No Hydraulics Track Loader

Early Trackson T7 Traxcavator tracked loader with no hydraulics based on a Cat D7. Seen here at Russell Saywell;s working day

[@brandonpryormusic]

There’s nothing cooler than old iron still working.

[@woos31]

Now that is operating!! What a neat machine, and I love seeing the men that made them tick..............mad respect for those skills!

[@shandfan]

CAT still delivered such loaders as late as end 50s.This cabled system was called "TRACKSON".Equipped with a cabin and in the yellow Cat colour.Were big size machines. Have been searching high and low for an image,like this one!!!! So...my great thanks for posting!!!! At last!!!!!!

[@michaelcarlisle5403]

Look at the operators forward view. A narrow slit and a grill. Amazing to see the skill

[@semiproactive9625]

I love where he has to drag the bucket to return it to the loading position while backing up.

[@vincentchaza8111]

Takes skill man!

[@bomfehpaul9293]

U can imagine how powerful this machine seemed to be in it's erra😄

[@zzzoo2]

My Grandpap had one like that. I remember climbing on it when I was young. We have a pic or two of my Dad driving it. They had property with small coal mines and they built houses. Something like that came in handy in the Appalachian hills...

[@lahraydiabdlah2011]

ne lRestriction rue 8ème de ce soir je suis pas

[@bp_hunter7973]

This is why u always listen or pay attention to the old timers every chance u get while on the job site...there's a reason they make it look easy

[@jasonvandervalk3679]

Old machines always catch my attention because they are simple and still work after all the years

[@teddythomas281]

That 977 is the best sounding machine I have ever heard. Miss those

[@albertogarcia5276]

I have seen many operators that wouldn't be able to do such fine passes with a new brand loader

[@emilyemily4946]

@Emily Emily di Saya yang

[@moacirgarcia3777]

Eu também me enquadro nesta embora as máquinas evoluirão muito tem certos modelos que ficarão muito leves das maquinas novas a CAT que eu trabalho é um 920 K pá carregadeira não dá este acabamento que estes aí Davao por conta do pesso 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍👍

[@msdozer]

I am glad to be your subscriber.Your channel is very satisfying. It is best in presenting Mini/heavy machinery videos, as well as you working hard everyday to provide such amazing videos to us

[@emilyemily4946]

@Emily Emily yang dipilih

[@deborahchesser7375]

New one on me and I love old heavy equipment. The guy knows how to run it too. That’s the cool thing about old trucks and equipment, they can still do just as good of a job if not better in some cases. Maybe not as fast or fuel efficient but they definitely have it in longevity. I need an old Mack with a low boy and a D9G or H

[@superchuck3259]

The key is the skilled operator. I could see that machine making some runways in WW2. Boss says build the runway after dinner, and by sunrise there is a grated flat runway ready for service.

[@deborahchesser7375]

@@superchuck3259 absolutely, those guys wouldn’t stop till it was done 👍🇺🇸

[@donaldstrishock3923]

The hardest part of being a heavey operator now-a-days is climbing aboard and just staying awake. With the air conditioning, enclosed quiet cabs, air ride seats, music tunes, remote camers, 1/2 ounce pressure joy-stick controls, self greasing,and GPS telekenetic grade & location dispatchment, means "anybody " with vidio "gaming " skills can be a Heavy Equipment Operator. Just no "He-Men" left to do REAL WORK-Like it was done 25years earlier ( and a whole lot of it got done before). The "Hero's" of yesteryear are GONE........

[@NixonInDaGhetto]

As a younger guy I am always trying to get close to the old timers and learn their magic while they're still here.. so much wisdom, so much ingenuity that used to be "Common Sense"

[@vincentchaza8111]

You can say that again my man.I m always at great pain to relate that to my children.

[@jakem.6359]

Love old iron. You really can appreciate the skill it takes to run any of this equipment

[@ruston48]

This reminded me how in many vintage photos they wore suits while working and operating machinery

[@billmers3219]

Love that vintage machinery, they run very smoothly Nice job guys! So no power down on the bucket, does that have friction brakes similar to friction brakes on a crane?

[@Joe.M]

Seen one of those back in the mid 60s when I was a kid, but it was even older then the one in the video. Even seen a cable backhoe digging sewer line around the mid 60s, too. Hydraulics were just starting to be used back then.. The old stuff is pretty cool.

