Caterpillar Sixty-Five

[@mikewinkelman7015]

She's a beast sweet machine.

[@hughperkins707]

I can hear you salivating going through this one.

[@teddill4893]

Truly impressive. You really have to respect a machine like that when starting it.

[@jbj27406]

"They left the keys in it". I love that line! I've hand-propped a few airplanes back in the day, but I wouldn't want to have to crank that thing with that bar. The owner made it look pretty easy, but he took his time setting it up. And we even got to see the startup and go for a ride! I kind of hated seeing that magneto key left in it though. Unobtainium is getting more expensive every day.

[@allanrichards3752]

I thought that bar was just to turn the engine to a set position and then maybe start it with a shot gun cartridge or something (like the old Field Marshal tractors). I would think that trying to start it on a cold wet morning after its been sat for a while would be a right PITA.

[@tractorhyatt7044]

Another really neat walk around, Squatch! That 65 is massive compared to the other Caterpillars sitting out with it. Thanks for bringing us these walk arounds, really enjoy watching. See you soon! 🇺🇲🚜👍

[@terrymumford7659]

You've captured the holy trinity of a rare Cat sighting. You did a great walk around, got to see and hear the 65 starting and got video of it on the move. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Amazing!!! Great job Toby.

[@peterhaan9068]

...and he was so out going, eh? Now if I owned that machine you would have to take that bar and 'unstart' me to shut me up!

[@terrymumford7659]

@@peterhaan9068 So true. I would have loved to know any more history or facts on this beautiful piece of Cat history. The bar start is amazing. That would get your heart pumping and your mind focused. The old "make and break", one cylinder fishing boat engines around here would sometimes kickback and run backwards when starting. Maybe someone could find him on a better day and help him give the 65 the place in Cat history it deserves.

[@keithross4511]

Thanks for the walk around of the SixtyFive. What a cool ole Cat tractor. I found a Sixty once in an equipment salvage yard. Wasn’t long and it was gone and I understand went to a Cat dealership in Memphis. Man does that old gal sound healthy and good! Thanks Squatch

[@mikewigim4529]

Thanks for doing the walk around on this Cat 65. I have been going to shows for over 50 years and have never seen a 65.

[@CarCatCol2023]

Jon has some very nice machines. Thanks for sharing

[@thomasgoad3695]

Glad we got to hear it run . It sounds like a Diesel. Like a D 7 E

[@wmwho]

327 cubic inches per cylinder. Wow!

[@dougkubash8673]

What a cool piece!! I was hoping we would get to hear it run! Not only hear it run but seen it in operation!!

[@ironman3406]

Whoa yah!!! That’s a rare bird right there. An old fella once told me they burned somewhere between 5-7 gallons an hour when they were working, not sure how much truth there is to that but it what I was told. I wonder if those two controls on the dash were for choke and the compression valves? This really makes me wanna get our Sixty going!!

[@jonathanstancil8544]

I'm sure 5-7 gallon per hour is plausible. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than that. I have a 400 Farmall tractor that is a 264 c.i.d. 50 horsepower model from 1954 and it burns 5 an hour doing almost anything.

[@clydeschwartz2167]

awesome walk around video that is a really big crawler. The bonus footage was the icing on the cake .

[@theskepticalnegativist1004]

That's one beautiful beast!

[@afmoa]

I could hear the smile on your face as you chased it across the fairgrounds.

[@thinman8621]

The Sixty Five is an awesome machine. Maybe an online ("Toby Rogan") kind of interview with the Sixty Five's owner and we could hear the story behind such a fine example.

