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4 years 5 months ago #221288
by equipdriver
Bill, it’s been a while since I’ve been on. Last I knew I thought u were in Aromas. I see on your heading u r up in Monterey hills. That’s a nice area. Maybe that’s why your picture has sun in it. Very nice tractor. I can see how that wood would survive in the high desert but not so much around here. Anything metal or wood is rotted out in a few years. Have a great time.
Karl’s
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4 years 5 months ago #221307
by D4Jim
I have had this factory cab for a long time. I decided it was time to get it out and see how it felt to drive one. It was fun and that is what it is all about. Bill
Bill, What is the construction of the roof? Does it have a layer of canvas or is it all wood? Back in our area the only Cat I remember with a cab was owned by the county road department and it was steel.
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4 years 5 months ago #221316
by 3J1Bill
Yes the roof is wood and covered with canvas. I am priming the roof and putting on a new covering. Bill
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4 years 5 months ago #221317
by Hobo groh
Yes the roof is wood and covered with canvas. I am priming the roof and putting on a new covering. Bill
What are those track pads designed for? They look like their for mud?
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4 years 4 months ago #221724
by old-iron-habit
What are those track pads designed for? They look like their for mud?
No snow relief holes in them so my bet it is for easier turning with the wide pads. It has all the traction it can probably pull even with the tapered bars.
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4 years 4 months ago #221739
by Rome K/G
Wide shoes are for floatation, allot of small crawlers with wide shoes were used in carrot, radish, lettuce and other produce crops where the soil was soft or kinda swampy. Thats why quarry dozers use the narrowest shoes and LGP dozers use the widest.
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4 years 3 months ago #222387
by neil
Hi Bill, is the product used to glue the canvas to the roof also used to waterproof the canvas or is the canvas suitably waterproof anyway?
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Neil
Pittsford, NY
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4 years 3 months ago #222418
by dpendzic
on old wooden boats with wood canopy and decks we recanvassed them by putting a coat of enamel on the wood--placing the canvass while wet and then coated again with enamel--they seemed to last pretty good
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