After-Hours In The Shop #2: Mail Call - The Full Story Of My Cat Ten - Why Tumblebug & Not Dozer???

[@clydebalcom8252]

Anyone who will stop to say hello to a porcupine is a good person.

[@paststeve1]

Happy Fathers Day to you, your Dad and anybody else out there today!

[@lukestrasser]

Your ability to "scrounge some spare rocks" while 150 feet from a century old rock pile and slight jabs at paint weren't lost on me... I'm certain your dad misses his father today, but is proud to be a father himself. Happy Fathers Day to him. I know Rick has said you've been really dry up there, hopefully your swamp watering system for the garden is working well.

[@jbj27406]

If I were going to have chosen a different one of your machines to have done this last tumble bug job, I think it would have been the motor grader. (I know it's not running right now). A dozer is too aggressive for the fine work that the tumble bug can do, plus the tumble bug transports material, and you can cut and fill, and not just push. I love a motor grader. We had a Cat 12D or E (if I remember correctly) at Lambeth Construction Company where I drove a tandem dump truck during college summers for a few years in the late sixties/early seventies. We roughed in roads and streets and large building sites. Then Thompson-Arthur would come in and fine grade, put down and roll stone, and pave and curb and gutter. Occasionally, I would get to run a few other pieces a little bit, but they mostly were the domain of the primary operators, and we respected those guys. We had two D7's, the motor grader, a 977 track loader (a beast), a Gradall, and several other smaller pieces of equipment. Infrequently, we would have a couple of articulated pan scrapers that would come from somewhere. The old fellow who ran the Gradall could comb your hair with it, and the other Caterpillar guys were really good too, but the gentleman who ran the motor grader was kind of the default king of the crew. We took care of our equipment, we called the owners and the superintendents Mr. such and such, and everybody did their job. And we all had a great time. Everybody acted like they had some damn sense and we were relaxed, productive and safe. That was kind of a magic moment in life when I think back about it. I'm very grateful for that experience. Thank you and Senior for all your work. Come to think of it, the owner's had their father's old original D4 displayed at the company entrance with a clean paint job on it. The machine that started the business.

[@soundadvicesomewhere9027]

Great to find your site! And learn about the old CATs other antique equipment - some knowledge like this is priceless & Thanks for Sharing !!

[@corpnut2906]

I love that ten thank you for the back story on her.

[@alanharney5278]

12:58: "Now I kind of want the tank too". LMAO!

[@thefixerofbrokenstuff]

Yeah I caught that too. Doggone it, now I want a tank too. Heck, who dont want a tank? Commies and men who wear short shorts.....thats who!

[@ramsay19481]

We called the d2 we had at work a bucking horse if it was used to do any kind of dirt work...It was better suited to pushing coal in the bottom of barges on the steel floor.. The d2 was light enough to be lowered and hoisted with the crane we had attached to a clamshell bucket....That was forty years ago .. Cheers; Mike in Louisiana

[@tractorhyatt7044]

Another after hours in the shop edition. Thanks for sharing this with us. 🇺🇸🚜👍

[@robertinscoe2379]

More information on the litte Ten, love it. That little Ten has a special place in my heart as a man i knew in Miami had a photo of him as a young man in leaning on the track. Picture was taken in Cuba ,that one and some others and the clothes on his back were all he escaped with. His whole family were jailed and he never heard from them again.

[@christophereaves862]

That spot would be a great spot for a pond

[@snocrushr]

Cool Bucryus Erie name plates. I worked on Bucryus cable tool well drilling machines for many years. I snagged the plates off the Bucyrus Armstrong W-29 drilling machine when it went for scrap. Hanging in my shop now. 🇨🇦

[@rdaw33]

Love your attention to detail!!!....The all American way is to have at least three times the projects than you can do in your life!! When I was young on the farm, there was an old piece of equipment behind the shop that as I remember looked like the Tumblebug. I don't remember my dad using it. Love the video of you working old equipment the way is was meant to be used.....Thanks!!!!

[@johnwudarcki9315]

Worn out undercarriage made me think about working for my uncle. We did pins and bushings on the tracks. He took and hard face welded the rollers for days. I beat the pins and bushings out with a 20lb sledgehammer. That took me 4-5 half days after school.

