough and reliable.
I recall as a small child going to a friend's house and seeing his father arrive with his new D9 on his trailer. I was amazed. I was sad that I was not allowed to drive it.
Our early D9Gs were delivered via RR flat cars. My father BACKED them off of the cars in a railroad siding, just like he did in the Army with 3T D7s. Now that was a wild ride, done slowly for safety.
At Anamax copper in the early 70s we used two D9s hooked together to push the scrapers thru the cut.
Sounds like the Quad 9 my dad used to run.
Pontiac Superchief
Anamax was south of Tucson, at the time it was the largest group of Cat equipment in the world. I worked there for 11 yrs, got screwed out of my retirement.
The land leveling outfit I started with in Nor Cal in the early 70's had 2 of these D9s. One was an 18A ( straight clutch and transmission) and the other was a 19A ( torque converter). Used the 18A for pulling a ripper, and used the 19A to push a fleet of DW20s. The 19A had an inside arm push dozer with a front power unit. Those were the days- cable dozers, no cabs.
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Salesman played by Chick Hearn, who later became a well-known sportscaster in Los Angeles.
They were so mesmerized by heavy equipment. It wasn't that long before that all people had were mules.
"Easy to reach from the driver's seat" guy nearly falls off the seat to reach them. Ah, the 50s concept of ergonomics and ease of use
Thanks, Periscope. I remember a couple of torque 9's on the 1st job I was on out of reform school in 1969. An 8-H was a big as I ever herded but it was a fine machine. I sure enjoy the old machinery videos. Had the chance to wear out a lot of stuff in 50+ years. GOOD memories. Thanks again!
It sounds like reform school 'reformed' you.
Lewie you did have to mention "reform," school. LOL sound like it was old good from there.
@@greggergen9104 Figured I might as well tell the truth because a lot of my truth through the years sounds very lie-ish if you know what I mean. BLESSINGS, Greg!
I grew up on a farm & ranch & learned how to operate a “WW2 Seabee” D7E, which had SLOW HYDRAULIC cylinders, for the front Dozer Blade
If it was a D7E it wasn’t WWII. They came out in the sixties. WWII would have been the 3T and 4T series of the 7.
@@localcrew I was going to say the same thing!!
Hilarious knowing that this was talking about a 1954-55 Caterpillar D9...(you can get it by the 1955 Dodge Royal car in the beginning that Chick Hearn, the actor playing the salesman, is driving)...only cost about $50,000 to buy NEW back then! See, up until around 1962, 63, you could buy most Caterpillars for ABOUT $0.50 a pound...and the D9 (with blade attached) weighed 49-tons (98,000-lbs)...so, $49,000-$50,000 for that dozer...today's D9 with blade (and cab, with climate control) costs around $950,000...10x more horsepower...and GUARANTEED NEVER TO LAST HALF AS LONG as that old D9!!!
I wonder how much the dozer would earn a day, say building highways for the Feds.
But these are 1954 dollars, I presume? 50.000 dollar in 1954 had the same buying power as 476.000 dollar in 2019.
And a 1954 D9 is more similiar to a modern D5 or D6 in terms of size, performance and price.
AldanFerrox everything you said was right except size. Those old d9’s were giants
@@TheColbles2009 Sure, but they didn't weigh 50 tons like the current models. The first serial production model from 1955 had a weight of 27 tons, which is more similiar to a current day D6.
@@AldanFerrox no more like in between a modern d8 and d9
I started on 46A D8 then to a D9G THEN D9H THEN A D9 L high track then D10 N retired now . all great machines . But I have to say I can’t hear so good anymore after running those damn straight stacks all those years .lol
I don't move earth often but when I do ,I choose a D9
Working four summers during college in the maintenance shop of a highway construction company, I got to assist the work on several of these. I could pick up a piston/rod combo from a D7 but that of a D9 had to be hauled mechanically. Just too heavy.
The Euclid TC-12 had quite a bit more power than the D9. The early D9's were 287hp while the Euclid TC-12 was 388hp. Euclid then increased that to 436 in the TC-12-1 and up to 454hp in 1958 with the release of the TC-12-2. The D9 had its power increased to 320hp in 56' and to 335hp in 59' and finally to 385hp in 61' with the release of the D9G. Just goes to show that advertisement claims should always be verified.
