They are great to see, we appreciate the effort that members go to to get them to the show!! Thanks for watching.

Scrotie! Thanks for watching.

Very fun and a great cross section of Caterpillar history. It was great to see many young enthusiasts operating the machines.

Timothy! Our pleasure, glad you liked it and we appreciate the comment. Although we had members from around the globe in attendance, there are still many that cannot be there in person, so hopefully, these videos give a good representation of proceeedings.

Would have loved to learn about this event - is it held in Santa Margarita every year?

It is not held in Santa Margaritia every year, however SM does have events through the year. Watch our website for information on future shows around the country.

Good to hear from you! We kinda love cable blade D8's.

Thanks!!

Welcome! Great to hear from a Cat owner in Portugal. D4D's are a favorite.

@@acmocD2 👌

I believe I have a short on the wheel dozer and will have more video on it coming soon - thank you for watching!

Not a dumb question! Crawler tractors were initially designed as agricultural tractors and bulldozer blades were developed later on. Many you see at this show were either ag machines or they have the blades removed for the work being done, for example, pulling a scraper pan. Thanks!

That is for sure, one Cat 60 doing the work of a 20 horse team. It changed the world.

@@acmocD2 I mechanicd on heavy equipment from the mid 1970s to late 1980s mostly Caterpillar .Cat has one heck of a parts and distribution system and years ago there parts system made the statement that they could supply parts for thier equipment from far back I doubt that is true today. Thanks for the very interesting video.

Dan, you would be surprised at how many parts for these machines are still available from Cat. Thanks for watching!

@@acmocD2 Thanks for that information that is good to know that things haven't changed to much.

They are very rare. These were primarily built for use in cane fields where traction was needed but also speed for pulling wagons and useable on a paved road. Obviously tracked machines were only good for one part of that.

@@acmocD2 Oh that's really interesting and thank you for taking the time to reply. I am from the UK and have an agriculture background. My father used to grow potatoes and when it was really wet we used tracked Caterpillar tractors to pull the wheeled tractors in tandem to get the harvesters and trailers through the mud. On the road the trailers would be pulled by the high speed wheeled tractors to the factory. Once the potatoes had been harvested we put the bulldozer blades on the tracked Caterpillar tractors and flattened the ruts on the fields. Slightly different solution to the same problem by using a mix of tracked and wheeled tractors. It was brutal but that's how a bag of potato chips gets made.

You do what you need to do to get the job done!

These are moseying along at idle and they are relatively quiet, under load and at full throttle it does change quite a bit!

Not the tracks on that sixty five! Lmao, amazing how almost a hundred years can go by and that squeak still hasn't changed.

No doubt! Considering the heavy work these machines did in their day, the fact that they are still capable of it, let alone running and operating is truly amazing.

@@acmocD2 lmao, I meant even modern machines have that damnable track squeak/squeal too. 🤣

Ahhhh! Yes indeed, apparently they had the design perfected from the word go!

Yes indeed, we still operate those same type of machines!