[@darploin5071]

At least we going to know what your bumper is going to look like when you're finished with it have an excellent day squash 253

[@johnbellas490]

Hello Squatch253!! Great video! yea that brake pedal placement would screw my head and FEET up too Ha Ha!! Now a word about Eisemann. The Eismann company was also involved in not only gas engine ignition systems but they also made RADIO parts and whole radios back in the day!! I once had a BIG floor standing radio that had the name of FREED EISEMANN MASTERPIECE on it!! Freed Eisemann made other smaller radio's too and I also owned one of them!! I also have a 2 cylinder Fairbanks Morse 2 cycle Marine engine of 12 horsepower! the 2 cylinders cast separately, that has a whole Eisemann ignition system of coil, distributor, wire and spark plugs also!! my old Cat D6 5R had Eisemann too as the mag on the pony engine. I love old tractors too along with antique radios and cars and hit and miss gas engines!! They ALL had their part in history to make this great nation and reflected different aspects in how they contributed to OUR history at different times and places and thoughts of the day!!!! Thanks Squatch 253 and Sr for preserving a part of that time and history!! John Bellas KC2UVN 73's my friend, ah 73 means best wishes and good luck in amateur radio lingo. and KC2UVN is my FCC issued call sign for my station.

[@motominded5275]

that's like a 1300ci 4 cylinder! cool dozer

[@ralf00001]

I really enjoyed watching that 65 drive past 👍

[@davewebb5737]

Man oh man the size of the jugs were massive I bet that engine pulled like a train wow

[@bobpaterson1845]

Excellent walk round as always thank you 👌that is a beautiful machine and was so good to actually see it start run an drive 👍

[@ronchappel4812]

Very cool.Thanks for sharing this with us. That bar start system is terrifying!

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

It definitely looks dangerous and scary!

[@keen0515]

I just saw one of those 65s at the Brooks Oregon Steamup last weekend. Read a bit about the history on 'em. Nice to see another on your channel today.

[@rickyjessome4359]

Man that is such a cool machine!

[@alasdairhamilton1574]

Squatch was the bonus footage of the owner driving it for the last time as he drove it onto your trailer ! 😃👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@rdaw33]

What a cool old monster!!!!!!!!!!..........Thanks for sharing!!!!!!

[@Buck1954]

When you were doing the D2 walk around and I saw that in the back ground, I thought what is that?! Thanks for the tour.

[@shaneharrison4775]

A real beauty

[@mikewinkelman7015]

Music to my ears !

[@joeromanak8797]

When you started talking about this one, you didn’t immediately mention that curved front bumper and I wondered how you could miss the elephant in the room. So many great comments sprang to mind. But then the old Squatch doesn’t overlook anything thing happened and took the wind out of my editorial sails. The pistons for this must look like 1 gallon paint cans so enormous thirst doesn’t surprise me. At today’s prices, they’ll need a home equity loan to participate in plow days. Thanks for showing us! 🥸👍

[@danielbutler578]

With an engine that size you could probably pull enough plows to get the job done in one pass. LOL. Really it would be awesome to see how many bottoms it could pull. Obviously the reason it can be started the way it is has to do with the actual size of the cylinders. It doesn't have to hit hard on its first power stroke because of how much surface the top of the piston has. It reminds me of hand cranking an M. At most you only get half of the compression stroke before you pass the point when the spark plug fires. Usually I could count the first two or three hits before the engine got up enough speed smooth out. To this day I can still hear that sound when I think of that old tractor.

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

So cool!!! It was so oddball looking to the other Cat crawlers. Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing....

[@kevinjohnson5214]

Your the pusher man like the song god damn the pusher man in the 70s your getting us all hooked on old cats pushers non the less soon we will all have the disease that can only be cured by getting a fix of heavy Cat metal ive got early onset symptoms allis and John just don't help me anymore it all starts out innocently but then your hooked Hope your happy mr. Pusher man.

[@reddirtfarm7704]

A guy i worked for bought George Louige's cat 65 at his sale. But he resold it before we brought it home because the whole undercarriage was replaced with a 60..

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Wow! I never seen one of those before!! What a rare machine indeed! Talk about looking like a real bulldozer! Lol 👌😂👍nice! That’s one weird and huge front end!

[@kylechrist]

Thanks for the late upload!

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

First 65 I've saw outright,Top Shelf walk around and video...very unusual design.

[@DrewSawyerMayor]

The beautiful sound when he started it reminded me of my father’s old D7. Serial # started with 3T

[@jondavidmcnabb]

She kinda seems like the old fashioned version of a CAT Hotrod....

