Dad's old D 2 came back to life

Those are some great pictures......and the Cat a tribute to your Dad. Those scenes are timeless. Thanks for posting.

VM,

Thanks for posting the pictures of your 5U, is that a PTO shaft on the rear of the tractor?

David

VM,

Thanks for posting the pictures of your 5U, is that a PTO shaft on the rear of the tractor?

David

That little D2 sure can move those logs. Wonderful to see it active and healthy like a little tractor should be. Back East, where the stands of timber grow close (unlike here in the more open forests of the Rockies), D2s were used for logging because they could get between the old-growth trees. I understand that in the west larger tractors were often used. GWH

GWH

You are right, most of the logging crawlers out here are big. Our D 2 is just a farm crawler and is not armoured for logging, and doesn't have a winch. We just have to be careful not to get brush and limbs around the engine, and be pull logs from the drawbar. We cut shorter logs in thinning our stand of timber and the little Cat does OK. The pictures were all taken the last of March and first week in April this year. Here is another pictue of about all the log the little Cat could pull - this log was about 3 and a half feet on the butt and 17' long.

Great pictures and must be great memories for you captured on film.

Great set of pictures-----and looks like an extremely well cared for D2.

Real interesting to see the little D2 performing those "mansize" jobs working in the woods-----my parts tractor (1956 model) was a logging tractor out of south Mississippi. Don't believe it was cared for quite like your's has been.

You boys continue the care----looks like its got alot of life left in it. Bet there's an old man upstairs that's smiling all over.😉 Good luck!!!

Delta Dirt