Caterpillar D6C 10K Content

Hello, Welcome to the forum. Looks like you have a pretty straight tractor there. Pretty much if a d6c is running and driving it will be good for the farm for a long time. Others can attest that the d6c is one of the best tractors that Cat made and may be the most reliable. they will run with a multitude of things wrong with them. Anymore, it's only a few hundred dollars more to buy new chains than to have the bushings turned. A set of Korean chains would last you a few thousand hours and on the farm that might be 20 years. They are a quick machine and you can move a lot of material in an hour. If you don't need the side screens on the farm I will pay you whatever you want for them. I use mine for building logging roads and too much trash get in the engine compartment.

Randy

That's a 1971 machine, 125 hp with D333c engine non-turbo. Looks to be a pretty straight machine.

I may have a parts manual for it, have to go digging. I'll let you know.

Hi, Rustybottoms88.
That is a neat looking machine. Congratulations and welkum too ther 4um.

I have just one suggestion - if you plan on using that tree pusher for any serious tree pushing, I would suggest that you wind the tilt braces on the angle blade pretty much right back in, certainly at least until you reach the end of the threads, to avoid bending the threads.

Otherwise, gopheritt.

Just my 0.0.2

You can't wind both tilt braces back on an angling blade since they are designed for tipping the blade from side to side, not backwards and forwards.
The blade cutting edges need turning, not changing, and new corner shoes.

Hi, Catsilver.
With all due respect, I would suggest that with a machine of that age, there would be a fair bit of wear in the center pivot pin of that blade that WOULD allow some substantial winding in of those tilt braces. I do stand to be corrected but only by the current owner. I would also suggest that winding them both back to where the blade was level with both close to tight would help to stop the blade tilting itself from side to side due to wear.

Just my 0.02.

I stand by what I said Deas, those braces are not designed to tilt the blade back, movement will be limited and only allowed by wear.

Hi, Catsilver.
You can stand by what you said and I will stand by what I said. See your last 3 words. And just in case you are in any doubt, I have had a little bit to do with angling blades with tilt braces in the past - beginning in 1965 - so I do have some idea of how they wear. With SIX wear points each side plus the center pivot pin, there is no small scope for wear.

Just my 0.02.

Hi, Catsilver.
You can stand by what you said and I will stand by what I said. See your last 3 words. And just in case you are in any doubt, I have had a little bit to do with angling blades with tilt braces in the past - beginning in 1965 - so I do have some idea of how they wear. With SIX wear points each side plus the center pivot pin, there is no small scope for wear.

Just my 0.02.