[@greenmule4634]

thats ok talk and tell us all you want, the longer the video the better,enjoy all of them, thanks Squatch

[@mitchellnoll7402]

I have heard that comment before about how much you can move with a Tumble Bug thanks for the explanation makes more sense to me now

[@challengerhitchman]

I was going to compliment you for using the swing drawbar feature last week. To many farmers today don't understand that feature on new tractors.

[@Fatamus]

Happy Fathers Day to you and Senior.

[@Denis-tu1pd]

On the draw bar show the rd6 pulling that huge stump and with the fixed draw bar .

[@shaneharrison4775]

Oh crap you got my eyes both twitching like mad but I never knew that the cat 10 was a auto patrol track grader with the rear start drive very cool

[@kiiiisu]

i got so many answers i didnt even ask lol good stuff!

[@patzke]

Love watching videos when you answer the “why” questions.

[@joekahno]

I spent some time as a mechanic for a small excavating outfit. They didn't have a lot of equipment but did have a selection and a boss who was a stickler about choosing the best tool for the job whenever possible.

[@colin8532]

Love these videos when you talk about all this stuff. You may think you're going on and on, but the information you share is wonderful. You'd make an excellent teacher. That Cat ten would be awesome in your fleet if it still had the grader attachment, still pretty cool though.

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[@shifty4277]

I don’t mind the longer videos!! Always a pleasure squatch!

[@michaelmcclure8673]

Back in the mid 2000 I moved a complete ring gear ⚙ from Bucyrus Erie . The machine being built was a drag line for a stip coal operation. It took me 4 loads to move it. I guess now its Caterpillar surface mining. You would've love the big machines in the building 🤣.

[@thinman8621]

Having at least one tank . . . Yes!

[@Grandpa82547]

Being on a "vintage" thermometer, that would be degrees "Centigrade". That is what it was called when I went to school, and I'm pretty "vintage".

[@regsparkes6507]

Lot's of good history and interesting stories on that Ten. Those prices though were just as difficult to reach as prices are today, I think. Just for kicks, I looked it up on Google, and one dollar in 1930 is worth about $15.35 today,..so think on that! LOL

[@raycollington4310]

We had Ruston-Bucyrus in UK which was formed in 1930 jointly owned by Ruston & Hornsby in UK and Bucyrus-Erie of Ohio. Fantastic range of draglines (RB22 & RB38 etc) I recall they were not easy to master!

[@rays2877]

Quite an education on dirt moving. Thanks

[@jtthill5475]

Happy Fathers Day. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@waltermattson5566]

That was another fun video. It would be interesting to know where each of your machine came from and the jobs they used to do and how long you have had them.

[@landerson1012]

Informative video. Thanks for the run down. Glad to see that you were able to scrounge around for some rare to find rocks for the ripple dams. Here in the southwest corner of the state, rocks are subject to field rollers. Good way to control water erosion. The local river has them put in when the dam was removed.

[@m38_depotharold12]

Twenty mins is good!! Loved the video!!

[@tomr3074]

This channel makes me want a dozer soo bad!!!!!! For logging and general tearing up stuff.

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Hard to believe that there was a grader on the 10 very cool video...👍👍

[@scrotiemcboogerballs1981]

You made me so happy to hear you are going to redo the ten that means you are going to put out more vids yes yes I love it you and your father are great people and I love everything you guys are doing take care buddy I can't wait for the next video god bless you

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

Good discussion about how you got it done. I did realize how effective that swing hitch was when pulling an implement. Thanks for sharing....

[@gregoryschmitz2131]

Love it, I live in Alaska, that is too cool. I love the After Hours in the Shop, lots of great explanations and information. And no apologies for going on, we have the tools to skip but rarely do I, its interesting and finding out things I never knew.

[@johnrhodes474]

In your best Christopher Walken voice more Tumble Bug!!!

[@RomeKG471]

The early D2's were not good dozer tractors because the track frames were short, in 1954 an improved D2 came out with longer track frames and a longer clutch housing lengthening the tractor and making it more stable.

[@kiiiisu]

but now i want the tank too hahah, man cant ever have enought toys

[@johnpreisler6713]

I had never heard of Bucyrus/Erie making anything other than large equipment like drag lines and railroad wrecking cranes

[@antoniolepore6875]

Nice story on the little Ten. Sandblast grit does get every where, when I restored my Farmall 504 i took a full day to protect all the seals with mastic and duct tape.