I had a c6..sleek gm beatuiful tractor on looks alone,They may have had more hp than a d9 but high speed 2 stroke motors were 671s..low torque numbers,my c 6 reminded me of a centrifigul clutch,,would uo to 3000
You can have all the horse power you want but it won't do any good unless you have the weight.
Operator tears off with the D9 and nearly runs over the toes of the two guys.
Must of put the movie ,Shake hands with Danger after they got flattened
he still missed!
I want to find an old land ship like this to restore, either a D9/D8 of this generation, or the previous generation in D8, a 1958 style, I've always liked this age of dozer in particular
That would be a righteous amount of work, but it sure would be worth it.
I hear ya...I would love to also. The 1970s era D9s are still around and fairly common, but I RARELY see the old ones with the cable winch blade lift. The challenge is that everything on them is so damn heavy. You need a mobile crane to work on one.
my buddiy had a 1948 14 A cable dozer for several years. his mom sold it when he moved out west and the man that bought it has a lot of that old equipment last time I saw it it was next to the shop just waitin to be put back to work
Hope you have a ton of money and time!
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5:00 that guys shaking hands with danger by putting his hand in there
How is this top comment
Underrated comment here. You can always tell when someone is/has been in the Cat family by a good Shake Hands With Danger reference.
A man of culture
I see what you did there! :)
I thought the same thing. Wouldn’t stick my hand in there.
Those old d9s are awesome, what a beast 😝✌️
Looking at the salesman's Caddy in that first scene, I'd say this was made in 1954. (A hot salesman always had a new car every year back then.)
That wasn't a Cadillac. Looked like an early 50's Chrysler.
1955 Dodge Royal...not GM Cadillac...
nope,,the d9 was 1st built1959 and these were the next series..
The good old days where you work 9 to 5 with people named Bob, Ted, Sam, Mark, John, and Mike. Came home and your wife had dinner for you and you earn a good wage. Just the good old days.
Yeah, and nowadays both you AND your wife must work 8-6 to make ends meet, and to set aside the $150,000 for each of your kids to get a college degree in a job that will be outsourced just 3 years after they are hired!
Patrick McLeod it’s the true!! The only thing is the job is insourced by someone with an H1B visa who works for cents on the dollar!! When can America come back?
cgreg Lenfound The corporations have sold us all out with all their lobbying of politicians and so forth ,all to beat down the workers, I think America is on a slow slide downhill, darn shame.
As government gets bigger, gets it's tentacles into more things, and supports more and more non productive people, it takes more from the producers, thus you have less left over. Your "prosperity" goes down.
It's really funny that more can't figure this out.......and vote for more government.
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“Hello everyone, I’m Troy McClure!”
Who cares
Beautiful machine pure power
I like these old cat film,s a look in 50s
Excellent safety and ergonomics! 😜
Of course Jeff got himself one. Jeff know's whats good. I wanna be Jeff
Old Jeff is probably dead by now.
I AM Jeff! Nice to meet you! It's not unusual for you to want to be me... EVERYONE wants to be Jeff! Even I do, and I already am!
@@patrickmcleod111 you are too young to be jeff,,Jeff bought an Allis Chalmers HD 19the next year and it was a piece of shit and he committed suiside
@@leewatkins1610 LMAO!!!!!!!
I bet the $50 000 purchase price was much easier to pay for that dozer back then the $950 000 for a new 1 today would be
I believe you are right,indexed for inflation you are correct because i bet there is 200k just in product liabilaty insurance and regulations.Caterpillar was always in the lead.They were higher priced that internationals TD 30..but so much better,And since international mmade less money
Nice. Was just looking at Israeli armoured d9s. Badass.
Love the music
Обожаю историю автопрома!
The Mustard comes Off the Hotdog Motordrome this ones in the Refrigerator. Its Chick Hearn. Greatest B Ball play by play voice of All Time!
Nice machine, kinda funny how safety was not a priority back then, compared too today’s machines.
Different world back then, people would look at things and say "gee, looks like that thing could kill me if I'm not careful.."
Back when they had both brains and common sense!
@@scottrayhons2537 100% true!!
Stupid people made safety a necessity. You have to accommodate the dumbest person.
Damn! Now I want one!
6v electrics? Amazing stuff.
