This is the INSANE Story About the Invention of The Bulldozer | History and Evolution

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  • Ever since we started rearranging the surface of the earth, there has been a need to push piles of dirt and rock and, especially, to push it into holes or over the edge of a bank.
    It could certainly be done with hand tools, but only with great effort and much time. The difficulty arose with how to do it mechanically.
    On Thanksgiving Day, 1904, grain harvester manufacturer Benjamin Holt tested a new earth moving machine on a farm near Stockton, Calif.
    By the time he finished his experiment, more than just earth moved.
    The invention of the diesel-powered traction machines that could move over land too soft to support horsedrawn or wheeled tractors caused a revolution not only in the farming business but in the construction and military businesses as well: Holt's track-drive principal was applied later to everything from bulldozers to the World War I military tank.
    In celebration of the 75th anniversary of that tractor, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology put on display last week a 1929 Caterpillar tractor called the "cat 10."
    It was a merger of the Holt Manufacturing Co. and the Best Tractor Co. in 1925 that created the Caterpillar Tractor Co., which is today the largest crawler-tractor manufacturing firm in the country.
    Horses were great at pulling machinery, and did reasonably well with pull graders to spread material behind them as they walked. But how to use horses to spread material ahead of them?
    Some say the first bulldozer was invented in 1904 by Benjamin Holt who developed an endless chain tread for his steam engine. Around the same time, the Hornsby Company of England also patented their version of a bulldozer which was closer to what is known today as a bulldozer because it was steered by controlling power to each track.

Комментарии • 87

  • @BlisterBang
    @BlisterBang Год назад +36

    Take this all with a grain of salt. He refers end-loaders, traxcavators, even excavators as bulldozers, where he should be referring to the tractor. People confuse bulldozer with the tractor, he's not helping much.

  • @jackrichards1863
    @jackrichards1863 Год назад +18

    This is absolutely NOT THE HISTORY OF THE BULLDOZER. 6:08 into this it's over for your offer of a story in the title. Without dates nor facts of the origin. Although a spattering of that is represented. You mention the forties and promptly gloss over the modern followed by a highly dubious list of builders in the production of bulldozers. Then bypassing laser technology get into the GPS manufacturers which I expect to arrive at the fourteenth minute chronologically. Also the reading of names incorrect often and many words not quite right? I have time only to offer this highlight of potential improvements. It's not entirely disinteresting. But the origins needs clarifying dating and being both observant and revealing the results of research. You owe me six minutes!

  • @donalddodson7365
    @donalddodson7365 Год назад +3

    Thank you for this visual history of tracked earth moving equipment.

  • @randallruble7941
    @randallruble7941 Год назад +4

    The narrator definitely is not a native English (American English anyway) speaker. Allis Chalmers mispronounced. Calif = California. Also had to finally give up on this; too much repetition.

  • @rm3141593
    @rm3141593 Год назад +3

    @10:43 The "submarine" must be submerged under the water. 😂😂

  • @rm3141593
    @rm3141593 Год назад +4

    @4:44 "A-list Chalmers", eh? 😂

  • @Agnemons
    @Agnemons Год назад +15

    Just to be technical.
    A bulldozer only refers to the type of blade on the front. There are two major types, Bulldozer and Angle dozer with a variety of sub groups (U, Semi U, Straight etc). The actual machine is a "Crawler Tractor".

    • @travistucker7317
      @travistucker7317 Год назад +2

      Aw man, you're one of those?

    • @panhead55
      @panhead55 Год назад

      @@travistucker7317He’s correct. It’s important to get these technical terms correct, as we do in every other industry. Unlike the movies, not everything is a “steam shovel” or “bulldozer.”

  • @clinthowe7629
    @clinthowe7629 Год назад +5

    We didn’t see any foreign models in America with the exception of Komatsu until way late, 1990s our domestic manufacturing took care of everything we needed.