[@kraigwolters2601]

That jon is one good looking dude!

[@stxrynn]

I miss those old big jugs and pipey, throaty engines. Nothing sounds like that. Music... sweet music!

[@stearsfamilyfarms6264]

Lots of things that reminds me of my 1925 cat 60. Would be neat to see a 65 in person.

[@dangerrangerlstc]

There's a show near me that usually has a big ol gray Cat Sixty. Don't know what year but it's a monster. They hook it to the sled sometimes and have it just lug down and pull. Its got a belt pulley too and use it to power the saw mill.

[@BikerBloke600]

Absolutely beautiful beast of a machine Squatch, wouldn't like the fuel bill though lol. Mick. 👍🍻

[@darploin5071]

So that's a unicorn caterpillar there wow that's a nice one and it's pretty

[@EdStrong929]

Very nicely done. Thank you for showing it to us and going thru the details. The whole time I kept saying to myself "this one deserves an interview with the owner", but it seems he didn't feel like talking much... Oh well! Thank again tho. Your style is unique and appreciated.

[@billhartl6601]

Agreed, owner didn't seem like he was in a good mood, kind of gruff and abrupt

[@b.abrackus6403]

Great bonus footage 👍

[@daviddziomba9664]

And don't forget the real rare Cat gas 70, and I've only seen one of these, and that was part of the George Logue collection in Pennsylvania just a reminder. Dave D.

[@danelldaniel4966]

You need to get the cat ten out again love the videos

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

Algorithm boost! Something to watch after work!

[@jnieves5023]

Great walk around very impressive info👍

[@michaelscriffiano9267]

Awesome piece of iron...

[@Embarq007]

Excellent

[@gordonmcmillan4709]

That's just lovely, but I think those radiator tubes were clad with individual gills tho' rather than any spiral wound stuff.

[@danelldaniel4966]

You end to get the cat ten out again

[@randallvos]

That gas tank looks to be about the same size as one of the saddle tanks on my semi, and I have 100 gallon tanks on each side.........

[@mandolinman2006]

I'm jealous. We don't have any old Cat iron in my area.

[@halsnyder296]

Says this was posted 5 hours ago! It just now showed up, and I’ve been refreshing about every 1/2 hour…. (Can’t do to much more than house chores and KZbin right now… torn achilles tendon). I wonder why it didn’t show up earlier?? Also, thanks for the walk around!

[@seniorelectrician6831]

Wow! sure looks great!

[@Yellow_iron_and_spanners]

I think for it's time must of been like big d7 or d8 before the d9 10 and d11 came out.

[@owen33333]

Thanks, amazing machine!

[@darploin5071]

How many kids from the 21st century would know how to start such a machine like that I'm pretty sure it's safe there.

[@darploin5071]

@@mmm365 that's about right

[@jamesrobinson1022]

There are some old tractors that you use a rolled up piece of paper and lit on fire then inserted into a slot, you had set the timing and to finally crank it over insert a shotgun shell(just gun powder) and hit the firing pin with a hammer.

[@andrewklahold2880]

Well that looks like the spring set up like on my 57 D8 14A model

[@MrCarl312]

Do you suppose you could ask the owner if you can make a dup of that key?

[@jimplatts6172]

Hi squatch you've probably seen this but just in case. Periscope films Boss of the bulldozer. Cat promotion.

[@Hogger280]

FYI this gas 4 banger has 50 more cu. in. than a D-8

[@Mackeson3]

Gasoline. I shudder to think what that would cost to run these days (Especially in The UK where l am from because fuel prices here are astronomic) Lovely old thing though!

[@regsparkes6507]

Wonderful!

[@evankibbe590]

Very nice machine and it sounds good to 👍😊👍

[@darploin5071]

Yeah cuz I remember the previous generation the whole engine was exposed you had to put prime the heads by putting fuel into them and then set your magnetos but I guess this was the first attempt at trying to make something that looked a little more streamlined in which it does from the previous generation

[@darploin5071]

the tank looks like it's 300 gallons

[@sparky167]

How many gusset’s and brace’s are going on the “1113”?, the whole time I watched the vid- I thought to myself…….this might be your next chase! Great job

[@ramosel]

Was there ever a point where CAT made both gas and diesel models or did one end when the other began?

