Old yellow Cat Iron 2

Shame to see them rusting away. Great video 👍

Thank you for the reply, everything in that video at one time or another I have repaired. It’s amazing engineering for the time.

Great old iron video. It would be tough to find enough operators to run those old pulls anymore. People have gotten too soft for them 😂

I made my living working on all those old Cats, and yes it was in CA. as for were all those 650s came from. all over southern CA. shipped in from back east: and left after the project is over, many times sold off at auction I go back to the middle of the 60's cutting my teeth on all that old yellow Iron. what kept me around was the 666 scrapers. I can still recall sitting in a cat dealer class being trained up on the 641 A scrapers. and of course how about those 46 A D 8's and U2s. back in the day, Cat wasn't all that versatile having a long list of different equipment. When I was on the move I worked for SJ Groves and Sons and Co. Like a lot of high rollers, they went the way, eat up from with in. It was a shame. McCoy and Son. went big time with the 666, in CA. SJ groves and McCoy were the two best companies I ever worked for. To Most people it was just a job, what they could get out of it. for me it was a way of life. I loved it all. Now I'm the old man at 75 looking back. I can recall when I was just a kid of sorts, Some of the help were farmers. Instead of running the bolts back in the way you should, air wrench or by hand, Those old times pull out a big hammer and drive them in. Pretty much all of them were that way, I spent hours replacing weld nuts and bolts these character slammed home with a two pound hammer. and think nothing of it There is not a machine in that line of old yellow Iron that can't do the same job this newer equipment is doing. It all works, just because no one wants to use it doesn't mean it is no good, that rust rubs off. One of the last companies to use the DW21 was down in by the city of SD. I can't recall his name, He was a stinker........... worst ever owner operator I ever known, but he seemed to have the know how to make money. I worked for the guy for a little more then a year. The Lord Bless you and yours.

Jeff Anderson off you tube would love this as he only runs old cats

Same iron moved dirt on peace river, building wac bennet dam ,northern bc. Im assuming rough would be understatement. Lots of air conditioning , surround sound . Back when men were men, and woman knew it

Someone paid some serious money to transport those machines to remote eastern Oregon 😮

thanks for sharing you sure don't see stuff like that sitting around.

I’m from Scotland and there’s nothing like this here. It’s crazy reading the comments about the shifting of all that gear. Hard to get my head around the distance they’ve traveled. Here Glasgow is the west and Edinburgh on the east are 45 miles apart. The states blow my mind with the scale of it

Great video Mike! Brings back memories of my days at CAT! Well done Sir!

I would be willing to bet that some of this came from Southern California Excavation. Lol. Or at least one with the white line on the wheel.

grew up in the industry, never around the 660s ,more around cats and letourneau cans ,and 27 37 41 and 57s hope someone sees the potential of those and uses them for what they were built for thanks for the time and vid and as it was said give j paydirt a look thankyou

Oh man that’s like a playground!

SO CAL Earthmovers had vids of 660"s in action a few years back, still hauling butt. Repowered w DD

This looks right up JPaydirt's alley. He runs 3x 637s on his channel.

651 E was great. The best motor grader was the 140G.move the earth.

GREAT VIDEO KEEP THEM COMING THANKS FOR YOUR HARD WORK 😅

Wow mate they're beautiful old girls

Nice

I've driven by those several times and wondered how or why they were there.