Caterpillar Ten Restoration

looking good, real good.

Louis,

You did a great job on the TEN. I'm wondering how the modifications came about. Did your grandfather trim the seat back from square and add the carrier rollers? I see a few other changes too. Oh, and where is the CA mid-state fair held? Not familiar with it.

Jan

Very nice wide gauge TEN but it has me puzzled I haven't seen a TEN with that gas tank filler location. You did a nice job! Skinner

Congratulations, great work.
Regards
Mike

Paso Robles, Ca. That wide 10 looks mighty fine. Great job.

Tom

Thank you guys. The tractor actually has two serial numbers. the original Ten was PT3292, but the block cracked so my grandpa got another Ten PT4709 and swapped the 4709 engine onto the 3292 tractor. My grandpa bought this tractor with his pa when he was in high school and the used it to cut the edges of the barley fields with a JD No. 5 sickle bar. My grandpa and his pa, bought the Ten 2nd hand in the 40's and modified it to match their other Cats.

The original filler neck on the gas tank was removed, and patched and the filler was moved to the top of the gas tank.
The seat has been cut to match that of a Cat Twenty Two.
The fenders have been shortened to move the seat bucket forward and up over the PTO lever.
New holes were drilled to move the gauges to the other side of the dash board
A Temperature gauge from a WW2 Willy's was added
Oil filter was added
........and tons of other modifications......

If anyone is in the area she's a very unique tractor and i'd be more than happy to show 'er off.

P.S.
I have the carriage and transmission for the PT4709 Ten, The Grousers are BRAND NEW wide gauge, you can still clearly read "Caterpillar" in raised letters on them, grousers have no rounded edges. The track bushings have been rotated and show some wear, but the tracks don't have any slop between the pins and bushings. Anyway i'd like to restore this tractor to stock, red n' grey the whole nine yards, but don't have any parts for it except for what is in the pics... anyone have an engine?

mate Im not smart enough to no about all the mods but I am smart enough to no almost all farm machines have mods done by farmers either way that little crawler looks fantastic and you should be really proud of your work and thanks for sharing 👍 and its still in family and you no the history sounds pretty cool to me 😎

Paul