Can a Cat RD-6 Pull an 8 Bottom Gang Plow??? Let's See if We Can Beat a 3-Cylinder Torque Monster!!

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[@southernoffroader78]

Why are you still plowing and destroying the soil microbial life???

[@jbj27406]

I'm not a soil geologist, but that looks like mighty good ground to me. And that eight bottom turning it is a thing of beauty. No sweat for the RD-6.

[@parochial2356]

It is such a treat to see all this old iron that was working farms, building highways and clearing land for houses and buildings way back when I was a wee lad - still capable of earning it's way today. This is the just some of the engineering that built America. Bravo!

[@samseale2071]

I have a picture of my dad’s RD 6 hitched to two Oliver sixteen inch four bottom plows. That was a standard load on many Pacific Northwest dry land wheat farms.

[@rogerallen6644]

That startup sequence had Squatch’s eye twitching! 😂😂

[@ironman3406]

I don’t think there is a modern engine you could work down to that slow an rpm while working - gawd them 3 cylinder engines are a thing of beauty - even my eye was twitching with that start up, I tend to go a little quick sometimes but that was some kind of record speed

[@dalelehman5194]

My dad bought a RD6 in 1948 and was the most useless cat made Weighted 12 ton had about 65 H P engine and I seen dad dig a hole to bury a rock pile and had to pop the clutch 3 times to back out of the hole, Sold it in 1955 and got a TD 24 international cat That is a real cat ,I was 17 and wore out 3 sets of rails in my 50 years of farming

[@larrydavidson3402]

What a torque monster that ol cat is.

[@paulsilva3346]

I woulda luved to watch 20-30 more minutes of Plowin standing his furrows behind an RD 6 that RD6 MUSIK...

[@rickyjessome4359]

Squatch that was awesome! The sound of that old monster lugging is amazing. Man that ground looks nice!

[@jimwhite1061]

I wouldn't have believed that. 8 bottoms pulls pretty hard

[@trainnerd3029]

“That’s not how you’re supposed to do it!“….

[@machinist5828]

I was impressed by what I saw in Britain. PTO operated tillers, as in rotary times cutting and turning like you would do on a garden. Except this is full scale and they move faster than we do plowing. Wheat, green beans, sugar beets ( the size of watermelon) and corn. I didn't see a turning plow used once.

[@PEThurman]

That’s quite the machine. Rather funny plowing backwards too! Great video.

[@thinman8621]

Awesome sound of low-end torque from a long stroke diesel.

[@davebeachy6902]

Love that sound! Looked like some of the moldboards needed to be scraped clean to better turn the soil.

[@pinwizz69]

That was awesome.

[@lukestrasser]

It sure was nice to finally see a demonstration of the "hired hand" starting procedure on a pony start Cat diesel. Squatch, you seemed shaken by all of the things going wrong in that start!!!

[@mathuetax]

Heh, I recall doing something rather similar (Just random pulling, we didn't have a garden plough attachment) as a kid in the 1970s with our 7hp lawn tractor, let's see what this Briggs can do. Astounding that I never broke that 1960s Gambles-Skogmo tractor.

[@darploin5071]

So it's a hand crank pony motor just like your d6 was that very common so many people didn't opt for the electrical start on the pony motor. have an excellent weekend