I'm a non smoker, but I've got to be honest, when those 20 inch wide pads go on, I may need a smoke! That's going to be so frickin' hot! I was excited when I saw this video posted, thinking it was going to be the wide tracks going on already, and was a little bumed out when it was the original ones, but it all makes sense now. But, argh, the anticipation! LOL
Going to have to get a foundry to do a run of track chain links. Maybe Dakota would be interested since they did build that 150hp case steam engine from scratch using their castings
Restorations do that: you take days/weeks/months/YEARS gathering information, gathering parts, ever so carefully rebuilding every sub-system and assembly. Come time to actually put the vehicle back together? Maybe a month, if that. Almost like an emotional letdown, you've worked damn hard for the past couple years, then all of a sudden, you're done.
Oh man! The excitement is building! Can’t wait for the first time 5J113 motors around on her own. Have watched the pony motor/ diesel startup 3 times now and each time I get a huge smile when the pony motor fires and an even bigger grin when the diesel pops off!
At the risk of being offensive, I have to ask if the 20 inch wide tracks are the Caterpillar equivalent of those big 24" diameter chrome rims with the low profile tires on cars......... I like 'em, but not everyone does! What a feat - rebuilding the entire tractor - every component - all the way to this point! That's a lot of attention to detail, and the exercise of a LOT of knowledge!
How come you make everything seem so easy? I'm looking forward to seeing this tractor doing some bed-in work, will be fantastic to see her in action. Thanks Squatch.
After all the slog, and old parts cleaning, and new parts hunting, you're in the home straight now. And it's good to see you happy and excited. You've very literally earned every second of it. And I love that you've used your lathe-made pin driver enough to burr the end a little.
That master track pin is such a smooth design. I've seen videos where the track chains have been cut with a gas axe. Clearly some people don't know the secret of doing them. I don't see it being too long before you are motoring around.
Absolutely Yes I understand why you need chains and grouser pads. But the way you keep taking us by the 20 inch swampers is just teasing us. I like it! I'm not afraid to admit that I'm shedding tears of joy. It's a beautiful day.
This is so exciting. It's like I've been rebuilding this tractor with you, and I can't wait to see this ol girl running hard and working like she would have 70 years ago.
About halfway through (with the D2 on three jacks) you jacked up one corner of the D2 and it jumped a bit and I heard a “ting”… almost jumped out of my skin!
You keep looking at those 20" swampers like that and your going to need a cold shower. LOL I see those and think of the places that I shouldn't go but might be too tempted to try to go. As always look forward to the next episode. Can't wait to see the old girl move under her own power and maybe even pulling a plow or disc once the weather breaks.
My late friend used to tell me that when you had to put it in 4WD, it was time to turn around and go home, Because there is “stuck,” and there is “4WD stuck.” I would hate to be “swamper pad Cat stuck!”
You'll be able to take her moose hunting with the swampers installed. With the lower track pressure and the higher surface area of the grousers, you'll be able to go places a stock D2 has rarely been. Toby, you need to get a clothing sponsor. My mother has an old winter coat she has worn for decades while putting in fire wood, but that rag relic of yours has got her beat by far. The D2 looks so good sitting on her tracks. Her first days out moving around in the yard is coming soon.
Looking good Squatch!! A friend of mine bought a D7 years ago and the left track was on backwards. We didn't notice until an older gentleman who was an operator stopped by and told us. He said the cleats don't clean out like they should. We switched it around and dependent on the soil you could see the difference
There are two issues with the wide feet One is accelerated track wear due to the grousers having more leverage on the track chains. The other problem is that, with those fat feet on, when you do get stuck the ground is too thin to walk on and too thick to swim in. Been there, done that. Far more times than I should have but I guess I'm a slow learner. They always look naked with out the tracks on.
