@john Johnson ,thankyou👍

Thanks 👍

+Anthony Macneil Cheers 👍 Yes it's pretty much like new, it's been fully restored, completely stripped and rebuilt from the ground up. If your interested have a look at our website www.bostonpowercat.com and in the photos section you will see a restoration gallery of the D8 and you can get an idea of what it underwent. You looking for one to do some work with or as a restoration project?

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed the video and took the time to comment 👍👍 Have a look at some of our other videos if you are interested in the big old Cats!!

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Started many of these Army units with the pony engine. Start the pony, engage a clutch, let the diesel turn over for a while ( depended on temp ), when ya think it was ready, turn on the fuel. Have to laugh about it, but it was so simple it worked.

Thanks for the comment, much appreciated and your right, they are a great piece of machinery

Your right, they might be old, but they can still be put to good use :-)

+Bostonpowercat I live in western Iowa and more than a couple of the farms around me have a D8 cat setting around ,,, usually used to build and maintain terraces ,,I personally don't have any tracked equipment aside from a couple large farm tractors with rubber tracks I have 2 large articulated 4x4 tractors similar to the 830M both large steiger tractors ,,the larger of the 2 is powered by a 500HP 8V-92TT aftercooled Detroit 2 stroke diesel

The older Cats are not so common in the UK unlike the States, but the US is their homeland. The Steigers are meant to be great tractors from what I have heard, the Detroit 2 stroke is screamer, bet it sounds awesome?!!

Bostonpowercat yes it's a screamer for sure ,, they earned the nick name screamin jimmy for a reason ,,,only way to silence a 2 stroke detroit is to shut it off

Thanks very much, yeah it's in pretty good shape, we literally tore it apart and did a full nut and bolt rebuild. If you have a look at our website www.bostonpowercat.com you will see some pictures on there of the restoration. Cheers

Bostonpowercat Some"cats"just won't die...HAHA!!.(that's a good thing)

Lol yeah some of them certainly do have 9 lives!!

Bostonpowercat I also want to say be real careful cranking up that pony motor,thumb OVER the crank and NEVER UNDER the crank.(If it kicks back,it could break some bones in the hands,OUCH!!)

+Anthony Macneil yeah definitely, that would be great if you get one, could always get some pics up on the website of you wanted 👍👍

That does make sense, we were just bought in to get the tree out of the stream as it was backing it up.

+Bostonpowercat Sounds right.

+Arthur Bradley I see, said the blind man.

Thanks very much 👍

Lol I think your right, you might have had a bit of wheel spin with the Allis Charmers!! Cheers :-)

Cheers, make sure you check out our channel for some more videos of other "beasts" in action!!

Lol it was a fair old tree that's for sure!!

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funny

+bassmanjoe8 Thanks very much 👍 Check out some of our other videos if you like the older stuff. Cheers

Thanks :-) If your interested check out our website www.bostonpowercat.com, in the pictures section there is a gallery of photographs showing the restoration work carried out on it.

We have a few D8's, the others are all in yellow so it's nice to have this in green for a change and yes we wanted to keep it true to it's military origins. Tracks are old, but brand new so need a bit of wearing in and freeing up! Cheers 👍

iamrichrocker Thanks very much, much appreciated :-) Check out our other videos if your a first time viewer!!

I did..and I subbed..would like restorations of these old timers..and if you search out these old guys that would be nice to view...anyways..thx..and keep making the videos..

iamrichrocker Great stuff!! thanks for the sub :-) If you like the restoration side of things check out our website www.bostonpowercat.com, in the pictures section there is a whole album of photographs showing the restoration from start to finish of the D8 in this video.

Well this eye sight of yours seems to be getting better and better!! Another good spot, yes it's a VT55 recovery tank, have you see our tank video of it crushing the VW Polo?

Glad your enjoying the vids, comments like make all the effort worthwhile 👍 Just curious why wear a a khaki green top for the military stuff, in keeping with the theme?

Yes, just for an authentic looking theme! cheers!

Ok cool 👍👍👍

Yes very good point, unfortunately the bottom end of the tree was on the other side of a stream/river so couldn't get the D8 to it and we didn't have a long enough chain to reach across to it. The D8 has plenty of grunt though so a few branches didn't worry it :-) Thanks for the comment 👍👍

Yes they are new so just bedding in, we have a new video of it mole ploughing this week and they sound much better already. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptNdlruH0teagY0.html Cheers

+Bostonpowercat Mole plow, I've never seen that done on a field. I've seen it done to lay cable and irrigation lines. Never just for drainage, here they lay in plastic corrugated pipe from a big roll.

The best way and long term way is to lay the corrugated pipe like you mention, but it sure does cost a lot, mole ploughing is a very cheap alternative, but can be very effective. The field we did it in is just used for grazing so not really worth the effort/cost of laying pipes. Where you from? Cheers

+Bostonpowercat Michigan

Lol yes very true, they are new tracks so they need a bit of bedding in hence the squeaks!

+jim smith Brand new tracks on it so they are just bedding in, hence the noise 👍

+jim smith no problems :-)

+Robert Hawtin ,yes it was a old popular tree we had to fell as the centre was rotten ,it was 120ft long.Cheers.

Lol good to hear from you :-) No cucumber kitty, this one has had a full rebuild from engine to running gear so just a prrrrr!!!! Good spot on the 666 wheel, hadn't even noticed until you mentioned it!! It was in red lead after sand blasting and before the yellow went on.

