we decided to get 14 items up and running for pictures and film and here is a little video of the details.

thanks

Great to have you both back again.
What a monumental effort you both have put in to get all Cats running up in the Great White North for us to enjoy with you whilst sitting in the comfort of my study--I cannot imagine temps. of -37C----we sometimes get +40C down under here and not much happens then!!

Have been following the Linn and Lombard tractor and sleds threads over on SMOKSTAK, riveting stuff that we only ever saw on Cat and other films down here.

Keep at it Mate and enjoy.
Cheers,
Eddie B.

"edb" wrote:

Great to have you both back again.
What a monumental effort you both have put in to get all Cats running up in the Great White North for us to enjoy with you whilst sitting in the comfort of my study--I cannot imagine temps. of -37C----we sometimes get +40C down under here and not much happens then!!

Have been following the Linn and Lombard tractor and sleds threads over on SMOKSTAK, riveting stuff that we only ever saw on Cat and other films down here.

Keep at it Mate and enjoy.
Cheers,
Eddie B.

thank you, one thing we can not take is the heat, we get 5 hot days a year and they are not together so we take the day off but work at -45c no problems. it was easy to get everything started and running in about an hour. the pictures turned out good because we had the right amount of sun shine.
more to come

thansk

i had a couple of block heaters that were gasoline fired and ran off of the battery. they had a little pump that would circulate the coolant and would heat a 1693 up in about 5 minutes, but not from your temps. i used a set of T's and a short piece of heater hose with a hydraulic quick coupler on them so i could carry the unit for more than one machine.

"bursitis" wrote:

i had a couple of block heaters that were gasoline fired and ran off of the battery. they had a little pump that would circulate the coolant and would heat a 1693 up in about 5 minutes, but not from your temps. i used a set of T's and a short piece of heater hose with a hydraulic quick coupler on them so i could carry the unit for more than one machine.

yes those were popular back in the day.

thansk

Hi, KoO.
Good effort. That's quite the line-up you have there and all running. Thanks for sharing.

How many more 'skeletons' do you have in your icebox just waiting for some TLC to get them running again?

The TD18s were quite popular with at least one state government department here in DowNunda back in the late 1940s, the '50s and the early '60s for road works, land development projects. Quite a few private contractors also chose them, particularly in the agricultural contracting field, as a cheaper alternative to Cat D7s. That all went by the way when parts and service for them started being made of Unobtainium and Komatsu dozers also started appearing about then too. I started operating for a living full time in February, 1965 and I still have never operated a TD18. They disappeared that quickly.

There is also still at least one Linn tractor running DowNunda. It makes fairly regular appearances at various local vintage shows around where I live.

Just my 0.02.

King,
which ones start better in the coldest weather. The yellow ones, the red ones or the Linn? Not counting Lavern.

thanks,
Jim

"Deas wrote:

Hi, KoO.
Good effort. That's quite the line-up you have there and all running. Thanks for sharing.

How many more 'skeletons' do you have in your icebox just waiting for some TLC to get them running again?

The TD18s were quite popular with at least one state government department here in DowNunda back in the late 1940s, the '50s and the early '60s for road works, land development projects. Quite a few private contractors also chose them, particularly in the agricultural contracting field, as a cheaper alternative to Cat D7s. That all went by the way when parts and service for them started being made of Unobtainium and Komatsu dozers also started appearing about then too. I started operating for a living full time in February, 1965 and I still have never operated a TD18. They disappeared that quickly.

There is also still at least one Linn tractor running DowNunda. It makes fairly regular appearances at various local vintage shows around where I live.

Just my 0.02.

there will be 20 cats in the King's collection when all is said and done. these cats are based on the winter freighting cats of the north since that is where I live. yes the down under linn tractor is well known.

thansk

"D4Jim" wrote:

King,
which ones start better in the coldest weather. The yellow ones, the red ones or the Linn? Not counting Lavern.

thanks,
Jim

all the equipment in the Kingdom has been highly modified for the cold weather up here at the end of the world. we got 14 items up and running at -19c in an hour which is about normal with no booster cables. but that these cats down to Kansas for a fun day in the dirt with the hot heat they would not last long. they would over heat just like me, lol.

thansk