Thanks for the video my dad used to own same D8 Bulldozer and a D7 both had cable blades, he contracted to a large forestry company in New Zealand I learnt to drive these as a 9 year old - cold morning starts with the small starter motor to start the main engine the noise of the torquey Cat motor when it fires up. If there was a hill around which in NZ in the forest there were a lot used park the bulldozer up the hill with the blade up jump start second gear reverse watching the oil pressure on the bottom right hand side come up then pull the hand clutch to start. If memory serves me right 5 speed main box a forward and reverse lever, hand clutch two steering levers with the throttle in between, two foot brakes to lock right and left tracks when pulling the correct steering lever even had a locking pin for the brakes hard up against the seat. When going downhill you could use the steering levers to turn BUT to go left you had to pull the right lever and left to go right without the steering brakes - thanks for the memories my dad was still running the same model in 1972.

Beautiful, I ran a 14-A many thousand hours clearing land back in the late fifties, until I got a new powershift D8H in 1959. I still have dents in my shins where the break paddles hit me in the shins when my toe slipped on the paddle. Thanks for the video.

I'm absolutely fascinated by these vidoes. I'm part of a family owned and operated excavating company. I run every thing from small skid steers, to dozers, loaders and excavators. I of course grew up on these new age pieces of equipment. I'm so amazed that these old cats are just barely running any RPMs and are pushing mountains. These old things last forever it seems. These newer dozers just don't run like this..Yea they have their advantages and I can sure nuff make something pretty with our D5, but they seem to always be tearing up. I'm dying to hop on one of these old cats..

Had a D7E for 26 years it was a great machine , It was the best crawler I ever had never let me down , even in real cold winter's

The sound of a CAT D8 running is one of the best diesel engine sounds

You know it must be hard for your Dad to reply to your Mum that he has had a hard day at work...... big kid is living the dream pushing dirt in the D8 and loving every moment of it.....lucky bugger, good on him

We had a 1947 3T and a 1953 14A that we farmed with in the 70's. Brings back memories.

Worked a 48 D8 cable blade for 5 years in Cdn Army. mostly snow work and fire breaks. Occasional road in training areas and of course recovery work which it was meant for. Took a while to learn cable work. Tried hydraulics for a while but did love my old cable blade.

thanks for the show real nice to hear a put motor again my dad had lot of 3 T d7 17 a d7 and few old 2 u d8 i could not wait to get away from old junk lol to operate 46 a d8 for Ben Ginter const in1964 now i would like to on a 3 t for the hell of it

5 Inch Bore X 8 Inches of Stroke X 6 massive cylinders slow RPM Huge Torque 🚜👍

I operated a 14 D-8 for a long time . I also cleared a 9 acre track covered with trees with a 1939 D-8

I love these old things!

sweet, i love the D8's, they are great dozers. The commentary is the perfect touch to your already great vids. Keep em coming!

Cool video I have heard stories from a guy who used to run D8 cable dozers years ago about who awesome they are, they really are a cool machine

I probably would of liked to have done this for a living , because I could watch this all day.

In our farm, we used a big pay loader and four dump trucks. Four separate ponds were dug up deep in a week.

I can’t get over how clean the smoke is when it’s pushing.

...love watching that block and tackle on the blade...must have been a fast winch...

I've been in and around the industry for over 30 years and always love the old machines. I work for a company that runs all new equip now but I've run an 8 2u and a 6 8u, both great machines that as far as I know are still operable today. There is just no way these new machines will be running 60 years from now.

Love it. Brings back many memories. All hydraulic these days, but the cable PCU worked well and caused few problems.

The main engine on an mid 50's D7 I used to start had a compression release. You could spin it over with the pony motor in cold weather and it would heat up the main motor because the cooling system is tied in with the pony motor. It's fun to watch and hear the old iron in action.

I like to hear these running on black top! Bare tracks. Priceless sound!

Great video , great machine

I'm surprised there wasn't an accident when it blew up!

Makes one’s heart warm and content...