Those were great designers back in the day. Designed a dozer with so much character, drafted on only 2d drawings...no CAD. And within that beauty they created an increasable piece of heavy equipment....and now sporting 20's.......to cool
Wow! Totally different tractor from when you rescued it from it's resting place behind that garage. Can hardly wait for the tins to be put into place, and tractor moving under it's own power. Neet!!!! Thanks for sharing....
I turned pins and bushings on an old D4 - 7U. What a job that was. It took me about 2 weeks. Worked out well. Kind of exhausting watching pinchpoints, but necessary. Great series by the way.
I've probably said this before but it deserves repeating- Your explainers on track wear are the best i've seen anywhere,ever. All the important info summarized down to a few sentences, plus that visual gauge = job done 😃
My guess is those wide tracks are snow tracks, not meant for the dirt. It will be a lot harder to turn and will wear your steering clutches out quicker running them in the dirt. Id run the smaller set in dirt, you will get more pounds per square inch to the ground. Being too light is the weakness of small machines. JD MC JD420c Komatsu PC75uu-2 Yanmar YFW20-2
It makes sense to use those old original tracks! To me they still look like they definitely have some good running life out of them! Wow I can see her start to see her running now in my imagination! She’s looking beautiful!👌👍👏
Aw I am the party pooper. Stay with standard track pads. In my opinion it will a car from the big city 32" shoved in the wheel wells of a new Charger or Camaro. Either way the S.L.V. is coming back to life!
Another great video! I've learned a lot about dozer track from these videos. I never knew they had a master pin. My experience with track is on tanks and APCs which is a very different system. I thought you were going to line the track in front of the machine,then pull forward.
G’morning fellas! Just wanted to give you a shout and ask you where you like to get your Farmall operators, service, and parts manuals from. Just snagged a new to me 140 and wouldn’t mind having them. Was also wondering what your thoughts were on parts from Steiner and if you had any other go to’s for parts. Thanks so much for the help and for sharing all the awesome work you do with us! Aaron
wow that's HAWT!!! Not going to lie though as exciting as it is to see this beautiful machine coming back to life but it's kinda sad. been fun watching this build for 3 or 4 years now and with that brain of yours spilling out knowledge is amazing.
Really liking that approach on using the old tracks to break in the machine. Once you have the "swampers" on the machine you should try out those in a swampy area. Not saying drowning the machine but seeing if they perform as good as they are expected to perform.
Really nice, that master pin design is properly genius, I hope I'll remember that one if I ever need to build something like that myself. Apart from that, I'd be afraid to damage the sprockets with that worn out chain, dunno how bad it actually would be during the run in period though and how much load and stress you actually need to put onto everything for that, I know you said it some.. what feels like half an eternity ago, but I don't remember :)
Well done, Yes, the 20" pads are monsters in comparison, The CAT Term, is the exact TERM, all aircraft manuals use regarding BUCKING, Rivets, in sheet metal aircraft skins, kind of cool, I wonder how far it goes back, and who started saying it first, Cat or someone in aerospace or automotive engineering.
Squatch I noticed that various bits of text on your track chain wear gage state "recondition" at the wear limit marks indicating that repairing wear at that magnitude is not only feasible but presumably recommended. Given that new chains are no longer obtainable and therefore increasingly rare and presumably valuable, do you intend to recondition that chain with 12" plates which is worn to the limits and how would you do so? As a side note I hope will interest you I mined opal for a few years in the Australian Outback from the late 1990's to early in this century and some of the outfits working large open cut operations used old Cat D9's for most of the grunt work. I estimate there were at least ten of the old Cat's working on the fields back then and the things I saw one of the top operators do with his machine were amazing as was the magnitude to which the ground vibrated under my feet as a D9 walked and worked close by. During that time I became acquainted with a local fabricating welder/engineer who provided maintenance services for the mining machinery. He had created a custom built 'Rube Goldberg' gadget a bit like a plasma profile cutting table works but for automated replacement of eroded metal and hard facing track chain links and grouser plates instead of cutting it. His machine used a Mig welder to replace metal on worn links much like modern 3D printing is now performed using metal deposition. Seems to me that something like that would be of great and ever increasing value to many owners of old tracked Cat machines now and into the future. I am also curious as to how reconditioning used to be performed back when those old machines were still relatively young and hope maybe you could do a feature on that sort of stuff? Several tired old D9's just sat around idle for years on a gem field further south because their owners could no longer afford the cost of operating them or pay to have them relocated and they were still there when I left the region. I have a buddy who is still mining up there and if I ever visit I will try to get some images for you.