[@ramosel]

@@mmm365 Thanks m. Just curious.

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

Beast!

[@horatiohornblower868]

This behemoth was built when gas was cheaper than water. No one could afford this machine to put it at work nowadays.

[@fuzzwack1]

Nice Toy!!

[@SuperMAZ007]

The Cat 65 is the for runner for the Cheljabinsk " Stalinetz" S-65. Same concept and old patents as on the CAT. Also starting the CAT 65 and S-65 is the same but it would need lot of practice if you have never dealt with a machine like that. There is also a very cool pickup at 7:11 in the video. I can't tell what it is but it looks cool.

[@bigmike7536]

Late ‘40s early ‘50s International L-110

[@steveschumacher5470]

52 or 53 R-110 international (binder) as I used to call the one I had in high school

[@jordanjudas441]

Couldn't talk johnny into letting you operate that gem????

[@johnquinn3899]

NICE !!

[@danieledwards1081]

What a beast 🤩💪👌

[@danieledwards1081]

1308 cubic inch 4 cylinder... boggles the mind

[@brycewiborg8095]

It started easy enough. I think I have seen that somewhere. Had it been in Albany maybe a decade ago ? Thanks.

[@jamesdiehl8690]

So, the gas models with numbers ended what year and the diesels started what year? I've seen other gas versions on your channel of Holt, Cletrac, etc.., and they were older.

[@jamesdiehl8690]

@@squatch253 Thank you! I wondered why they quit naming them the numbers then went to the D designation, if it was just because they quit making gas ones and started diesels. So they didn't start with a D1, then went up to D11?

[@bradanderson1627]

Wow cool

[@fowletm1992]

Poor visabiltuly all you can see is hood So your saying it's the most modern dozer there Iv only driven 9s and up but yiu really don't ever look straight forward there's nothing to see

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

What a cool beast!!! What are the front rear mini springs for?

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

@@mmm365 Ah yes on the track frames I realise. I meant the two small springs in front and behind the main cross spring. I think he called them compensator springs.

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

@@mmm365 Cool! Thanks!

[@edelm6062]

Would that machine pull 6 or 7 bottom plows?

[@dri50]

Looks like the operator position was slightly offset the the left. I suppose this was to leave more room for the tank. But it probably made visability to the right side even worse.

[@espeescotty]

Hmmm, I just learned something today...I guess I saw and have videos of the very last SIXTY-FIVE, 2D521. I saw it at Vista, California about 5-years ago. I never even knew about the SIXTY-FIVE until I arrived at the show that day and saw that big shiny curved yellow hood. I was thinking, "what the heck is THAT!? 😳" It was immaculately restored. Even nicer, I bet, than the day in '33 that it crawled out of the factory. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmjMe2SrbrqFa9E kzbin.info/www/bejne/l33YZWedntuqeJY

[@wagon9082]

Good video

[@wilmamcdermott3065]

People dont realize that by running tracks that tight they cause excess wear on all track components .plus it eats horse power

[@Pamudder]

Do you know the horsepower and torque specs for the 65 engine? Was this machine about the same size and pulling power as the later RD-6?

[@Pamudder]

Thank you!

[@Pamudder]

@@mmm365 thank you

[@Ekatjam]

Just wondering if you would know. Was the Soviet T-74 tractor a clone of the Cat, or were they entirely different?

[@jamesrobinson1022]

They probably borrowed alot from Cat cause they sold a bunch in the 30s to Russia during the Great Depression.

[@rawbsworld6604]

👍 🤗😁

[@aquilaaudax6033]

✋🏼🇦🇺😊

[@1murder99]

Very interesting machine. But that thing is butt ugly.

[@matkremzar5474]

nice part about youtube ... mention unubtanium and poof it might show up . (sorry not me ) good.luck with that key!