We had a 13A model before this with a crank handle start for the pony motor, Hydraulic dozer and a PCU for the Towed Scraper and Ripper, goes forever they had the weight power ratio perfected in this days.

Awesome video, keep up the good work!

Great vid commentary was cool help understand what was going on in detail.

you guys rock. Enjoying the videos morand more, especially with the back and forth commentary and conversation. Your videos are aging like a fine wine, just like the iron you got on here. Happily staying subscribed to this channel, guys.

The camera and camera work has been excellent for a while now... but the commentary adds even more to your already excellent videos! Please keep up the good work... it is much appreciated.

people all over tx are doing this b/c of no rain .......old cable blades take some getting use to and i can tell this operator is use to this dozer....great video

Memories from 9 years old,,,i was set loose on blackberries with d 8 very nice

I ran a old D8 2U back in the 70's in South Texas, chaining, stacking, plowing, tank building pulling a 10 yard cable scraper. Good times

"14A D8........best dozer ever made!!!" great line. well, Im back again, another evening watching your old D8 videos, LOL

Love the new vids with the new camera and commentary!

Nothing like the growl of an old diesel Cat

1950s Cat D8: make it right, look after it faithfully and its still productive!

son: go buy me a dodge dad: get me a new kid you must be the best of friends.

Really cool d8 I never driven a cable dozer oldest dozer I ran was a d8k

Great video ... Nice ole dozer

In my opinion the 46A D8H is the best dozer made I have ran D9G also and they are great as well.

Love the D8 Caterpillar

these machines can make the earth shake, i'm trying to get one someday or at least get to drive one.

What a great old dozer, I would rather operate it than a brand new one with cab and A.C. thank you.

I love this great old machines!

Hi, Folks. He is entitled to his opinion but I can think of a good few dozers that I would rather operate than a 14A D8 - ALL Caterpillar though. Just my 0.02. You all have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

those old straight piped CAT's have a great sound to them

Hehe ! Nice video man, I enjoy my daily dose of Diesel power ! :)

great pour job bahaha.

Clean as a whistle

Nice .I love Catterppilar D 4 .8.all.

that Is so freaking cool, your dad looks like a lil kid playing with a tonka pure happiness

SMALL MOTOR STARTS THE BIG MOTOR LOVE IT

Nice video thanks.

Best method of preserving put motor is to keep the gas tank valve closed except when starting. After use, turn the gas tank valve off, not the mag, and let the motor die by using up all the fuel in the put motor's carb. Then turn the mag switch off.

Funnel would come in handy

Me traen recuerdos de infancia mi padre lo apodaban el marino buen operador de los mejores abrió caminos de Linares al sur distintas empresas contribuyo al progreso de mi país Chile

love d8's

Man I would love to own a piece of equipment like that just for the heck of it.

Man your dad reminds me of a guy i worked with when i worked for a John Deere dealer.Weird huh?LOL I enjoy the vids man.Wish i could smell diesel every morning.Later

i bet that is super good fertilizer!

I grew up in the'60's and thats all we used in my father's Quaries. I really don't know the modern dozers. The last time I was on one of those things was around 1973 and it was a D9G.

Those pony motors are always popping, farting, bangin.....wait a minute, maybe that wasn't the pony!

On start up, that gas motor sound was a pony engine mounted on the side of the engine used to turn the diesel engine over. You pulled a handle and it engaged with the fly wheel and hence fired the engine up,

Last of the 22As was a excellent tractor with the bigger engine

Love your guys channel! How many dozers do you guys have in total? Running or not.

Puppystarting :) Cats Puppy

Got a question for y'all old timers. Why did Cat up size their dozers in the 60's. Gramps has two dozers. A cable D7 from the 50's (don't know if she runs its been sittin long time) and a hydraulic D6 from the 70's. Why are they both the same size? And why can he fit the blade from the cable dozer on his hydraulic one? Cause that's what he's doin.

That guy should have used a funnel to fill the fuel tank of that old Caterpillar. As he was doing it, he's just spilling the fuel on the back of it. Luckily, it didn't catch on fire.