Awesome video it's nice to see the cat sitting back on its own tracks again. The wide swamper pads will be a nice addition once every thing is dialed in. Did cat ever make like a half link for the chains or is that when you fire up the welder and build up the rails my old neighbor guy had a D8 46h and the tracks got loose so he made a plank floor on top of the concrete floor and drove it in his shop and opened up the tracks and welded all winter on the rails and put new grouser bars on it sure tightened the tracks up
I must say the pin engineering is simply fantastically ingenious
This is going to be a great day in my engines class. We are going to watch the tracks go on!!!....
Great explanation on the pins and the tapers. Brilliant locking function and disassembly process. Those guys really, and you, know their stuff.
I'm a non smoker, but I've got to be honest, when those 20 inch wide pads go on, I may need a smoke! That's going to be so frickin' hot! I was excited when I saw this video posted, thinking it was going to be the wide tracks going on already, and was a little bumed out when it was the original ones, but it all makes sense now. But, argh, the anticipation! LOL
Going to have to get a foundry to do a run of track chain links. Maybe Dakota would be interested since they did build that 150hp case steam engine from scratch using their castings
This project is just flying together now! Those 20s will look awesome on Vi. Love this project. Can’t wait to see her strutting her stuff soon!
Restorations do that: you take days/weeks/months/YEARS gathering information, gathering parts, ever so carefully rebuilding every sub-system and assembly. Come time to actually put the vehicle back together? Maybe a month, if that. Almost like an emotional letdown, you've worked damn hard for the past couple years, then all of a sudden, you're done.
That sassy little Kitty's back with her shoes on. She got some work boots on layaway though!! Can't wait to check that out
I am very impressed watching you do all the heavy work by yourself. You make it look easy. Thank You
When the track goes toe in with a 20 inch pad the EPA comes knocking
Great old videos, Squatch I am watching them again to improve the algorithm
Oh man! The excitement is building! Can’t wait for the first time 5J113 motors around on her own. Have watched the pony motor/ diesel startup 3 times now and each time I get a huge smile when the pony motor fires and an even bigger grin when the diesel pops off!
gunna have to find me a d2 to restore or renovate, Squatch you are an inspiration, thank you for the fantastic series
At the risk of being offensive, I have to ask if the 20 inch wide tracks are the Caterpillar equivalent of those big 24" diameter chrome rims with the low profile tires on cars......... I like 'em, but not everyone does! What a feat - rebuilding the entire tractor - every component - all the way to this point! That's a lot of attention to detail, and the exercise of a LOT of knowledge!
I finally figured out why you love the D2 so much. You can manhandle parts around. I’d like to see you do a D8 track by hand. 😆
Little by little the goal is being reached. Always love the learning and great information you share. My old D6 4R series Cat has 20” pads.
If and when I ever have to have surgery. I sure hope that the operationing room is as clean as Squatch's shop!!
Another explosion of progress! Congrats again. Your excitement and pride are infectious! Bring on the test runs!
How come you make everything seem so easy? I'm looking forward to seeing this tractor doing some bed-in work, will be fantastic to see her in action. Thanks Squatch.
Enjoying every minute Squatch !!
After all the slog, and old parts cleaning, and new parts hunting, you're in the home straight now. And it's good to see you happy and excited. You've very literally earned every second of it.
And I love that you've used your lathe-made pin driver enough to burr the end a little.