[@donaldstrishock3923]

Whoa, 1960's for "cable" backhoe's! Got a whole lot of better story's. It was 1985-2000 & " running grade" in the ditches&cellars in front of the Bucyress-Erie B17 & B22's was " commonplace. Those " Dinosaurs " were " lighting fast" when the clutches disengaged & through the bucket arm out at you some 25-32 feet after they swung around fer another "Big Bite" & they did so quite quietly as was not the case when they were " dragging up the whinches" for another "go-round". Still am surprised the I'm still alive dispite my " lightning-cat-like reflexes" of yester-year;;; and "YES" I WAS THERE!!! Those " Old-Timers" were quite the " Athletes & Magician 's" to Run those "Old Dinosaurs "---; the barely sat on the "seat" jumping around like "pop-corn" flexing & contorting pulling the " leavers & pushing the pedals. I was always amazed & scared to be in the presence of those " Cable-action 1950s style Brute-force Dinosaurs ". Those were the days, and those ( we) were "Real MEN" back then-- Then the " Wimpy " hydraulic Excavators came along after the "Old Timer's" retired.

[@chrspappas3612]

I've never seen this piece of machinery before, pretty cool.

[@rp1645]

Thank you such a beautiful Nice piece of Equipment history. The guy really knows how to operate the Custom Rig. Just think about that first Front End Loader. This guy Rocks.

[@tommitchell8425]

Vintage heavy equipment-is this heaven?

[@bigone4311]

a beautiful old machine

[@danholman5282]

Nice to see a working "Traxcavator" I have one that has been through 2 fires and about 90 winters at 6000' elevation

[@tractorcorleone]

A very cool dozer, I thought this was a scene from a new "Mad Max" movie 💪😄👍

[@shanebassen5963]

This thing looks like some kind of movie prop at first glance I love it

[@robertshoemaker6204]

Way cool my father was a tanker commander for General Patton after the war he drove a belly scraper on a Cat like in the video...on Guma cleaningup the aftermath of the Pacific theater...great to see one in action...thank you Shoe in Oregon

[@The-Warm-voice1359]

This vintage track loader its work without Hydraulic oil i l😍ve everything classic ..such beautiful video thx bud ...Cheers🍺

[@johngnipper8768]

Visibility looks great!

[@theantichrist6524]

I really enjoyed seeing a machine like that.

[@renercadventures]

Awesome video 🤩👍

[@pipeman4707]

Pretty sure you had to be a true operator to do this.

[@user-vw7ur5oo2v]

Трактор гусеник с ковшом техника универсальная ему цены нет.🇧🇾 💯 процентов.

[@rhetoricbytolyan1987]

That is an awesome machine! In what year was it manufactured?

[@pacificosanchez7130]

70 años para ver ese cargador frontal. Me pregunto como sería la visión del operador con todo eso al frente

[@pierre-rose7783]

Never seen a beast like that before.

[@nazzarenoceretti8025]

Bellissimo video 👍👏🙋‍♂️

[@ARENDADROM]

cool track loader!

[@emilyemily4946]

@Emily Emily Paparan

[@brianlaw2962]

I do love and respect the men hoo keep the Old iron running and making them work, that is one I would like to try out.😎😁

[@blessed7fold]

I can't imagine operating a machine like that all day 😪 You know you did something at the end of the day with that thing.

[@19dalton81]

Love that sounds...

[@noahmiller881]

Now that's cool piece of history

[@davidepittiglio8579]

Scary looking bit of gear.

[@reasonablebutcrazy]

That may seem primitive but in 1937, it was revolutionary

[@CC-Equipment]

Good machine

[@lonewolfwildernesssurvival9443]

That thing is badass

[@billoxley5315]

I had one in the D4 size. It was an animal. Worked good.

[@rickbarger7921]

That's a really cool dozer I don't think you could load a truck with it though I don't think it goes high enough

[@JoePitbullkisser]

That design may seem low tech and very cumbersome and inefficient but in its day, it was the latest thing

[@rshutterbug47]

Totally AWESOME, SO COOL

[@MdmehediHasan-ey6ys]

Wounderful

[@adindanoer1]

Amazing

[@eddiedeloy3758]

Holy cow. Lol. How old is that track loader?? I have been in the site development industry my entire life. And I have never seen something like that. That thing is awesome.

[@AlexKhvedor]

WOW! It's cool!

[@joseantoniofajardo1808]

Espectacular

[@russvoight1167]

Being drab green, and due to the fact the Army used D7s, was this an Army application?

