Double Your Pleasure Double Your Fun ... Would Like To Have One

Wow, did you see the size of the ball & socket joint on assembly?

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D9G SxS Balderson Doubledude




He is a few more to look at.



www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRH3o9OR21I


www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BEyHpoXWQM


www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNyPCACXd2c

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Do you know where these shots were taken? Back in 1976, Dean Machinery, Cat dealer in Kansas City, Mo. put together a set like this and it went down in Kansas to level out old coal fields. Thanks for showing. Bill Walter

Hi, Bill Walter.
It would be a pretty fair guess that it could be the same pair. As I understand it, that is the sort of work that these angled-blade arrangements were built for and I suspect that not everybody would have had one of these in their backyard to level out the ground hog mounds or clean up the dog's 'history' before they mowed the lawn.

Here are links to the patents for this arrangement and to a history of Buster Peterson's patents:

http://www.petersoncat.com/sites/default/files/docs/US3661214.pdf Note the drawing with 3 tractors together. Buster thought BIGG.

http://www.petersoncat.com/history/busters-patents

It can be interesting just browsing through Buster's patents. It appears that he managed to keep himself fairly well occupied most of the time.

Here is one for a solid equalizer bar arrangement that makes a LOT more sense than what Cat is currently doing, pulling the front ends of the track frames in toward each other as the tracks oscillate.

http://www.petersoncat.com/sites/default/files/docs/US2863516.pdf

Just my 0.02.

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The problem with this type of set up was probably that is was mostly used in strip mining of coal in the mountains where they would just push all of the overburden over the hill and fill the hollers which would contaminate the creeks, streams, and rivers.

The government stopped this type of filling with waste years ago
and now they use the same waste fill to reclaim the uncovered land
after they take out the coal.

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I think you will find the "Doubledude" was a 1 of a kind special set of SxS D9H,s owned by Russell & Sons and built in conjunction with Balderson, the main purpose of the machine as they were to use it i am lead to believe is for rehab of old dragline spoil piles, with the big angle the blade was set at it could knock the top off the piles and cast great volumes off to the side, then smaller tractors could handle the final rehab.