Here is picture of the way we used to move 48' of hoe drills. Darrol

i like good old cats, with pony motor. Dony any of your's have one?

any of your cats pony motor start?

any of them pony motor start? Donko

i like old cat diesels Donko

"Darrol wrote:

Here is picture of the way we used to move 48' of hoe drills. Darrol

Slick looking set up Darrol. A lot of guys around here built a similar looking rig to transport JD HZ's. They used the wheels on the front of the drills ( they fully
castor) and then built wheels & mounts for the press wheel side...jack up the drill, slap on the wheels and take off down the road endo.

98J: This was a transporter Noble built to transport drills. You let the transporter down on the ground and backed drills up on the frame work, raised it up with hydraulic cylinders. Was a four wheel rig with a steerable rear axle to get around the curves.

"donko" wrote:

i like good old cats, with pony motor. Dony any of your's have one?

Yup. My 9u has a pony....late enough (1958 or so..SN 9u22331) that it came
standard with direct start. The original owner didn't believe in all of that foolishness, so he special ordered it with a pony.

He sold it to a friend of mine in the late 60's. When I first ran it for him in 1972,it had a wood cab & the biggest rear mount Bee Gee I ever saw. Already had the dry air conversion. The gear driven generator had been converted to an accessory drive running a 12 volt alternator....that kind of juice really put the power to the original 8v starter on the pony.

I helped him build a steel cab & add a pressurizer & AC to the cab. Gotta have tunes when yer farming, so in went the radio (One of my neighbors
says 'when the radio is broke down, I'm broke down) After a couple of train
wreaks with the Bee Gee, he had a front mount hydraulic pump installed.
Really nice to have live hydraulics. Spent a lot of time in this Cat before I got
a chance to buy it.

I bought the tractor from my friend in 1979 when he bought a new D5B. Parked in front of my shop.....warming her up to change oil:



A close up.....some details .......notice the air filter for the pony has been
converted to a dry type ( stock Cat at the time).....just below that (between
the pony cyl. head & the diesel breather) is a oil pressure switch ( energizes
the Alt circuit when the oil pressure comes up, kills the circuit at engine
shut down)

Further forward.....the aforementioned accessory drive, running the alternator
(top) and the AC pump ( below)



Tucked up under the hood......a turbo.......added in 1986. Made a good ag
tractor even better:



When I had this installed, she needed to breath better, so the original Cat
dry type air filter was replaced with a larger one from the D5's

A little different angle......right after coming out of the shop with a new
coat of paint......pony on the left of the frame, right above the oil clutch.
Probably will never be this clean again.....small braided pressure line up to
the turbo....larger return line just forward of the breather. A better view
of the accessory drive conversion in this shot.



At work.......pulling the "B's" seeding wheat:

The 9U is by far the best looking and best handling (my limited experience ended in 1962) tractors by far. When I see pictures of a good clean one like that of 98j my heart skips a beat.

I also have quite a pristine late 9U. I acquired it within the past year after keeping my eye on it for a number of years.

Tracks have been upgraded to D5 and the neighbors say the engine had 5k spent on it but it gurgles a lot of oil. Do I have to pull the head and figure out what is going on.

As the old guy 98j talks about I insisted on it having a Starter motor.

Hi 98J You appear to have one of the last 9U built hydraulic clutch etc.The Turbo is not a manufacturers cat i presume. what H Power does it turn out with the Turbo. Congratulations on such a nice restoration out of all the cats grey and yellow the D69U is one of my favourites. thanks Atlas