[@motorv8N]

Thanks for these great insights on how all this machinery actually performs in the real world. Want to look into a small-ish dozer/crawler for pushing snow down a back country lane a half mile or so to the road. Wondered how a Cat Ten or Fifteen might fare for that. I have a '52 Ferguson TEA20 (think Ford 8N clone with overhead valves...) but the open diff just won't pull a rear mounted blower through much even with weights and chains. Plus, heck - little dozers just look like a ton o fun. 😎

[@bobuk5722]

Hi Squatch. Nicely presented history of the 'Ten' supported by good cut in edits. It all takes time, I know, so thank you! BobUK.

[@marks8068]

Will you ever get to the grader project? I think you should.. it would make the endresult of your earthworks look so much nicer I think.

[@michaelwest4325]

Just a quick thank you for all the information and effort to share. I dream of getting a small dozer and know of one that is really just a lump of rusted metal, likely never in my future but I can watch and enjoy the process. Thank you again. And I do not like to paint.

[@Fatamus]

Great info on the 10, it is a cute lil thing, I say lil cuz I'm 6'4" and mumble and a half pounds (lost 80lbs) and can't even fit in a bobcat and close the start bar so I need at least a 955 LOL. Met a guy locally that has a Twenty Two for sale and it is too small for me as well. I have a post on ACMOC if anyone is interested. You are welcome for the Bucyrus Erie porcelain emblem but you didn't explain why I gave the it to you .... because you humbly give out valuable information to those of us in need. I've just started working on my old Cat's (comparatively) and the information saves me time and hundreds of dollars to date, and counting - you have more than earned the porcelain emblem .

[@danielbutler3673]

Looking forward to you building the starting engine for 1113. Still hope you will combine the engine off your grandpa's D2 with 1113's parts. I think that would be fitting to keep another part of your grandpa's tractor going.

[@therealblue42]

There’s a documentary about a unit of army African Americans (preintegration) using heavy equipment to build roads and railroads in Alaska during WW2. You got some history there.

[@anonymousgeorge4321]

Great video. Thanks, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@michaelscriffiano8765]

Thank you sir for another interesting video....

[@bobprice3122]

Well done again ,at least you will not run out of projects happy Father’s Day to you both

[@BobPegram]

Thanks Squatch253, I always like to learn stuff like this and you present it well. In between everything else, get some good grub and your much needed rest!

[@nielmadsen9806]

Great video you know the little inns and outs that you know in the history is priceless and thank you for answering my question I asked a couple weeks ago

[@evankibbe590]

Cool beans. A good video. Always get excited when I see you have a new video. And i have yet to see a bad one 💝😊😊😊👍🍵☕🍵☕🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@dustinmcintosh6799]

As the years go by watching youtube I will generally change channels (like tv i guess). But ive got to tell you that youve kept my interest for a record several years now. I find myself counting the days until your next vid. Keep it up.

[@bobpaterson1845]

Hate that sandblastin grit 😡 that was a really enjoyable informative video again ty 👍👍

[@tjcleave2646]

that's interesting, very cool - too bad the grader is gone.. dang eh

[@machinistbytrade]

Stay safe Squatch..don't go into the city ....some nasty stuff goin on !

[@cyrilhudak4568]

Thanks, I was wondering about why you didn't use the dozer to grade. Also, we now know why Lineshaft Restorations trashed the PTO on his D2. Drawbar was pinned.

[@kevinyork1326]

My farther bought a cat R D 4. In the 1970s and that too was really pathetic about dosing any thing with that. The blade was to big for it and it had a hard enough time pushing snow. The hydraulics were to slow and it was built the same way as the D 2. I was just in my teens and I could see that a John deer dozer 450 was more proficient that was built in the 70s I know why you used your tractor and tumble bug. You would still be pushing dirt right now to catch up with your tumble bug and tractor.

[@martinagoetz8485]

Worked for bucyrus Erie for 10 years. Made big stuff.pne draglinev220 yard bucket

[@steveschumacher5470]

I have a set of those tags on a bucyrus erie tracked well drill

[@garyfeltus9801]

Very very informative video. There is so much to learn from your videos. Thanks for sharing Al that information.

[@bigredgreg1]

Great content!

