"Now, there are Caterpillar nuts---and some even more extreme admirers" Dave Webster tells Biglorryblog....and how right he is. This is fantastic bit of fretwork (sorry handiwork) featureing a linked pair of big Cat dozers. And not being an expert on the subject take it the second one is to provide extra oomph to the one with the blade up front? No doubt my beloved anorak army can provide more details...
Anyroadup as if by some strange turn of fate...and talking of 'wooden wonders'....I have also been sent this Mack Model F in wood from Gary Richards who says: "It's a must-have for thatvery select group of F model owners." Now click through here for more pictures of both including some astonishing detail on the Cat. (And for a pie what aeroplane was called the wooden wonder--and if you're really clever what was the German WWII equivalent? Eh?)
Attention to detail on the tracks and coupling is fantastic...
Wonder what wood they used?
Look at the nuts...
And here's the engine...
A terrific piece of work you'll all agree...
Meanwhile the bloke doing the Mack has set up his own production line!
What incredible models those are; I've never seen anything like them!
The Wooden Wonder (or Timber Terror) was of course the De Havilland Mosquito DH98 fighter bomber. The German aircraft that was intended to be the equivalent was the Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito, but it wasn't really successful and very few were built.
Looks like a Quad D9, a conversion on the regular Cat D9 invented by the legendary Buster Peterson in the 1960x, then later offered by Cat themselves.
http://www.petersonholding.com/about/history_Quads.php
Added more power for push-loading scrapers.
cheers,
Andy
Looks like a Quad D9, a conversion on the regular Cat D9 invented by the legendary Buster Peterson in the 1960x, then later offered by Cat themselves.
http://www.petersonholding.com/about/history_Quads.php
Added more power for push-loading scrapers.
cheers,
Andy
Wow Great work better than great Congrat's any roadup Thats a Buster Peterson DD9G tandem set up developed to shove those huge scrapers of the sixties an 70's. At that time it was all about getting those scrapers loaded, full and on their way thus the Mc Coy special D8's D17000 repowers in to D8's Tandam side by side end to end push tractors. Contractors like KMD and such where all looking for max push power thus the Western 2000 rubber tyred and the range of
Le T "K" `series electric pushers. Those F Macks are one of my Fav old jiggers along with the L series keep up that good work
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