Caterpillar D2 Pulling Old Tree Stumps

[@andrewwilson8317]

I could listen to that lovely D2 purring away all day. Brings back happy memories of a long hot summer running one.

[@robertestep2094]

Andrew Wilson

[@humancattoy7767]

The Iron Mistress sounds amazing. She's got a good operator to keep her happy.

[@yoimalex]

Years ago I did this kinda work with a dozer. Same basic setup. I did however shorten the cain up considerably so that when pulling it had a tendency to pull the tracks deeper providing higher traction. Looks great with the old D2

[@AD4MRick]

I was a forest ranger in Florida back in the seventies and pulled a fire plow with a D-4. I really liked that tractor. Great video. Thanks for the memories. R

[@ScoutCrafter]

Awesome Job! That Hook is fantastic! The only thing that would make this job easier is a helper who could reposition the hook so you could stay on the D2... Thanks for sharing! 😃👍

[@harveymiller8582]

ScoutCrafte

[@wendellwong4621]

ScoutCrafter all write good job. Cool

[@bobm7275]

A little help from our friends, after you're married it seems no one is ever around.

[@M70ACARRY]

ScoutCrafter or a bigger dozer

[@johnkoopman1433]

Trouble is that when you get your helper, she wants to run the dozer and you're the one stuck reposition the hook all the time. LOL

[@olspanner]

Having done a lot of stump pulling with my vintage Fordson E27N tractor here in OZ, I know how difficult that task can be at times. However it is so much fun and i enjoyed the video for the memories it brought back . Thanks for sharing , just wish i could join in again .

[@leegenix]

My first heavy equipment experience was on a D2 just like the one on the video. I learned how to start it with the Pony motor too. It was an old machine and not maintained well. It was when I worked for a cheap water district in California. The pumps and the motors were so old, they should have been on display in museums.

[@Xynudu]

Great looking D2 and restore job. Handy little crawler. We had an earlier petrol one at work but no blade on it. Cheers Rob

[@richardwilliams6208]

Dad had a D2 on our farm. Learned to operate it at 10 years old. Good times. Learned to not get near the spark plug on the starting engine - had a wicked spark.

[@srdavis37]

that root hook was a great idea. Well done.

[@donaldwallace7934]

That hook works great! Never seen it done like that before.

[@bobdollar8746]

You have just got to love "Big Boy Toys". Great video. Thanks for posting.

[@robertborchert932]

It's always fun to watch the workhorse Cat D2 start and go to work! Nice use of the pony engine too!

[@steveducell2158]

I use to run my dads Case 310 dozer. I like the way you operate yours. Steady and methodical..............and I never heard one gear change "grind" ;-)

[@exilfromsanity]

That's a very nice little Cat and it does a great job on those roots. I'm jealous!

[@brucebello9892]

Love your D2, the first crawler I was ever on was a D2 in 1961

[@TheLittlered1961]

Thank you for the great video. Miss the old cats with the pony motor. My dad had one in the 60's. Have yet to figure out what it was. Think it was a D-4. The kicker is that it had a cast iron grill. Have many fond memories of riding on it with him.

[@kdw75]

I used to have a D4 #7U that I picked up from the Army Corps of Engineers. It was a 1952 model that was in fantastic shape, but I sold it. I regret it now, as it was a lot of fun to play with. It had a ROPS and winch on the back. They had a metal plackard on the side with all the specs. Said it was 16,??? pounds. I just loved the sound of that diesel, and it had lots of torque for a non-turbo engine.

[@jackwagon2380]

If I owned that I would be doing nothing but finding excuses to rip shit out of the ground

[@davidbulik6532]

funnyyyyyyyyyy

[@jmwarden1]

Nice restoration on the D2 Cat

[@MrZipperhead16]

I grew up with an old D2, 5U9553. Sold to a man downstate after my father died who refurbed it. The old man would love that it's still working every day.

[@mr.lambfries3236]

I have always been amazed that something that starts the size of a penny can grow so strong that giant machines struggle to remove it from the ground.

[@quercus4730]

Never knew cat made a D-2 great little workhorse. Good video, Thanks.

[@1crazynordlander]

The Iron Mistress, Ha Ha. Great video. That hook must have some tempering.

[@1941pearl]

Your 1950 Caterpillar D2 is looking real good!

[@brianscott3021]

I find the sound of any old Diesel engine satisfying Much more than new ones

[@williamdawson3353]

That D2 sure looks like fun!

[@johnwells7931]

great video thanks for sharing ! I hope you get a good headache rack installed on the back of that dozer soon !

[@terrykyte1845]

beautiful little machine

[@schneiderexc3557]

Nice looking D2

[@edwardgarea7650]

There is nothing like the sound of a Cat D-2 at work. The greatest small tractor ever built. Caterpillar’s mistake was stopping production on it and the other smaller tractors in the late ‘50s to concentrate on the bigger machines to be used in the mining industry.