[@thomaslemay8817]

Now you've done it you're exposing all the secrets that those of us who actually read manuals or privy to cut it out you're going to make the other people look almost as good.

[@whathobogrohknows]

Your ten sounds just like my grader my grader wasn’t sandblasted or pressure washed and then painted with a brush and only one coat

[@hfdzl]

What all did you do to the 'Iron Mistress'? Keep up the good work, enjoy all you vids and can't wait for the next one. HFDZL

[@deanehill9730]

Thanks.

[@apatchofheavenfarm2814]

I might have to try the swinging drawbar

[@michellehoefer5922]

Thank you for the video.

[@bcbloc02]

If only old equipment could talk!

[@TheGrumpyFarmer]

Ha!!! “Spare rocks” well well if you happen to ever need more “spare rocks” just let me know I have more than enough I could give you I’d even let you come pick some 😂 The only thing your after hours in the shop lacked was a beer in your hand and the Borkster 🤦‍♂️😂🍺

[@donbullock8790]

Hello; I totally enjoy your channel. I am amazed by your intricate overhaul of the 'X231' project. What's going on with that? Anything new?

[@1crazynordlander]

Thanks for sharing!

[@davewilliams6172]

Good session man, thank you.

[@geoffweinstock6846]

Enjoyed additional history on the Cat Ten. On a side note, are any of your three No.9 Auto Patrols (8A331, 8A340, 8A539) diesel powered? If so, which one(s)?

[@triptisrinivasjanardan3929]

Geoff Weinstock we'll we wait and see if Squatch replies. In the meantime, of his Auto Patrol number 9 lineup, the latest one he hauled home was a rat rod repower with a Chevy truck engine that was missing before he bought it. Of the two other ones, he removed the engine out of one already so not sure about that and the third one. Other than the Auto patrols however, he does have a caterpillar 212 grader that has the same diesel engine as the D2, the D3400 engine.

[@whathobogrohknows]

You should talk to one u I f the cat dealers by me they have the right grader that would attach to that I believe

[@keithgoenner1124]

Like your channel

[@scruffy6151]

👍👍

[@paulpochan9631]

Squatch....I was driving by an old equipment salvage yard and spotted an old dozer along the fence complete with blade and canopy. It's painted a lighter green(not quite Forrest Service green). Would like to ID, but it's not in a real convenient place to eyeball. Any ideas?

[@paulpochan9631]

@@squatch253 Thanks for response. Next time by there I'll try and get a few pix. Might be able to see so ID if I get close. I agree with the cheap paint idea.

[@roberth5404]

Hey Squatch, what does that funny looking vice grip do? The one that is located on the lower left of you peg board? Thanks!

[@ericcorse]

Looks like a drill press hold down.

[@notajp]

Yep! I actually have a couple of those. You can get them at your local Hazard Fraught....

[@ron827]

What is the significance of the number 253?

[@ron827]

@@squatch253 Many thanks for the explanation and what a rare M-M which I hope to see as a local MN show someday. Probably not this year.

[@OC3OliverFan]

I do have a sign I would love to give it to you

[@WasserSquatch]

Hey Squatch when exactly do you sleep?

[@scottfabel7492]

Silly question: Where did you get the name Squatch253 from?

[@charlesdarby9142]

Where's the links you stated today's video and Happy Father's day 😁 by the way

[@charlesdarby9142]

@@squatch253 Android format smartphone have no personal computer

[@therealblue42]

I thought that sign said bi-curious at first😂.

[@Firegod1234]

Do you have a address we can send mail to?

[@NEAFarmKid4010]

One question I have for you (and you may not actually have an answer for this yet lol), but do you know what tractor project you'd like to work on after 5J1113?

[@NEAFarmKid4010]

@@mmm365 That's true, I guess I meant after 1113 and X231 lol

[@junior1138]

Don’t paint the Sasquatch: it’ll rust into the colour I expect the Sasquatch actually is. Assuming it’s real.

[@LeonardAngussmith]

Scrounge some spare rocks , now here would you find them , hahah

[@d4v3tm]

what about the D6? is that still too small ?

[@d4v3tm]

​@@squatch253 have you considered getting one?

[@easternlandclearing10]

You need an ole traxcavator.

[@thefixerofbrokenstuff]

Land! You need to find yourself an old rock crusher. You all boys have enough rocks in the piles to gravel the roads for 20 years.