Cat thirty info

It looks like an early thirty, it has a later mag and it would have been gray.

I don't know that much about the 30's but I do know that tractor and owner, actually drove it once. Lou is very fussy and does things right. Make a fine piece for some new owner!!!! Sorry to see him selling as I know it is one of his favorites.

Found this pic from a former time:
That's Willy showing Chris the ropes.....was instant hook and Chris went on to acquiring and rebuilding the 1H D8.

[quote="Old Magnet"]I don't know that much about the 30's but I do know that tractor and owner, actually drove it once. Lou is very fussy and does things right. Make a fine piece for some new owner!!!! Sorry to see him selling as I know it is one of his favorites.

Found this pic from a former time:
That's Willy showing Chris the ropes.....was instant hook and Chris went on to acquiring and rebuilding the 1H D8.

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Is that "Pasochris" at the controls Old Magnet, because he sure did a great job getting that old D8 going again in Paso Robles, Ol Willy must of used one of his best lures that day to get Chris hooked onto old Cats.😆

That sure is a nice looking Thirty, I hope it finds a good home, one of my good Aussie buddies was in Prunedale yesterday, I should of asked him to swing by and have a good look at that old girl, because I reckon Ol Lyoncat is just itching to put that tractor in a container and bring her to Oz.😖mokin: Ol Mikey loves those wide gauge Cats, and they seem to love him too.😆😆

I wonder how Pasochris is going, I never see him post anymore?
Mike

Hi Mike,
Yup, that's him.....last seen sporting a young lady.....haven't herd from him in a long time. Ya know how that goes...LOL.

looks like a very nice machine I wonder what the reserve is set at.

The serial number is s5598 and both numbers match cheers Chester

Mike-

Prunedale was my home from birth until my mid twenty's when I moved to the Mojave desert. My wife was raised in Prunedale and lived there until ~10 years ago (when she and I finally got together- having known each other since early high school days some 55-60 years ago!). In a couple of the Salinas bars, during my Hartnell days, I was known as 'The Mayor of Prunedale'. These were the days when the last group of riders in the California Rodeo daily Horse Parade were known as 'The Prunedale Drunks' (and they usually were!). I wasn't ever in the parade as I always wanted my horse power in the engine room of a mechanized vehicle!

Daron

Mike-

Prunedale was my home from birth until my mid twenty's when I moved to the Mojave desert. My wife was raised in Prunedale and lived there until ~10 years ago (when she and I finally got together- having known each other since early high school days some 55-60 years ago!). In a couple of the Salinas bars, during my Hartnell days, I was known as 'The Mayor of Prunedale'. These were the days when the last group of riders in the California Rodeo daily Horse Parade were known as 'The Prunedale Drunks' (and they usually were!). I wasn't ever in the parade as I always wanted my horse power in the engine room of a mechanized vehicle!

Daron

[quote="daron"]Mike-

Prunedale was my home from birth until my mid twenty's when I moved to the Mojave desert. My wife was raised in Prunedale and lived there until ~10 years ago (when she and I finally got together- having known each other since early high school days some 55-60 years ago!). In a couple of the Salinas bars, during my Hartnell days, I was known as 'The Mayor of Prunedale'. These were the days when the last group of riders in the California Rodeo daily Horse Parade were known as 'The Prunedale Drunks' (and they usually were!). I wasn't ever in the parade as I always wanted my horse power in the engine room of a mechanized vehicle!

Daron[/quote]
Hi Daron, You are talking about "Prunetucky" now, not Prunedale😆

I lived in King City for 6 years till 2002 and one of my best buddies lives in Prunedale, and yes, I know all about the Salinas Rodeo because I was Secretary of the King City Young Farmers for 6 years and we would always cook the kick off dinner on the Thursday, usually feed around 2,000 folks in 2 hours, then proceed to the Short Horn Bar to pound a few soda pops before dragging our BBQ pits home down HWY 101.

One of our illustrious members actually set fire to about 5 miles of HWY 101 just south of Chualar after he forgot to wet down the coals in his still burning BBQ pit at 9pm for the drive home, and reports from those following him down the Highway at 85mph say the BBQ pit looked like a F18 with both afterburners lit up behind his Chevy pick up, there were flames and sparks flying 100 yards behind the pit.😆😆

I must confess those King City boys usually didn't need much more booze or enthusiasm in their blood by the time we had finished cooking that BBQ, as we used to take up 2 kegs of beer plus a heap of wine in the old chuck wagon for around 30 cooks, so I'm not sure why we ever felt the need to head over to the Short Horn for a few hours of "Final Finals" before heading home.😆😆 I think it was that freezing Salinas fog that would roll in around 6pm that would chill a man to the bone, and make him think he needed a extra few shots of anti freeze, in fact my good buddy Nessun Schmidt was famous for riding his roping horse into that bar nearly every year.😆

Hey Daron, I bet your wife doesn't miss that Monterey fog, in fact you will remember that funny anecdote about Salinas, and a well travelled man who had seen Alaska and most the Rocky Mountains in winter, when asked "Tell me Sir, you have travelled far and wide across this great nation of ours, where was the place you experienced your coldest winter?" "Well", replied the traveller, "it was the summer I spent in Salinas that I found the coldest"😆😆.

Good chatting Daron, I might be in Salinas in November around 11-11-11, so if the nice Thirty we are discussing is still for sale I might wander past and "kick it's tracks" for my good buddy Ol Lyoncat, unless of course foreigners are not permitted to buy it, as I saw someone say here recently of another old Cat for sale.
regards
Mike