I'm with you on the twenty inch swamp pads! She's going to look great. Cheers squatch253
That master track pin is such a smooth design. I've seen videos where the track chains have been cut with a gas axe. Clearly some people don't know the secret of doing them. I don't see it being too long before you are motoring around.
Wow, that was really something to see, it will be a little BEAST with those wider tracks!! Thanks so much for your wonderful, stupendous episode!!!!!
You should be excited about (and proud of) this moment! This has been... and still is a GREAT series.
Well done!
Absolutely Yes I understand why you need chains and grouser pads. But the way you keep taking us by the 20 inch swampers is just teasing us. I like it!
I'm not afraid to admit that I'm shedding tears of joy. It's a beautiful day.
This is so exciting. It's like I've been rebuilding this tractor with you, and I can't wait to see this ol girl running hard and working like she would have 70 years ago.
Nice job buddy those wide pads are gonna be awesome thanks for sharing
About halfway through (with the D2 on three jacks) you jacked up one corner of the D2 and it jumped a bit and I heard a “ting”… almost jumped out of my skin!
You keep looking at those 20" swampers like that and your going to need a cold shower. LOL I see those and think of the places that I shouldn't go but might be too tempted to try to go. As always look forward to the next episode. Can't wait to see the old girl move under her own power and maybe even pulling a plow or disc once the weather breaks.
My late friend used to tell me that when you had to put it in 4WD, it was time to turn around and go home, Because there is “stuck,” and there is “4WD stuck.” I would hate to be “swamper pad Cat stuck!”
@@charlesward8196 my father got scamper stuck, all you could see was the top of stack and roll cage.
You'll be able to take her moose hunting with the swampers installed. With the lower track pressure and the higher surface area of the grousers, you'll be able to go places a stock D2 has rarely been. Toby, you need to get a clothing sponsor. My mother has an old winter coat she has worn for decades while putting in fire wood, but that rag relic of yours has got her beat by far. The D2 looks so good sitting on her tracks. Her first days out moving around in the yard is coming soon.
20 inch pads.
It's like when I was young and bought that 69 Chevelle and put 60's on the front and 50's on the rear.
She be looking NICE!!!
I’ve never heard a man get so excited about a set of wide track pads!😂😅🤣🇺🇸
what a lovely day to use the hose outside
Very informative and interesting video! Thanks.
Geekus Maximus on those 20’s!!!! Like gettin bigger tires on your truck or heep! Very very cool!
When you laid those chains under the CAT and the looped them around, that was a defining moment!
So close to seeing 1113 motor out of that garage under her own power! This is so exciting!!
Looking good Squatch!! A friend of mine bought a D7 years ago and the left track was on backwards. We didn't notice until an older gentleman who was an operator stopped by and told us. He said the cleats don't clean out like they should. We switched it around and dependent on the soil you could see the difference
Thanks Squatch. I learned something today. I've driven a few tracks, but never knew they came apart like that.
There are two issues with the wide feet
One is accelerated track wear due to the grousers having more leverage on the track chains.
The other problem is that, with those fat feet on, when you do get stuck the ground is too thin to walk on and too thick to swim in. Been there, done that. Far more times than I should have but I guess I'm a slow learner.
They always look naked with out the tracks on.
Those were great designers back in the day. Designed a dozer with so much character, drafted on only 2d drawings...no CAD. And within that beauty they created an increasable piece of heavy equipment....and now sporting 20's.......to cool
Getting closer and closer to the big moment we have all been waiting for.
He He, the excitement you had about the 20 inch tracks! :) You turned into a ten year old for a few seconds there!
I love your enthusiasm 👍it put a smile on my face while watching you eyeing the 20" tracks on the D2. Great job!
The 20" are going to be great, coming together nicely, big thumbs up 👍👍.
4/9/22; Squatch, saw you drooling over those 20" tracks 👣 but...your 1step-at-a-time assembly schedule is right way to go...👍😊🚜🧑🔧
This is just wonderful! Thank you so much for this. I have a John Deere crawler and this is a tremendous help.
