![]() ![]() 700hp Produced from '78-'86 Picture of a Cat D9L still working in Alaska ,Dalton Hwy job. Help the demolition experts finish off the job. ![]() The first 76W ever put into production has been rebuilt and is on display in Peoria at the factory. 1 Here's picture of a 30 year old Cat D10 still working, at Anvik, Alaska. Call in the heavy-duty demolition Bulldozer The dynamite has done its work and its time to demolish the remaining part of the old building to make way for new. Parts were sometimes a problem as Cat was changing stuff so fast some dealers wouldn't stock much for them as by the time the part was on the shelf, it was already obsolete or updated.Ĭat is pretty proud of the D10 however. Most of the 10's I was ever around worked double shift or more and were worked hard. We had to push our 631E's with a lowly D10N there at Kennecott. This fall it’s all about the new LEGO Technic 42131 Cat D11 Bulldozer: 3,854 pieces, four motors, a bunch of new pieces, and a price tag of US 449.99 CAN 549.99 UK 419.99. I nearly got it back in early 96 at Kennecott Copper in Salt Lake City but a road job in eastern Montana got it first. Then the engine failed and it was hauled off to Missoula, MT. I thought when I left Colorado in 93 that I had seen the last of it, but no, in 95 when I hired back in the company, they sent me up to Beatty, Nevada and guess what was waiting for me there? It hadn't gotten any better with age and I fought it for about two months. It was in pretty good shape when I left though. I spent well over two hundred fifty thousand dollars in parts on this machine in three years on the uranium job in Colorado. Had to have two parts books you see, plus every parts and service bulletin and fiche that Cat had concerning D10's. It was a b*****d machine having been equipped with newer or updated parts going on 610-up and older leftover stuff from 609-down. ![]() My last experience, D10 wise, was with 84W610, the next unit built after a serial number break update for these models. I did a significant amount of work on Gilbert-Westerns D10 in the oil shale operations too. I think I rebuilt every D10 final drive then in use on the western slope. I worked in a Cat house in 1980-81 in western Colorado and assisted factory engineers testing brake and steering clutch springs and then, later on, hydraulic pressures for the operation of the steering and brakes. Could a built another 10 with the spare and used parts we had on hand. We had continuous track problems, engine trouble, steering and brakes, hard bars, bottom rollers, you name it. Didn't leave us or Whayne Supply much time to fix the derned things. They were running double shift in surface coal mines in eastern Kentucky six days a week. Some of my early experience with the 84W was in 1984 with low serial number models. ![]()
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