Posted by the tractor vet on October 22, 2021 at 08:49:18 from (108.220.145.239):
In Reply to: Road Building posted by rusty6 on October 21, 2021 at 23:28:08:
Ah the IDIOT WAGONS , one has never lived till ya run one of them . I have run a few . Ran at the time the biggest Cat made for two weeks 641 double bowls pushed by two D 9 G's hooked together with one operator and some of the smaller ones like the 613 and 618 self loading and pusher load . Not to bad as long as the haul road is kept up but when it is not you get beat up pretty bad . on a big job it is all about yardage and keeping it on the floor load as fast as ya can and go . Come into the cut flat out running open the apron and sink the bowl into the ground and start down shifting , the push tractor should be on you before you spin out and when you full he should be helping you get moving as he should be up in second before the two of you break contact , that was with powershift trans. . On the OLD ones with manual trans missions on the pans you had to be up on non scyro double clutchen . Then ya had the Le Turno's(sp) never could keep the spelling right on that brand , hey were a standard transmission five speed with ELECTRIC steering and bowl operation powered by Detroits same as the Eculids but the eculid's were hyd steer and bowl operation ( never ran a Eculid , A/C made them International made them . The company i worked for had all flavors . One said when he was young you could hear them running a long way off , Ah yep ya could as back then they did not run mufflers. The Le turno's (sp) we had went one step above on loudness . The D pulls were powered by 4-71's on the four we had they changed the exhust manifolds to two 2-71 manifolds with dual 4 inch straight pipes and on the bigger C pulls they were org. powered by a 6-71 with two valve heads buy the four we had had been tweaked a bit with the 4 valve heads N71 Brown tag injectors and overdriven blowers and 3 3-71 exhaust manifolds and three straight pipes and we referred to them as the ORGANS THEY WERE LOUD . on them you did have to keep them flat on the floor to keep the volts and amps up for the steering as the generator was hooked directly to the engine then the second flywheel was hooked to it then the clutch then the transmission and that was a Clark five speed so you could shove the clutch down to keep the RPM's up . You steered with a toggle switch between your two fingers of the left hand while holding onto the CHICKEN BAR and you ran the pan with the three switches on the right while holding on to the CHICKEN BAR . No fancy seat to set on just a big soft mushroom style cushion bucket seat , no ROPS , no seat belt no wind shield and some times no brakes when it threw the air compressor belts and you could not hear the air buzzer over the engine . That is when you used the emergency brake ------- Drop the bowl.
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