Interesting that it’s cable lift but uses hydraulics to tilt the blade. (I’m not an expert so please don’t kill me)
It was because of the mass of the blade...few machines used hydraulics back then, because high-pressure hoses weren't readily available that could SAFELY push 3,000-psi plus for something as critical as blade-lifting...but winching with high grade steel cable had been around for a LONG TIME, and was proven in construction. Who cares if you blow a low-pressure hose tilting a blade? Drop one on a road, a person, etc., because a REAL VULCANIZED RUBBER hose gave-way, and you had a BIG problem!...it was a safety thing...
Skeeter thx
@@skeetersaurus6249 it doesn't take high pressure to lift big loads, that's not how hydraulics work
RJ 1999 hydraulic cylinders don’t inherently require high pressure, but most industrial hydraulic cylinders operate at pressures between 1500 and 3000psi to facilitate reasonable sized (compact) cylinders.
@@ScoocumAF correct, but big loads don't require high pressure to lift, it just requires larger diameter cylinders.
They are great.
The best I can figure out is the salesman's car is a 1955 Dodge Royal.
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I think you nailed that one, brother!! Good eye!
I work at a cat dealer and a guy overhauled a engine out of a d9g. It was big heavy but powerful and had all the torque ever.
I really like the Cat Next Generation 302.CR Cab model Mini Excavator, which is about as perfect as it's possible to get!
Daily service checks, adjustments and greasing are easily carried out,
and routine maintenance accessibility is very good.
The new tilting cabin gives exceptional ease of accessibility to otherwise inaccessible components!
These look a far cry from the mighty D9!
the boom l/r pivot cyl. grease lines are plastic and will fail.
Cat "D9 giant of the earth movers"
Allis Chalmers "hold my beer"
I guess if you sell one of those you can call it a day. That might have something to do with his enthusiasm for it.
Was that a cabel scraper he was pushing!
What a pain in the ass!
Yeah it looked like an old DW21
These old Periscope films couldn’t be more hokey, the dramatic music while a machine pushes dirt is just, well, ridiculous comes to mind.
Now thats a long hard days work specialy when you pushed into a cold head wind with all the dust blowing right in your face you had to wear gogelles and a dust mask it was rough.
Certainly didn’t worry about roll overs back then.
Still a great machine
Wonder how much it sold for back in the day.
$17.99
Google it, it can tell you a wealth of info. then 50k today 900k
**That was me on the dozer at that job site. Why, I had worked for that company(Acme Road Construction Inc) for 25 years by then, and I just retired last year, after a career totalling 87 years. Boy, did we love that new D9 back then! But as roads became larger, we switched to the D18 just 9 years after this was filmed. Golly gee, I'm running late for the bingo game, so you all have a lovely day, and good luck!** (Sarcasm)
Seriously though, why do/did graders require a dozer to push them? I know they have an engine and a drive train, but were graders just not powerful enough to move their own weight AND a heavy load?
The scraper has plenty of power to move itself and the load, but can struggle and slow down quite a bit while in the cut. The dozer adds additional power and traction to speed the loading process, increasing productivity and loads per workday. It's more fuel efficient as well, since maximum power is only needed for that brief time when the scraper is loading, especially when you consider that one dozer could be assigned to a fleet of several scrapers, reducing the horsepower requirements of all the scrapers in the fleet and the fuel and machine cost that the power increase would require. Also, there are situations where no scraper has enough traction to load without a tracked pusher.
Rote70SS well said
Rote70SS The patrol without an engine was cheaper. And as someone pointed out those with engines were not powerful enough to do anything but routine road maintenance. Many county governments bought engineless patrols. Took two men so there would be an extra vote for you on Election Day.
Patrick McLeod , Those so called graders are carry-alls , my dad ran and pushed them for years.
I take it they did not work in the rain back then as it has no operator compartment or protection such as roll bars.
Edit: 7:07 upgrade for logging has some operator protection. I take it was optional equipment.
They worked whatever the weather. They just put up with a whole lot more.
The guys back then weren't pussys like they are nowadays either!
Rain suit anybody.
They had real men that never even noticed those added frills... they were, and still are, the Greatest Generation!
One of the reasons laws & SOPs come to be is to force something that should have been done, should have been common sense, but wasn’t. Safety often comes in that category because it often negatively impacts profit. Safety cages & roll bars are a comparatively recent addition.