  • @lauriechilds6819
    @lauriechilds6819 Год назад +3

    What is INSANE, except for your commentary

  • @jeffharper7579
    @jeffharper7579 Год назад +15

    Looks like the tracks need some major tighten

    • @jeffharper7579
      @jeffharper7579 Год назад +1

      3:19 minute just to let people know.

    • @colewhite6781
      @colewhite6781 Год назад

      I was hoping somebody would address it. I don’t understand how the hell they even stayed on 😂😂😂had me busting

    • @GenePoolChlorinator
      @GenePoolChlorinator Год назад

      Very track. Much tighten. Wow.

  • @carrollsanders9376
    @carrollsanders9376 Год назад +3

    Gee I used a power grader built with Iron wheels in the 1870s, first bulldozer I used was an international with cable blade.

  • @nathantodd7433
    @nathantodd7433 Год назад +2

    The original bull dozer, was a pair of bull's pushing a a wooden plow.

  • @donivanpotter2762
    @donivanpotter2762 Год назад +2

    One of my uncles operated heavy equipment. It ended his life prematurely. The vibration from the vehicle actually damaged his organs. He passed away in his 50s. Hopefully things have improved in the cab.

    • @lewiemcneely9143
      @lewiemcneely9143 Год назад

      Some have but a lot are the same. I drove trucks and operated equipment a little over 50 years and there is a toll to be taken by doing it. I loved it but it's not forgiving and depends a lot on what you're doing and how you do it. Sorry about your Uncle. Mine were my heroes.

    • @likeaboss860
      @likeaboss860 Год назад

      Its the brain that gets it the worst

    • @wilmamcdermott3065
      @wilmamcdermott3065 10 месяцев назад

      That's bullshit I have ran bulldozers most of my life 69 years old now and still doing it

  • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
    @jed-henrywitkowski6470 Год назад +2

    Stockton, Calif? Lol. You mean Stockton, California.

  • @davidjenkins705
    @davidjenkins705 Год назад +6

    Great story. It's pity you didn't mention LeTourneau. "The Dean of earth moving" one of the worlds greatest inventors. His book "Mover of mountains and men"

  • @n0ukf
    @n0ukf Год назад +1

    how many times in one video must you reiterate the bulldozer name referring to just the blade or the whole machine?

  • @krististanley8508
    @krististanley8508 Год назад +2

    You couldn't find a picture of a submarine?

  • @prjndigo
    @prjndigo Год назад +1

    We were using dipping-sledges 7000 years ago.

  • @henrycarlson7514
    @henrycarlson7514 Год назад

    Interesting , Thank You . A fine example injenuity in action

  • @DaleDirt
    @DaleDirt Год назад

    Awesome information . Thank You

  • @AndTheCorrectAnswerIs
    @AndTheCorrectAnswerIs Год назад +1

    Came to see history of the bulldozer....saw mostly pics and video of modern bulldozers.

    • @Greg91073
      @Greg91073 Год назад

      Not to mention the amount of footage of Euro trash machinery.

  • @richarda996
    @richarda996 Год назад +1

    In the sixes we just called a caterpillar bulldozer a cat or D9.

  • @jenniferwhite6089
    @jenniferwhite6089 Год назад +1

    you will think twice watching the movie Killdozer lol

    • @elultimo102
      @elultimo102 Год назад

      I watched "Killdozer" last night, after seeing a video of a self-driving strip mine dump truck already in use.

  • @ryanv3751
    @ryanv3751 Год назад +1

    Just sayin…a black and white D6R is not a 1929 CAT 10

  • @larryl43
    @larryl43 Год назад

    THANK YOU

  • @kaimachineschannel
    @kaimachineschannel Год назад

    *Great story*

  • @Mikezulka
    @Mikezulka Год назад +77

    The white men who invented everything ❤thank you!

    • @cottonwood4935
      @cottonwood4935 Год назад +21

      As it should be😎

    • @emichaelschmidt
      @emichaelschmidt Год назад +3

      Stole ideas and put their names on it*

    • @greg1268
      @greg1268 Год назад

      You might want to educate yourself.