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Nice d2 man! Love that series cat! Good job too!

[@lardo1985MN]

NICE OLD D2! That Hook comes in handy. Good ole CAT!

[@SgtBerryhill]

That tractor is awesome!!! I never knew, but should have assumed, that Cat ever built a D-2.

[@tjturn1378]

That's how a startup should be done on a D2... Nice work

[@karlwelin7932]

Growing up on a farm with a lot of creek bottom farm land, by the time I graduated from high school, I put over 1600 hours on a D2.

[@thinkingimpaired5663]

That's a cool sticker on your D2. After watching your video I need to get a root hook

[@scottc977]

Looks like a fun Saturday

[@wildefox1478]

Just stumbled upon your channel and subbed, some great content you have and I love that old Cat D2!

[@KennyKizzleRustyNutzRanch]

Great video, Squatch! Imagine the size of the musky you could reel in with that hook! :-D

[@kevinclark8268]

Dang I would have been more crippled up than I already am getting on and off that Dozer 100 times repositioning that hook! I think I would have just bumped it with that blade about 10 times to pop them out. I'm worn out just watching you! Lol

[@exercisemyrights]

Kevin Clark zactly. didnt wanna scuff the mistress.. but..she is a beaut

[@SKC640]

Ain't that the truth ever see how to sit on an older allis Chalmers(like a 50s model wd)?. I know a couple of old farmers and that's all they used poor old guys could barely walk before they passed, but they would never own a different brand lmao!!

[@michaeldougfir9807]

I have no suggestions; I have no corrections. Thanks for the video. I just enjoyed watching. Thanks.

[@---cr8nw]

Holy cow! There ARE still civilized people! Who knew?

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Just glad you didn't get tapped in the back of the head with that chain. I have a pal that came in a snap of getting killed that way trying to move a 245 with a shot engine. A 980 was behind, then a 7-F, a 6-D and then my pal pulling on a lifting ring on the 6 with a 320. The ring popped off and ended up in the cab with him, chain and all. Broke leg in 2 places plus ribs. Not good but he lived. I just root them out. Get paid by the hour. Sharp little tractor!

[@Pushyhog]

Oh my!!! Fun machine , beautiful noise, helpful around the place. Thanks. Hook works best, then ya dont get stuck with chain in wood.

[@danvannice3241]

I pull stuff with a chain and my TD6 all the time, you obviously know what you’re doing; great video. Hook is a great idea.

[@stevenspaziani9159]

I love you're bulldozer and that hook is totally awesome, I may have to devise one myself.

[@NCF8710]

Just like that! Love the sound of that old diesel!

[@jollyroger3160]

Cool little dozer brother, i enjoyed watching it action. ✌🏻

[@jayhiz3514]

I've never seen stumps come out that quick before.. lol holly cow! Thanks agin

[@kblackav8or]

Pony sure runs nice. Wish mine ran that well. You need a hook tender to run that hook for you. Out west we use "a blade brush" to push out the roots around the sides on stumps too big to just push out. I do like the hook though.

[@jayphillips4058]

Great old Cat - thanks for the vid!

[@atomicshark9466]

Wow ! Great video!

[@daleslover2771]

Excellent video.

[@CaptainEverythingHumorandMore]

Stuff like this is why I would work for free. Love it. Thanks

[@Bigusbackus]

Also imagine how cool it would of been driving this sort of stuff for a job when it was first invented. Bet everyone wanted a machinery job back in the day haha

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

Toby, your having too much fun!!!

[@thyslop1737]

that D2 what a righteous tool

[@semco72057]

That Caterpillar did that job and made it look too easy. That is what I wished to have had 20 years ago to clean up some land around my place.

[@jackrabbit8703]

If that hook were made nowadays it would bend strait on the first pull. The old stuff was meant to last.

[@dundonrl]

Jackrabbit depends on what it's made out of, and the heat treatment.

[@KandiKlover]

Rexford L Exactly, it's harder to get quality these days but a modern steel hook will be way better than this one

[@shortthrow50]

Jackrabbit lmao. Today’s hooks are 10 times stronger you idiot

[@peteb2]

More likely it'd snap in half, the section shackled to the wire rope come wipp'n 'n wizzin right past your head....

[@vincehennigan3036]

Made in the USA. Not China. Every farmer should have an old Cat D2 around. They seldom break down and they work better than most new tractors.

[@Bigusbackus]

At 4:00 could you of wrapped the chain around the tree and hooked it back onto itself or does that just make the chain weaker?

[@VW5767]

Cool video.. tell me about the D2 starting process. I see you started a smaller engine to get the diesel going.

