Land Clearing Cats? Pictures wanted

Hi mates,

I'm in the process of writing an article about land clearing done with bulldozers, treespears, anchor chains and similar. Such measures are quite unknown here in the Old World. Deas Plant really did a real good job and collected many forums post in ONE single thread over at www.classicmachinery.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=66 - which made "research" much easier. Thanks for this, Deas.

But as such land clearing operations are often done in remote areas - and operators often are the only persons who could take pictures but are somehow occupied - pictures are rather hard to find. So if any of you have photos of such actions, or machines standing still, please share here, if I can use them. I really appreciate this.
The article will be published in a year book about heavy equipment in German language from Podszun, an edition of 2.000 books will be printed.

Time for living, time for giving: I hope you enjoy the pictures of this old D9D I found in January 2019. I saw that dozer out of a coaster and had no possibility to stop by. I was realizing it had INSIDE mounted return rollers and so it's a pretty early niner. It took me about two weeks to get back to it to take some pictures of it. The blade conversion to hydraulics is "interesting". As I climbed into the cab, I saw maintenance stickers in german language and so this Cat had a first life somewhere in Central Europe. The undercarriage is in really good shape for such an old dozer! The timber canopy seems to be made by ROME, quite rare on a D9.

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The other pictures show a custom I'm building on the 1/48th scale CCM D9G. Deas once told us about a D9E with a 32 foot long tree spear and I took it as a measure for the one I fabricated out of brass. I even build a "pin-pusher" tool to remove the center ripping shank.

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I hope you enjoy these pictures, too. If you have anything to share, also stories about land clearing, please share.


Thanks in advance,
Max

Some of my D7E

Some others.

Hi ROME K/G,

thanks for sharing! These are really good pictures. The D7E with K/G blade is a real land clearing classic. I especially like the snow clearing picture. Interesting to see a CCU at the rear of your tractor, was she used to pull a dirt pan? She is in pretty well shape. I'm thinking about relocating the air intake on my model just as on your tractor.

Best regards,
Max

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Here is both of mine. The D7E has a Fleco rake on it that i welded onto a C-Frame it now get ran on the D7G primarily and i found a old Chicot rake that i run on the E. It totes it much better the Fleco was stupid heavy.

I have more pictures i just have to find them.

[quote="FatCatGotHot"]Hi ROME K/G,

thanks for sharing! These are really good pictures. The D7E with K/G blade is a real land clearing classic. I especially like the snow clearing picture. Interesting to see a CCU at the rear of your tractor, was she used to pull a dirt pan? She is in pretty well shape. I'm thinking about relocating the air intake on my model just as on your tractor.

Best regards,
Max[/quote]
Your welcome, I have another Rome cable lift offset disk it pulls and a Cat 435 pull scraper.

Found a few more. D7E, D7G and D7E. And may dad on his 17A.

Everything you need to know.https://archive.org/details/landdevelopmentg00barb_0/mode/2up

Local ad with pictures and short video.https://www.kijiji.ca/v-farming-equipment/grande-prairie/land-clearing-land-breaking-brushing-discing-d8-d9-plowing/1075177338

Dont think you can use a video in book but shows what it can do.
https://youtu.be/2CKSwImh7TY Tree had fence wire in it, so I split it up, rest went for firewood.
https://youtu.be/jdYvGkrBOX8 Log from big Burr Oak stump removal video.
https://youtu.be/04Kxk0DZdYI Stump splitting.
https://youtu.be/6TJuXFLcn44 Pulling the Rome TAW cable lift disk.
https://youtu.be/fhK2dQUxjt0 Restacking burn pile.
https://youtu.be/K4W5iUFZAS8 Clearing small fence row.

D6C 10K 373 in action in 1978.
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Craig