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Why Cat crawlers???

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Brian Schmidt

01-18-2000 21:18:16




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I was at a plowing bee quite a few years back on land my grandfather used to farm. This is very sandy soil. Pure sand. Every year all the local farmers would bring their 10-30 HP antique tractors out with their two or three bottom plows and work up the ground. However this year was going to be different. There was a Cat ten there. He has a six bottom plow. These guys were all upset because he was “plowing up all our ground”. He did the same work they did. He would make his pass through the field then go and get a coffee while these guys caught up. They were working their tractors to the max to try and keep up. I thought this was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I later found out my grandfather used to farm the land with an old Cat ten too. I never knew my grandfather, but that day I felt like I did.

When I went to work at Cat in East Peoria, I always loved the walk in in the morning and still do. The guys were test running the tractors over the concrete lot behind the factory. That sound is like music to my ears. Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Ehhhhh e. You could hear it for a couple miles when the wind was still and everything was quite around. I could have listened to that for hours.

When operating one of those BIG machines, you can literally move the world. What a rush. I know one day I will have to have my own heavy iron machine.

That’s my story. What got you folks into crawlers?

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Ludwig

01-19-2000 12:40:34




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 Re: Why Cat crawlers??? in reply to Brian Schmidt, 01-18-2000 21:18:16  
My Dad is a Civil Engineer and so I've always been around construction equipment. Sometimes when times were tough Dad would take me with him on jobs while my mother worked. Lots of times it would be tough for him to try and get his job done with me around, but the toughest construction workers get real soft with a kid around. So I rode on many a machine as a child.
I too really love the feeling of pushing a big blade of something around, feeling the power, smelling the smoke. A grin so big it'll about take my face off... :)

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Terrence O'Brien

01-20-2000 08:07:43




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 Re: Re: Why Cat crawlers??? in reply to Ludwig, 01-19-2000 12:40:34  
Well,my story,for what its worth goes like this(readers digest version)!I'm a third generation Operating Engineer-which means I'm a union heavy equip.operator.As far back as Ican remember,operating-not driving as some people call it-is all I ever wanted to do.My Grandfather was a crane operator& shovel operator in 20's & 30's and in turn brought my Dad into the trade.My Dad also was a crane operator,but he went on to learn how to move dirt,too.He was a helluva 'hoe man and could run most everything.Of course,that rubbed off on three out of four sons.He put me on a 1963 Fordson SuperMajor diesel backhoe when I was 10-forever hooked!! This will be my 14th year in the Operating Engineers,i've run equip from D9's to little John Deere 350's to huge track hoes all the way down to rubber tired hoes.Scrapers,rollers,loaders-I,m never gonna be a millionaire but I;m havin' a lot fun!

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