How CATERPILLAR Changed the Course of World War II

[@larryschweitzer4904]

Cat wasn't the leading innovator after WW2, Allis-Chalmers brought out hydraulic machines while Cat was still using a very crude cable system. Cat's dealer network and parts distribution where their main advantages. My Dad had an excavation company started in 1950 with an HD5. By the time I was 15, I was running a (IH) dozer. A big advancement in productivity was the power shift transmissions. LeTourneau was a major innovator. In the late '60s I spent 3 days at the Cat plant in Ill. Half days getting maintenance training and ½ touring the manufacturing facilities. By that point my Dad owned mostly Cat equipment & I was running one branch of the business.

[@stevevanvalkenburg5449]

I'm not sure how Chapter 4 (Cat equipment in enemy hands) had anything to do with Cat. As I recall, every army used captured or recovered equipment and material for their own use. Case in point: the Marines and Navy CB's used abandoned Japanese construction equipment in the early days of the Guadalcanal invasion to complete what would become Henderson Field until their own equipment could be landed.

[@ralfie8801]

General Motors owned EMD until 2005 when it was sold to Greenbriar Equity Group and Berkshire Partners who then sold it to Progress Rail, a Caterpillar subsidiary in 2010. A good 60+ years after what the video eluded to.

[@TimHarris-z5o]

It must be noted that every caterpillar crawler tractor that came off the line in Peoria during ww2 came equipped with a RG Leterneau dozer blade, sheep’s foot packer, crane, power controll unit which functioned the earth scrapers and dumpers that le turneau built in there peroria plant. There were a few years that the two companies worked very closely until the end of the war. A book worth reading is called the Le Terneau Legend. A great read

[@williamdertinger4434]

Love the video

[@DavidSellars-b8l]

I hope your other productions are not as full of holes as this one. R G LeTourneau worked with Caterpillar until after WW2 when LeTourneau decided to produce self-propelled wheel scrapers. Up until then, Cat tractors from East Peoria went by rail to the LeTourneau plant in Peoria to be fitted with blades, cable controls, and possibly LeTourneau pull scrapers. LeTourneau has been credited as producing more construction equipment for the military than any other company. Holt and Best each produced combined harvesters. They each entered the tractor game as a way to move the harvesters and replace mules. Crawlers replaced wheels as a way to keep the heavy machines from sinking into the Sacramento Delta soils. After the formation of Caterpillar, the harvester line was virtually given to John Deere.

[@johnninness7049]

Holt knew nothing about earth moving until RJ lotoni went to the southern end of California to a place called Stockton in the orange belt a very good read about the tornado is mover of men and mountains if you could ever get hold of the book it is a gem of earthmoving throughout America add would leave caterpillar in the dust

[@anthonypalsmeier5881]

Title of video should be "How I lied about Caterpillar "

[@HyperSpaceProphet]

I gotta say, while I liked the vidope and the story, the little animation between chapters became irritating and repetitive.

[@MrOlgrumpy]

Annoying "chapter breaks" I'm gone

[@miketimmerman6819]

Somebody needed to lean the history of Holt, Best, and Caterpillar before they made this video.👎

[@TimBreslain]

Utter junk