I like the engineering of that master pin design, very cool indeed. A pink handled sledge, well it shouldn’t walk away on you.
she will be sweet with wide tracks can't wait to see it.
Not going to lie it will definitely be cool looking. Keep up the great work Squatch.
Very cool! Understanding the master pin finally came watching your video. Thank you.
Really is fun to watch you put this old dozer back together!! I think you need to buy an old D8 next!!
Wow! Totally different tractor from when you rescued it from it's resting place behind that garage. Can hardly wait for the tins to be put into place, and tractor moving under it's own power. Neet!!!! Thanks for sharing....
I turned pins and bushings on an old D4 - 7U. What a job that was. It took me about 2 weeks. Worked out well. Kind of exhausting watching pinchpoints, but necessary. Great series by the way.
Just love your passion, i'ts contagious.
I've probably said this before but it deserves repeating-
Your explainers on track wear are the best i've seen anywhere,ever. All the important info summarized down to a few sentences, plus that visual gauge = job done 😃
My guess is those wide tracks are snow tracks, not meant for the dirt. It will be a lot harder to turn and will wear your steering clutches out quicker running them in the dirt. Id run the smaller set in dirt, you will get more pounds per square inch to the ground. Being too light is the weakness of small machines.
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JD420c
Komatsu PC75uu-2
Yanmar YFW20-2
@@squatch253 Sweet man! I havnt touched any CATs yet. I got the old iron restoration bug tho. lol
Also the tracks are on the appropriate sides. Cat is looking great. Thanks for sharing.
This is by far the best channel on RUclips! Man I can’t wait to watch this start moving again.
It makes sense to use those old original tracks! To me they still look like they definitely have some good running life out of them! Wow I can see her start to see her running now in my imagination! She’s looking beautiful!👌👍👏
5U7066 is a great example for how worn you can run your track chains
Aw I am the party pooper. Stay with standard track pads.
In my opinion it will a car from the big city 32" shoved in the wheel wells of a new Charger or Camaro.
Either way the S.L.V. is coming back to life!
If he is actually going to use it in the fields the wider track compacts the soil far less.
Another great video! I've learned a lot about dozer track from these videos. I never knew they had a master pin. My experience with track is on tanks and APCs which is a very different system. I thought you were going to line the track in front of the machine,then pull forward.
Those 20” pads are monsters!! That’s going to look soooo cool.
Man, it feels like just yesterday you were starting to tear apart the engine, even with the long break to work on the Farmall!
Great work " Back on track " looking forward to seeing it coming together 👍
That went better than I thought,I've never had to change steel tracks,and the swampers are gonna look kick butt.
It sure went together quickly!!! You’ll be out roaming the fields before you know it!!!
G’morning fellas!
Just wanted to give you a shout and ask you where you like to get your Farmall operators, service, and parts manuals from. Just snagged a new to me 140 and wouldn’t mind having them.
Was also wondering what your thoughts were on parts from Steiner and if you had any other go to’s for parts.
Thanks so much for the help and for sharing all the awesome work you do with us!
Aaron
Looking good. When you get it done with the 20 inch pads you should take it over by Rick and test it in the swanp.
Best track video on RUclips.
wow that's HAWT!!! Not going to lie though as exciting as it is to see this beautiful machine coming back to life but it's kinda sad. been fun watching this build for 3 or 4 years now and with that brain of yours spilling out knowledge is amazing.
Wow, its a tractor again! Can't believe the amount of work (and knowledge) it takes to rebuild one.
That master pin with the plugs is pretty clever
A nice place to get fingers pinched if not careful !
Other channels it is mentioned, to have the edges of the grousers 90 degrees, as at the ends of the grousers is where the grip occurs.
Fantastic to see it coming together
Really liking that approach on using the old tracks to break in the machine. Once you have the "swampers" on the machine you should try out those in a swampy area. Not saying drowning the machine but seeing if they perform as good as they are expected to perform.
