Back a few Moons ago we use to play with them TONKA TOYS . From the D 4 on up to the D9 along with the I H line up from the T D 9 up to the T D 25 and the Alliey Cat line up from the H D 6 up to the H D 21 . Then came the spring of 63 and a new Tonka toy arrived , it arrived just as we sat down for lunch , everyday a train came by the shop on it's run to the south with box cars flats and empty coal cars . some days it would stop and break up the train and drop off cars for the several MFG. companys and the Lumber yard and the two feed mills . It had to stop before it crossed the main highway and the conductor and brakeman would set flares out and stop traffic since this was a spur line . As it came by the shop setting on one of the flat cars wasa Brand new D 9 G much larger then the D 9's we had and the one guy setting with us said i wonder what IDIOT would buy something that big , I said well maybe it is going down to one of the Strip mines south of us . The train crept on by up the slight grade and up over the top and we heard it stop . Ya could here them breaking the train up and unhooking cars and making switches . Then came the look on everyones face as they shoved the flat car with the New D 9 G into our siding . Next thing we know the owner of the company comes flying in and slide to a stop jumps out of his pick up and start barking orders , John you do this Willis you do this Jesse you go get this and tells me to help John and OH By the way that is your new dozer i have 9 more just like it coming so best learn how to run that . The first power shift and many more to come as we were gearing up for the next big push in hyway building . She was shipped in DRY ,no fluids in it at all even the batterys were dry as this was another first for the company a Direct start no pony motor and Oh it had a Cab with no less then A/C and a heater along with a hyd blade with tilt and a ripper , No more cable rippers . Then here come three Cat service trucks to get this ready to run , they had to set the cab and make all the hook ups install the blade after they got it put together and same for the ripper All that was put on once it was on the ground I run it off the flat car under the guidance of the one Cat Mechanic and felt vary uncomfortable with this POWER SHIFT and the Declarator after being use to either a hand clutch or foot clutch and a gas PEDAL . Took a few days to get the hang of it and had the paint wore off the blade getting the feel of it , Cat came back about four days maybe five and Old Al put the TWEAK to it that by todays standards did not fall under EPA guide lines and when you took your foot off the WHOA pedal she would roll a huge plume of coal and plum roll dirt and do it in second gear . Put her behind a 641 Scraper and it was nothing to take a two foot cut and have it heaped in a 100 feet and get him moving by pulling her back into third on the push out . Once the push block broke contact with the blade stop down on the Whoa pedal and a flick of the wrist and you were headed back a light tap on the Whoa pedal and another flick of the wrist you were in third reverse . No stopping and changing gears for a fast reverse then change again for the push and feathering the hand clutch to make contact with the pan for the push . She weighed in just under a 100000 lbs fully dressed.
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