40 years ago I was on my first assignment for the renovation of a mountain road in Tuscany in the Apuan Alps. When I lacked an operator I went on the D5B and did the same job of moving the boulders. It was a fantastic machine, you just had to lean on the boulder at idle and accelerate progressively and it moved stones as big as it. The dozers that came later with the turbo are unable to do the same job because the engine delivers torque too high
Hi, Ron. Good video, M8. Thank you for poisting it. I operated a Cat D5B wide gauge for a contractor on the Gold Coast for 3 years doing almost nothing but levelling house sites using laser monitoring. I still think it was one of the nicest machines I have had to operate. I never did run out of finding more things that I could do with it and more ways to do them. It was almost like the machine was challenging me to do better all the time. You've seen me at work on a D9N and it was a nice machine. Open cab and all, that D5B was a nicer machine to operate. Thanks again. Just my 0.02. You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
40 years ago I was on my first assignment for the renovation of a mountain road in Tuscany in the Apuan Alps. When I lacked an operator I went on the D5B and did the same job of moving the boulders. It was a fantastic machine, you just had to lean on the boulder at idle and accelerate progressively and it moved stones as big as it. The dozers that came later with the turbo are unable to do the same job because the engine delivers torque too high
Hi, Ron.
Good video, M8. Thank you for poisting it.
I operated a Cat D5B wide gauge for a contractor on the Gold Coast for 3 years doing almost nothing but levelling house sites using laser monitoring. I still think it was one of the nicest machines I have had to operate. I never did run out of finding more things that I could do with it and more ways to do them. It was almost like the machine was challenging me to do better all the time.
You've seen me at work on a D9N and it was a nice machine. Open cab and all, that D5B was a nicer machine to operate.
Thanks again.
Just my 0.02.
You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
105 HP
I love that's machines.