I hate those poney motors cranked a many of d 7 3 t dry clutch cable rigs winch an d7 17 a cats,, my dad had a lot of old dozers even a allis chambers gas engine one,, we way back we. pushed lighter pine stumps with the cats with a special inside frame stumper to split an grub the stump then loaded them on trucks delevered to the mill,, for gulf naval stores then Hercules powder company for the rosin pine extracted from them a century old process back then ,my dad started in the early fiftys,, after ww11 from Mississippi then we moved to centeral florida in 1955 an worked till the mid 80s

Nice d8

@daledozer haha, this is the first time i've heard em' talk too! i always wondered about that. beginning to think they were robots.

Lol your dad is awesome! My fav part was when he was all like ah sum bitch!

At 1:53... "it blow up" kkkkkkk LOL

Worst part of the old Cats was that rotten little pony engine! Spend half the day getting it going, then eventually it'd break a crankshaft anyway.

Funnels are still a useful item, $cheap too.

cool!i love the old d8,s with cluth.those are one of my dream dozers.i found a d7 just like that but a d7 near by me for 7500 bucks.if it runs good is that good deal ya think?thumbs up for the vid!

@DieselPowerTV That pond is not deep enough what 3feet at most?

Equipment was sure built to last back in the day

Straight water in the cooling system and that's your favorite dozer? How do you treat the ones you don't like?

theres just something bout old bulldozers i like my little td6 but would lovvvvvvvvveeeeeee to have one of the bigger mosters

we have a d8 cat like yours where the steering bars are under the seat and spread out except ours is like twice as big the radiator on ours is about 7 or 8 feet the tracks are about 4 and a half feet i cant find any pictures of his on the internet but its a 48 i think

This guy knows something about making that old girl peel a nice grade.

ha a little motor cranking a big one

The biggest drawback of cable blades is their lack of pown pressure.

O'l 66A D-9 G,s was the best ones ever made bar none

Question: I was running an old D8 like this one. I had started the blade coming up, and I couldn’t get it to stop. Of course, I was pushing and pulling the control arm back and forth, trying to get it to respond. It didn’t, and the blade just kept coming up. I was using the horizontal control arm to the right of the operator seat. I know I had the right control, because I had used it to pick the blade up in the first place. Unfortunately, it just kept coming up until the cable snapped. All these years I’ve wondered if it was my fault, or if the dozer was misbehaving. Is there anything to using that control arm other than just pushing it to one side or the other? I’ve never understood what happened. Thanks.

Put myself through University building logging roads on a 14A in the Pacific Northwest. Those old engines had more torque lugging down to 60rpm than was believable. I loved that old girl, but I'm not much in love with my hearing these days!!

Thumbs up for disowning the Dodge owning son... Are the ponds extra dry this year or do you guys do this pond work every year?

Nice!

Looks like a war tank

Ok guys...they invented this device called a funnel... really handy...and more importantly I see the lower portion of your air filter hanging open which will allow raw air to enter yeah I give that thing about a week... If you're lucky

starting it was a B*tch we had to fix the starter then fix the magneto then use those to start the pony motor then the big engine turned over after a can or two of ether and we had to fill all the fluids,diesel,gas,oil,coolant,drive fluid,hydraulic fluid and then we had to bleed all the lines and drain water from the oil and put the cable back on the front

Memories! I operated the 14A building logging roads near MORTON WASH in the 60's

I had one of these and a 2u they were parts machines though but I like these machines better than the newer stuff cause it uses less fuel

Let the pony engine get warmed up and heat the main engine before engaging the clutch to turn the main. Let the main build oil and fuel pressure turn on fuel to the main close compression releases and the main should run much better.

How many horses and Torkeys does it have

Diesel means high pressure, and high heat. CAT diesels could withstand the high pressure and heat. That is why they are still around today.

It looks like Arizona, exactly where I’m not sure.

how many gallons of diesel does it require/hour you figure; a rough estimate?