    • @fr9509
      @fr9509 Год назад

      ​@@cottonwood4935 as it is.

    • @3rddegreeburns494
      @3rddegreeburns494 Год назад

      LOL! Exactly. At least until the history books are rewritten and "someone" claims the white man stole it from them.

  • @deep6483
    @deep6483 Год назад

    Be a hard hot day on some of that old gear,but back then would've been hot shit

  • @brucevanderschrier9610
    @brucevanderschrier9610 Год назад

    Anybody else notice the detroit powered D6 at about 13.29??

  • @02playman
    @02playman Год назад +1

    Luckily, I know what a bulldozer is and I’ve operated several different makes over the years. This video though, to someone that doesn’t know, is hopelessly confusing and should be treated simply as a compilation of old and new earthmoving machinery.

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder8214 Год назад

    0:48 the first electric locomotive. has nothing to do with bulldozers.
    3:03 German Halbkettenfahrzeug

  • @xuser48
    @xuser48 Год назад +1

    Was bulldozer referred to the entire machine or just the attachment?

  • @DieselCreek
    @DieselCreek Год назад

    Tons of inaccurate info here. Lots of neat pictures tho

  • @ericmuschlitz7619
    @ericmuschlitz7619 Год назад

    Articulated and rubber tire loaders are loaders, not bulldozers. They can lift and articulate a bucket with capacity, not just a blade to push and grade.

  • @moose2577
    @moose2577 Год назад

    Strangest narrator ever. And that's saying something! 😂

  • @pdh__
    @pdh__ Год назад

    Bro just did a quick google search..

  • @lornemarmet5898
    @lornemarmet5898 Год назад

    I like the history but your presentation BLOWS

  • @RSPYT
    @RSPYT Год назад

    JCB don’t make dozers.

  • @liamvoelker9906
    @liamvoelker9906 Год назад

    Which I live 30 m9nutes away from

  • @PlaneManHehehe
    @PlaneManHehehe Год назад

    Did you see that's a you blade that's a not a my blade

  • @JohnTaylor-gy2ps
    @JohnTaylor-gy2ps Месяц назад

    Stop continually repeating the same drivel

  • @wrenchbender01
    @wrenchbender01 Год назад

    The incessant mispronunciation drove me away.

  • @liamvoelker9906
    @liamvoelker9906 Год назад

    Actually it was invented in morowvile ks

  • @idareid1450
    @idareid1450 10 месяцев назад

    Bullseye

  • @jimihendrix991
    @jimihendrix991 Год назад

    LIEBHERR pronounced: LEEB - HARE

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 28 дней назад

    I wish you would stop preceding videos with commercials for Kamala Harris. That is enough to make me not want to watch your videos.

  • @BobMedley62
    @BobMedley62 Месяц назад

    Your AI narrator leaves a lot to be desired

  • @carmiethompson2676
    @carmiethompson2676 5 месяцев назад

    Maybe the use of term 'Bulldozer' was used at one time. In mfr. literature & online, the term now used is Track Dozer & the variant, the Wheel Dozer. There is also the product line of Track Loader & Wheel Loader. Nowhere in the Caterpillar or Komatsu product descriptions that I found is the term "Bulldozer" used.

  • @StuffBobbyDoes
    @StuffBobbyDoes Год назад

    Too much BS in this presentation for me.

  • @jean-yvesgervais8222
    @jean-yvesgervais8222 Год назад

    the Letourneau tourna-dozer have no transmission,manual nor automatic no hydrolic electric power for every things drive,blade and winch.

  • @richarda996
    @richarda996 Год назад

    Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in the south. He was a colored man. Respect

    • @elultimo102
      @elultimo102 Год назад

      A bigger accomplishment was his inventing standardized rifle production, having interchangeable parts. (They used to each be hand made, with custom parts). BTW, a Black man invented the refrigerated "Thermo-king" semi-trailer.

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    @markmccastle7932 Год назад

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