Back in the late 80s' I worked for a summer at List and Clark, by Pittsburg Ks. It was their repair center..lots of earthmoving equipement in and out for maintenance etc.
I was helping cleanup the back, lining various pieces of machinery up, mowing. The steel sides of an old gravel truck bed were sitting kinda cockeyed on the ground and since the crew was trying to straighten/line up stuff, that old box looked out of place. It wasn't a simple thing to move either...full to the top of old scrap steel "I" beams.
It so happened one of the "D" series caterpillar, I believe an '8' was in the shop for work. The mechanics brought it out one afternoon...all fixed up and was being checked out. It was a huge piece of rumbling power. So I asked him if he thought that beast could move the box of steel over a couple of feet. He laughed when I told him it was pretty well nailed down with all that scrap laying on the ground inside the bedsides.
So, he idles the blade up next to one corner...and I swear, he never throttled up, the engine didn't even hesitate as he slide the whole thing over about 5 feet....hugh gouges where the iron dug into the ground.
Pretty impressive!!
I was helping cleanup the back, lining various pieces of machinery up, mowing. The steel sides of an old gravel truck bed were sitting kinda cockeyed on the ground and since the crew was trying to straighten/line up stuff, that old box looked out of place. It wasn't a simple thing to move either...full to the top of old scrap steel "I" beams.
It so happened one of the "D" series caterpillar, I believe an '8' was in the shop for work. The mechanics brought it out one afternoon...all fixed up and was being checked out. It was a huge piece of rumbling power. So I asked him if he thought that beast could move the box of steel over a couple of feet. He laughed when I told him it was pretty well nailed down with all that scrap laying on the ground inside the bedsides.
So, he idles the blade up next to one corner...and I swear, he never throttled up, the engine didn't even hesitate as he slide the whole thing over about 5 feet....hugh gouges where the iron dug into the ground.
Pretty impressive!!