That is a sweet old 8 all right. I'd need a blade or something to doodle with. I'll let you off for no kitty. I can always rewatch something that has it. Cheers Guys! Good One!

Thanks very much, your comments are much appreciated :-) your right a blade or a box would go well on her.

If you had a p.c.u laying around you could hang it on her back and pull a cable lift scraper. That'd get the kinks out of that new undercarriage!

Lol yeah a power control unit would be ideal !! She needs a bit of running in first, bed those squeaky tracks in, but that would be a good way 👍 how's the quarry going?

+Wesley Allen Very well spotted 👍 Yes it's a VT55 recovery tank, if you have a look at our other videos we have a video of the VT55 crushing a car!!

Barry McGuigan Yeah she sure is noisy, check out some of our other videos for some other great sounding machines :-)

Thanks for the tip, much appreciated and something to start implementing 👍👍

Should be standing by track and pull handle towards you , and pull with just 4 fingers DO NOT wrap thumb around handle for obvious reasons !!

Your right she is a bit squeaky, but she has had a new under carriage and has only been run a couple of hours so everything is still tight, give her a couple of days work and everything will have bedded in and be squeak free 👍

Don,t waste your time greasing link pins....if you want you can use SAE 30 oil and squirt some on the links but even that will not penetrate new pins and links as they are a tight fit with no bushes or bearings.

+Anthony Macneil lol yeah if you need to do anything major like new tracks or pistons and liners things can get quite expensive pretty quick!! You should be able to find something to do n could condition if you take your time and have a look around. Not sure how many are kicking around n Canada, but the U.S has plenty unlike the UK as it is their home country.

Yes they are a new set of tracks, but they weren't run for a long time, the machine has only done about 6 hours since a full rebuild so everything is just bedding in 👍

Good question, I was putting the spark plugs back in, I had taken them out to give them a clean, I hope that's the bit you were on about? Cheers

+Anthony Macneil runs cheap...depends what condition you pick one up in and what needs doing to it , but it is a Caterpillar, you can still get all the parts, but being Caterpillar the parts aren't always cheap!! Hope this helps??

Lol not on this vintage old gal :-)

+Anthony Macneil Have a look round the forums, you might come across something, your right though a lot of the street ff out there for sale is the new stuff so you need to look in the more niché places. It's a 6 cylinder diesel, holds about 55 gallons and that would do a 8 to 10 hour day depending how hard you were working.

+Anthony Macneil ps that's UK gallons which I know are bigger than a U.S gallon, not sure about Canada though. Also that info is for the green D8 8R not the one being tow starting or doing the towing, they are newer!!

Bostonpowercat Canada uses "used" the bigger "imperial" gallon also. Only three countries in the world now that are not metric.

We have a friend who speaks Spanish, but he's away at the moment so we don't understand!! Do you speak English at all? Sorry to be a pain, cheers :-)

My friend i speak and can read english too y write in Sanish because many peope use the google traslator or the KZfaq traslation Thanks apologize me the new letter will be in ....Englishh jjajajaj Bye My Friend ! In the old D8, y write This tractor was many time stopped and the pin and bushing of the traks are rusted and frozen jajaja Greeting Juan or John

Hello!! Sorry for the language confusion, we can use google translate, but it never seems very good for some of the technical words!! we have a friend who speaks Spanish so it's normally not a problem, but he's away at the moment :-( I take it you mean the tracks are squeaky/noisy? They are a brand new set of tracks on it after a full rebuild and it hasn't been run much so they are still tight and stiff therefore making a lot of noise! With a bit more work they will settle down and the noise will go. Greetings to you Juan from Bostonpowercat :-)

i am a old mechanic in machinery industrial CAT and farm IHC when America was America and the mesurement was in INCHES ! Our work was hard with temperatures in summer 40! in winter sub zero. The machine haven t cab or air conditioner. Many times whitout spare parts, and repair the parts welding or lathe . Time hard my friend. actually , is more easy More electrical equipment, little cranes , my lovely Hister . another equip is a old Ford F 100 62 as mobile shop.At my 67 year old continue working. Geeting my friend Please look my web site www.thecastorcompany.es.tl

Great website 👍👍 you have some great pictures and can see you have undertaken some pretty impressive jobs. Things certainly have moved on in this modern day and awesome for better some for worse. Great to hear you are still active and working at 67 years old, that's impressive especially in this industry. The ford f100, is it 1962? That's a great classic right there. Great to hear from you :-)

+william cross lol awesome, thank you 👍👍

Yes 😁😁

This is it's original colour, it was used by the military in WW2, so to keep it all original we kept it's original colours, we have a few other D8's in the traditional Cat yellow so it was also nice to have something a bit different !! Cheers 👍

+C&R Mowing lol yes very true, an old pair of Nikes I think I found at the back of the cupboard, but your right not ideal 😬

We have a friend who speaks Spanish, but he's away at the moment so we don't understand!! Do you speak English at all? Sorry to be a pain, cheers :-)

I was working for 40 years in CAT dealer FINANZAUTO in spain. I'm from Granada

Great to hear from you :-) what did you do for Cat, office based or mechanical side of things?

What would you call it?

A cat D8 military gray, that’s what I’d call it lol