Couple of good points. Yes, I got thrown up onto the hood of a Lindeman many, many years ago and I learned that going over center of balance can be dangerous. But we did it dead slow, shortly after the pic was snapped that cable blade was let down to within a few inches of the ground, and when it rocked forward to where the blade hit earth we winched her over the top and headed on down. Really quite smooth but the view up there it terrific!

The air cleaner: That is an old E. Oregon plow puller that was converted to a logger. They put oversize dry filters on a lot of Cats out there for the summer fallow work. The thing is so big they had to get it off the platform. Steering levers hit it.

You know town dwellers in the U.K actually pay to go on "digger days" where they get to drive backhoes loading shovels and other equipmwnt under instruction, its a growing business now I don't know the details but I bet its the thick end of £200 / day

well at least he didn't dig you a new basement when he leveled out the pile, LOL

thansk

I sorta kept him up on the pile and let him tear it down. If he tried to drift it to the new spot he'd have been in subsoil in a second.

When I was in UK I saw one of those yards where people pay to run excavators, big ones. I've no idea how much the fare. I saw pics in the paper of a six-year-old who got an outing there for his birthday. One happy kid!

There's something majic about having that much power at your fingertips. "Amazing!" Mark kept saying.

I bet my insurance carrier in this country would go spastic at the thought of such a venture here. They shudder at the thought of me letting motorcyclists ride on my property. Wonder how many lawyers I could bury with that beast...

Hi Jack,

I know well the changes that fears of suits and lawyers have had on all jobs that used to employ young people. I operated Mack dumps in a developing subsection when I was 14, progressed to backhoes and other small dozers a few years later. Things like that would not be possible today. I still say it's the show of common sense and being cautious that should define an operator and not necessarily their age. The same limitations are in every industry now. Progress Right?.. NOT

I knew that was my home Oregon ,and I`am sure you could move back to JH

some of you may remember me talking about our D7 17A that we bought for the farm, it was rigged up for oil field work, and most of the work we do with it now is winching oil rigs. It is a fine tractor and has made us money. It is a 1960 model, with turbo, dry air filter, power steering, 8 ft Balderson blade, Hyster D7D winch. It is interesting to see just how much they change from year to year as they update their machines. Our tractor had 5600 hours [not the right amount] showing when we bought it, has 17,000 showing now. They are tough old tractors!

Dave Morgan

I sure didn't expect to see this thread start up again. Hello, shocktower. Mollala isn't all that far from here Hope to see you some time.

You are right, dave. Those old cable Cats are a wonderful beast. They do the job. Mine doesn't bankrupt me with dead batteries. There's no hydraulic hose to break (they ain't cheap) and i don't have to explain 20 gallons of hydraulic oil on the ground to the DEQ. Just reliable power, ideal for the occasional user.

Hydraulic excavators have just about put the big Cats out of business around here. There's no more big timber and we got no mines. Road builders use them but that's about it.

Jack