Really nice, that master pin design is properly genius, I hope I'll remember that one if I ever need to build something like that myself. Apart from that, I'd be afraid to damage the sprockets with that worn out chain, dunno how bad it actually would be during the run in period though and how much load and stress you actually need to put onto everything for that, I know you said it some.. what feels like half an eternity ago, but I don't remember :)
the 20s make a world of difference my 5u has them on it and it just looks mean
She looks great. The 20's on #1113 will be nothing short of awesome,,,,
This thing is really taking shape! Great work!!!
Great to see 5J1113 back on track
save that track chain though even when worn out......standing on edge they make terrific looking flower planters.........
I'm in trouble, dinner's going to be late again. Still, worth it to see the great progress.
Patience my man, patience. You know the line, good things come to those who wait. :))
damn got up to this video waiting and it didnt disapoint. 20" pads squirrel moment was awsome
Well done, Yes, the 20" pads are monsters in comparison, The CAT Term, is the exact TERM, all aircraft manuals use regarding BUCKING, Rivets, in sheet metal aircraft skins, kind of cool, I wonder how far it goes back, and who started saying it first, Cat or someone in aerospace or automotive engineering.
Looking forward to your video on why track chains can't be reversed! Interesting stuff!
Gettin the wheels on is always a watershed moment.
Squatch I noticed that various bits of text on your track chain wear gage state "recondition" at the wear limit marks indicating that repairing wear at that magnitude is not only feasible but presumably recommended.
Given that new chains are no longer obtainable and therefore increasingly rare and presumably valuable, do you intend to recondition that chain with 12" plates which is worn to the limits and how would you do so?
As a side note I hope will interest you I mined opal for a few years in the Australian Outback from the late 1990's to early in this century and some of the outfits working large open cut operations used old Cat D9's for most of the grunt work.
I estimate there were at least ten of the old Cat's working on the fields back then and the things I saw one of the top operators do with his machine were amazing as was the magnitude to which the ground vibrated under my feet as a D9 walked and worked close by.
During that time I became acquainted with a local fabricating welder/engineer who provided maintenance services for the mining machinery.
He had created a custom built 'Rube Goldberg' gadget a bit like a plasma profile cutting table works but for automated replacement of eroded metal and hard facing track chain links and grouser plates instead of cutting it.
His machine used a Mig welder to replace metal on worn links much like modern 3D printing is now performed using metal deposition.
Seems to me that something like that would be of great and ever increasing value to many owners of old tracked Cat machines now and into the future.
I am also curious as to how reconditioning used to be performed back when those old machines were still relatively young and hope maybe you could do a feature on that sort of stuff?
Several tired old D9's just sat around idle for years on a gem field further south because their owners could no longer afford the cost of operating them or pay to have them relocated and they were still there when I left the region.
I have a buddy who is still mining up there and if I ever visit I will try to get some images for you.
It appears to me as if he has done this once or twice...;-). Enjoyed watching.
It's just such compulsive viewing. Can't wait for the next one!! Martin.
That little devil is a handsome little fella wet film to protect the remaining paint
Awesome video it's nice to see the cat sitting back on its own tracks again. The wide swamper pads will be a nice addition once every thing is dialed in. Did cat ever make like a half link for the chains or is that when you fire up the welder and build up the rails my old neighbor guy had a D8 46h and the tracks got loose so he made a plank floor on top of the concrete floor and drove it in his shop and opened up the tracks and welded all winter on the rails and put new grouser bars on it sure tightened the tracks up
I hope there are engined drawings for the tracks and its parts so in the future if its needed they can be replicated.
very cool ninja boy!
Good job as usual !! You didn't show the assembly of the washers with the master pin. which can be problematic. A loyal subscriber.
5/8 bolt ? Rick Bork has you beat, LOL
Hard to believe this has been 3 years in the making! Is there any possibility of 1113 pulling a plow this summer, or am I being too ambitious?