Just getting back into the groove of things here. We had such a wet winter(thank you), it was misery to even work indoors.
Slowly getting back into projects and such.
This one isn’t worth the effort to save, so as Ray54 says, sometimes one must die so another can live.
Not a fan of wrecking one out, but parts is parts.
Sorry, none available to anyone currently. JM

It certainly has in central California...
 

DeltaKJ: Is that D2 equipped with the optional GPS?
Impressive!

Caterpillar had the GPS option in the Attachment section of their 1956 parts catalog (albeit in very fine print!) . 

Back in my glory days of slaving away on a rice farm for minimum wage, driving straight was my only entertainment. Me being low man on the totem pole, I was left with the only units without any cab or shade for that matter (except at night, when they had me drive someone else's to finish a field for them, go figure).
No shade, no stereo, nothing but the sound of the engine and tracks! GeeMan didn't mind, but the boredom could be quite numbing.( I know some have heard this story repeatedly, but It reminds me of a hard time in my life, and the goodness that became of it).
To keep myself "entertained" I did my best to drive PERFECTLY straight, especially in the rice ":checks" that were by the road; those individual blocks were big and very long, my estimation 3/4 of a mile or further, and nothing to use as a guide or target/marker to stay on course. A blessing and a curse, as the owner owned several small aircraft, and would constantly fly over the fields I was placed in, not to mention the neighboring farmers that kept cruising back and forth repeatedly each hour to study the D7E I was driving.
My supervisors finally had enough, and came out with about 4 company pickups and several neighbors, very upset. They waited for me at the end of a run, and waved me in to get off the tractor;body language did not read to well with me, as being as dry as their personalities were, they did not look please whatsoever!
THIS is the GEE GPS we have! Stop the questions! As my mentor Bob B. shouted out, along with head bobbing from 2 other bosses and the service truck driver. IT IS THE OPERATOR. Nothing else on that damned tractor, go look for yourselves!!! The neighbor farmers looked one more time at the tractor and drove away peacefully. Too funny.
After the puzzled ones drove off, the bosses said they would probably plant a sign in the field saying it was GGPS equipped Caterpillar, laughing all the way back to headquarters.
I told them that water could still run crooked, and if they wanted to make comparisons, have one of the regular operators triplane level next to me, as it would really make my lines stand out. No shortage of work there for me. I overheard them arguing among themselves where I was supposed to work, as each supervisor also had their own fields to tend to.
The only complaints about me, were the fuel truck had to top me off a minimum of 3 times daily, and that my overtime was killing the owner.
I don't think I ever worked so hard for anyone. I am sure some will agree that I might have lost my mind out there, baking my brain and yes, the floorboards do get WARM on a 47A!!! Good times, as I learned a lot from just sitting on that tractor 16 hours 7 days a week. JM

Juiceman. You are an old school operator that pays attention and has pride in your work and making the field look nice when your done! Rare these days. As for the D2 and the drill, it don’t get any better than that!! I see people that will work their ground make a pretty nice seed bed and then take a dueled tractor that is as wide as the drill and track their field and make a big mess!! go figure. Nothing Beats a Cat for seeding!

17AFarmer wrote:

Juiceman. You are an old school operator that pays attention and has pride in your work and making the field look nice when your done! Rare these days. As for the D2 and the drill, it don’t get any better than that!! I see people that will work their ground make a pretty nice seed bed and then take a dueled tractor that is as wide as the drill and track their field and make a big mess!! go figure. Nothing Beats a Cat for seeding!
I second that!!!!!
 

Hay Gee I never heard that so, have you got more? I fully understand that boredom, but generally everything here has steep spot or a cliff or a rock 1 inch under what you see, so where is that dam rock again.

Must have been the fall of 82 I helped a friend cut safflower on highway 25 east of King City. A flat valley with the 25 highway to Hollister or the 198 from San Ardor to Coalinga a real populated area, NOT. The safflower was well over 6 foot tall and full of yellow star thistle as well a true pain the rear to cut. The Mee ranch that owned it was in bankruptcy the crop was volunteer on flat as table top ground with irrigation main lines marked with 5 foot at best stakes. So you creep along to not plug up but as we started each new field were is the main line. We did have a radio and a CB in the cab. So easy to drift off to where the brain was any place but on watching the header. Until you saw the hydrant the boss had just straddled by pure accident that had a stake lower than we were cutting. Then the call out Mike did you know you just went over a hydrant?

Here I thought a crawler on flat ground was its own GPS by the get the right place in regard to your last pass and then let it go till your at the other end.

Out here in the hills everybody tilled with a offset disc and you went round and round until you where done. It did not matter how much up and down just the way "IT WAS DONE". But at least my family had figured out a springtooth cultivator you could turn ether direction and if you crossed it at a angle to the discing you removed disc ridges. So cultivating has always been my favorite tillage pass as "free styling" was allowed and even encouraged.

The drill picture could almost be at my place but never seeded with a Cat always my AC HD 5. There as with Gee and how straight he could drive. No straight fields here, but always did Ok watching the drill wheel track and keeping looking over the track and staying in the right place. Then giving a look at the drill to make sure everything is working.