A toy by today's standards ....... :)
BTW ..... That HAIR ...... He had MORE than a "Little dab" of the Brylcreem ...... :)
He be stylin'!
JM: "Wild Root Haircreem".
The bigger the glob, the better the job...
Back when rops were optional.
a maiór força de topo do mundo
That's when "men were men". No rollover protection....not even a freakin sun shade. Imagine sitting in the blazing sun all day while operating.
It was possible to mount a sun bonnet on the 9 and most others before MOSHA held sway
stop with the "men were men" crap... alot of them perished from preventable accidents and hazards...
@@personalfunfest Sarcasm man....sarcasm.
Where are all the experts griping about the operator.
I love it
9:02 looks like ALCOA Rockdale’s lignite pile. Would’ve been the right time.
Several boys I went to school went to work for Alcoa in Rockdale. I applied for a job with TXU as a operator in the power-plant there but they wanted to hire me and my dozer in a lignite mine.
Is this the same narrator who used to talk muscle car tests?
How did it run so good without def???😂😂😂
pony motor is the exhaust scrubber..
i doubt this was 1959 d9,,the steering pulls out of the dash.Also the hydraulic track tightening werent until 5 or 6 years
Additionally, the carrier rollers are mounted in-board. Earlier in the series the stands were out in front and faced inwards. This was changed due to the vulnerability of the roller stands to rocks etc.
Hydro-adjust track adjusters came out in 1955 or 6. I got 1956 17A D-7C thats got em'. I think in 1955 the nine was the first tractor to have the steering levers up on dash, later in 1961 they did it on the 47A/48A D-7E and on D8
Jeff Wilson should have bought 4 of 'em.
do a movie about the gem of Egypt and the silver spade and the mountaineer
why no cabs on them? never rains in USA?
That's back when men were actually men.
@@turbolq4 More properly it's when lots of outdoor workers died of galloping pneumonia.
The sulpha drugs beat pneumonia from about 1942.
@Mr Sunshines And there were alot less tards operating the gear back then, you actually had to have a clue unlike today's rent a workers that think they can roll big iron
@Mr Sunshines asshole scumbag democrats
U DINTE YBDERSTAN WHY THEM NEEDS TO MOOFE THE EARETHS. CAN SOMEOBOUUY PLESE EXPLAINE?
The salesman’s car looked more like a Mercury than a Caddie.
Looked like an Olds to me 🤔
I thought it was a 54/55 Merc too. I had a 54 Vista cruiser bubble top like that.
Pretty sure it's a 55 dodge royal
Still not strong enough to move my sister in law 🤔🤣🤣🤣
Salesman commission .25 cents for a $1,680,559.99 sale.
ms: And that's enough to raise a family of four for one month! Great career.
Same as today!
How much money did ....d9 cost when fist came out 😊
Brilliant bit of film apart from the massively annoying periscope bollocks at the bottom of the film 😡
What about weather protection for the operator?
::hands you a raincoat & a parka::
@@HM2SGT real mean wear short in Antarctica
@HERPY DERPEDY You know it’s going to be interesting & stimulating when someone with a clever, reassuring, honest nom de plume like 'herpy derpedy' speaks up.
Brave of you to be so forthright about your VD condition.
REAL operators can do it without this fancy new ROPS, a/c, stero, etc. My Dad did it for years. I can too.
Riklaunim Arkhenneld My dad ran them for 65 years starting in Panama clearing the jungle for the trans - isthmian highway . First person across the ismiuth on a mechanized machine
And not a hard hat or hi viz in sight 😉😉
5:01 Why do I hear a guitar riff?;)
Heavy equipment operator
Subdivision Slayer!
I wanna build a tank out of it.
Komatsu's are better................
No ROPS.
Real men dont need ROPS lol
where I work we use D-11"s
I'm ,,,ummm,,, not sure which eye to look at when that guy talks at me.
Well, that's not a "tractor", it is a bulldozer obviously.
It's not a bulldozer unless it's fitted with a dozer blade. Until then it's a tracked tractor.
me pueden ayudar necesito hacer una investigación sobre esa maquina
CALL OSHA. NO PPE. LOL
killdozer
Rip
blade humming??
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First! 😊