[@rbhe357]

Where does one find a hook like this? I have a handful of 6"-8" diameter stumps that were cut too low to get a good hold onto. Also have some root balls from old brush. Really don't feel like digging all the way underneath them.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

I realize chain might not do as well on the shorter stumps, but when the stump is long enough wouldnt a couple of turns of chain tightened as much possible with a clevis be better than the hit and miss of the hook?

[@scottpecora371]

Had one thought when you were along side that log. I wonder if you had a piece of log that you ran the chain over then down to the stump so now you change the direction of pull upwards and the log rolls along acting almost like a lever . An if the log was oblong instead of round all the better, like a compound bow?

[@garyjonson1872]

4:05 leave the tree taller. wrap a chain near the top. we do it all the time where i work.

[@blowndome]

Beautiful machinery

[@onceANexile]

Nice little d2

[@brainsironically]

This video makes me want to go plant some trees so I can pull em out in a couple decades!

[@brucebaxter6923]

Have you tried wrapping the chain around the stump low down with the hook engaged?

[@suzanne801]

how many levers buttons knobs to turn just to get the thing started

[@ivanboz15]

What an absolute beast 👍

[@english-ash7486]

That is one nifty little dozer.

[@LCHLLO2008]

Wow that thing has loads of pull a.not sure about the hook .i would think a choked chain or strop wrapped near the top would do it and save keep resetting the hook a.any way great vid thanks for posting .lovely machine.

[@JeremyKarst-o2s]

Where did you find the hook? Do you know the name of it? Logging hook? Searching online but I'm striking out. Thanks

[@squatch253]

That was an auction find, looks like it was probably Blacksmithed back in the day - there used to be a lot of old logging camps around this area and you still find things floating around that were from that time 👍

[@mikeschoeffter7420]

Damn, Id love to spend a day at your place.!

[@VicsYard]

Gotta love that old Iron!!!!

[@bill45colt]

the rut hook???

[@TheGoodguy68]

Try boring a hole into the backside top of the stump and running the hook over the top and tip placed in the hole. The added leverage will be a big help.

[@richardpersoage8504]

Always loved the D2. What kind of trailer will carry it? What kind of truck do you have for hauling it?

[@goldrecordsvideos]

Great video - do you think the D2 would be ideal for clearing a large lot of large tree stumps? Or would something larger be better? Thanks!

[@Hbosstowing]

Did you build the blade??

[@robertosteffler1349]

Olá preciso de uma informação de quanto pesa esse trator d2 obrigado

[@tonymessner5371]

Where did you get the hook? That sure beats digging humongous holes with a straight blade and trying to push them out.

[@TheRebelOne.]

The quality of your vt 📹was superb🎬. Your D2 is absolutely stunning and it runs and starts as smooth as a Swiss watch. An absolute credit to you. 👍

[@kblackav8or]

I think I found a hook close to that size. A wrecker hook if you get one of the bigger ones should work about like this.

[@susanparadis285]

nice d2 did you restore it look good

[@exploringabandonedmines]

It is alot more fun pushing them over with a D6!

[@WillBravoNotEvil]

The point is to accomplish within parameters. If you're gonna cheat, c4 or dynamite is much cheaper and WAY better for vlogging than a bigger Cat.

[@markstengel7680]

An oldie but good🚜👍

[@bluesman1063]

Just curious, why the 2' to 4' stumps?

[@dakotak8437]

Do you know if they make winches for d4 6u and where I could find one

[@ToniMattTony]

Man does that thing have power!!!!!!!!!!

[@waterbottle9354]

That was sooo cool plz do another video

[@CTSCAPER]

I need one of those!

[@michaelmcclure8673]

Was that first tree stump a birch ?

[@jaybear1547]

Ammm can you tell me the year of that dozer? I think I have the same dozer but a d4 pilot start and hydroelectric blade except we got it with no pilot motor so we pull start it

[@MrSparkywest]

Just curious why you didn't push them out. I also have a D2 5U-17582. Not as clean as yours, it's still a farm tractor. I push trees out with the blade. Mostly sweet cherry trees (Bings, Vans, and Rainier's). The trees that give me the most trouble are around 60-100 years old with a deep, large root structure. Thanks for sharing your video, I enjoyed it.

[@mog5858]

keep up the good work.

[@merlinjust4753]

I would use the blade and push them, about the time the chain snaps and comes up and hits you, you may want to rethink.

[@ferrallderrall6588]

Merlin Just , know your way around the dozers in the bush do ya?suggest you stick to keyboards merlin ya might hurt yourself or someone else

[@tombrown988]

Merlin Just t

[@tombrown988]

Merlin Just o_O

[@bishop9598]

You are correct Merlin. Very dangerous to pull with a chain, cable, or strap. All you have to do is see one of them fail once and you won't want to ever use one - unless there is no other option. That's what the blade is for . . .

[@maxlown363]

I LOVE that that has a pony

[@dukwcapt]

Love that D2!