[@piotrzietek669]

Widziałem różne ładowarki linowe na podwoziu spycharki,ale ta uważam że jest najlepsza.👍

[@josedelmarmattos182]

Pensei que éra trem de pouso de avião 🤣🤣🤣

[@brantcarnegie6282]

😯😯Those r awesome 🥰👏👏👏reminds🤔 us where and how far were coming from

[@mackfiala3902]

Awesome 👍

[@dirtmover6190]

Guy pretty good on it, must have to put bucket down for bucket to return to dig

[@lenux21]

Wow thats is truely awesome peice of old iron

[@theparasite2084]

Крутая техника , крутые мужики😎😎😎

[@tontobb8956]

How old is this piece of iron. So cool

[@wipahuratapine6603]

It's big and it's purring over solid as a hens teeth.

[@mattberg916]

I'm wondering if the locked angle of the bucket is adjustable to be able to ramp a cut downward?

[@MrSaemichlaus]

It doesn't look like it to me. At 01:40 you see the little locking hook being actuated to release the bucket, I'd be surprised if that mechanism was adjustable with the cable pulling the hook and the bump stop and all. I assume the bucket was given a slightly downward attack angle so that it digs into the ground naturally if lowered all the way.

[@laba11785]

Merci beaucoup pour votre vidéo j'aimerais ces engins de périodes car moi j'étais conducteur d'engins mais à mon époque n'existe pas ces modèles merci d'avance

[@davestinson5691]

That's awesome. However I'd like to see it really get a bite. An can u curl bkt down to make it dig or its just level an that's it?? Very cool ol tractor either way. I understand these guys r there to enjoy themselves an not stress thst old iron. I guess just 30 yrs operating makes me wanna see it grunt

[@PlaneManHehehe]

That's called a track excavator you could use it for digging basements and go vertical right up the wall and dump the dirt

[@martinanthoney6718]

Now that is a "High Lift"....🤔😉😎

[@DOCTORDROTT]

Looks like Russ Saywell

[@AwesomeEarthmovers]

Correct

[@danielfurtado5995]

Boa tarde...os operadores de máquina dessa época eram verdadeiros heróis...

[@Stiks._58.]

А сейчас науме у них только деньги

[@dougferguson5581]

Pretty sure there's a museum interested.

[@Peacheater707]

I would love to own that.

[@pedropaulodiasbulhosa3576]

Muito TopzãO essas máquinas

[@how_to_hallagon1]

I like it 👍

[@matthewmcfarland4934]

I wonder how your supposed to see where with all that mechanicle gizmo etc in front of you. Wouldnt that be blocking alot of the operators vision

[@fedup3582]

Do you suppose the guy pulling the scraper, lost his drawpin? It was almost out at the end there.

[@markusdecimus4732]

How he sees forward?

[@orgmusic.shortvideo]

he has to lean left or right to see ahead clearly. I find it a bit inconvenient, I know the front has enough meshes for the driver to see ahead but it's not very clear.

[@nelsonenriquegarciagarces9767]

asaltaron algún museo??😅😅

[@LoBeau53]

And I thought the hydraulic track loaders were awkward. Buddy know how to get the best out of it though

[@mattmack6258]

Hey Bob how's the visibility ??

[@TrungNguyen-bg8xv]

Nhìn cỗ máy cổ cồng kềnh quá .so với bây giờ nó lạc hậu. Nhưng ngày xưa nó quá đỉnh của đỉnh luôn

[@franciscoassis7387]

Caramba maravilha!

[@TUNG.13]

👍👍👍

[@arnaldocamargo855]

Legal demais

[@jimmychanbers2424]

I was too busy watching the scraper guy jump off that bump.

[@NineCylinderDiesel]

The constant slamming of the bucket has got to be hard on the machine.

[@coochb945]

From memory there was some shock absorption in the housing where the chains attach to the lift arms.

[@tommyw.9424]

Absolutely, these were a really primitive system, worthless compared to what came out 10-15 years later

[@stkrrauch1]

that's so funny looking and they expect you to see what's in front of you

[@johnr5545]

Love it god bless

[@EricTheOld]

Imagine the skill requirements for manually operated controls instead of the electric over hydrolic joystick operations of modern equipment. My hat is off to real operators

[@wilmamcdermott3065]

D7M or 3T

[@rsmith3033]

looks like that sum buck rides like a postage stamp

[@maquinariapesada1000]

Esta maquina viene siendo como un bulldozer de guayas

[@robbyroberto812]

Come fa vedere cosa sta facendo.

[@marcelopessoa8418]

vídeo top 👍👍👍👍👍

[@sidoliparedangedang3685]

Woooww... good..

[@dannyosolo2752]

It's awesome but the operator's view is highly obstructed ...what do u think guys ???

[@user-go5gf7yc6m]

Интересный трактор

[@barrelgardener7527]

You'd have to be tired after a day on this.

[@christopherleblanc9599]

cool first ive seen of that type

[@user-yj7bp9el9c]

Красота.