SPOTLIGHT! Caterpillar Comic books

I had several of these but not the last 10-12 or so. I gave all mine to HCEA plus 7.5 lineal feet of info. catskinner

I was just a small kid and some guy gave me one of the comic books. I wish I knew where it got to. I remember well the illustration of how to pick up a large rock with a CAT and pan. Also working two dozers on a steep mountainside tied together with a cable looped through a block hooked to a large tree. There was instruction on slot dozing to improve efficiency. I could probably summon up some more info that was in there if I thought long enough. I loved that little comic book.

JanM

Hi, JanM.
C'mon, Man. Give with the goods. Ye Gods, even I can remember there being tips on how to take down big trees by building a ramp for extra reach and/or by digging down to cut the roots. Then there was a series of frames about back-filling pipe trenches by zig-zagging along the trench with successive loads until enough material feel into the trench to enable crossing it without damaging the pipes. This technique, if I remember rightly, involved 'ackshully' dragging some of the dumped material from previous loads ahead of the bowl and forcing the new load out into this dragged material to make some of the material run around the sides of the bowl thus forcing it into the trench. NOT a trick for beginners, methinks.

There were sections about pioneering new cuts with 'Catz-n-canz', about cutting batters in cut areas and forming them in fill areas, about working with sheep foot compactors and a host of other tips, probably mostly forgotten - or NEVER learned - these days. They even hadda section about working with Walt D73T's favorite drawn unit - - - - although with both wheels still on it. LOL.

Then there was a heap of stuff in those comics about working with a blade, including cutting a box for a road, spreading gravel, trimming and even blade-mixing.

Bring 'em on.

Just my 0.02.

Hi everyone,

First off, yes, Deas you hit the nail right on the head. Thanks for reminding me... :embarassed::embarassed::embarassed:

Now to the subject at hand. When I was a very young kid (remember I am 74 now) and before I was old enough to drive our Cats (we ended up with 2 - D7-3T's) I had access to many of those "comic books" and learned very well how to operate the Cats. I learned how to push over trees (like Deas mentioned) and all other items of driving a Cat. Actually I KNEW how to drive them way before I could drive one so it was NOT new to me when I "graduated" to the Cats, from the wheel tractors. 🤘🤘🤘

If I could turn time back I'd have kept them. DANG!

Hi, Walt D73T.
Am I to understand from your reply that you weren't psychic in your youth???????????? 🤘 😖mile: 😖mile:: embarassed:

A kew-ree-yuss mind would like to know. LOL

Just my 0.02.

Deas,

Yes it is spell check time. The correct spelling is Psycho! HA HA HA 😖mile:😖mile:😖mile:😖mile:

Hi, Walt D73T.
"Psycho"????????????? I guess that would depend pretty much entirely on where it was being viewed from. I suspect that the great majority of the un-afflicted viewing us from outside the yellow fever NON-recovery ward would consider us psycho to at least some degree, maybe even completely so.. Even some of us within said ward may occasionally 'kwestyun' ourselves. But how many who enter said ward do you ever see leaving other than in a box?

And if we could see into said box as they were leaving, I suspect that, in the great majority of cases, you may well see their ears in danger of falling into their grins.

How many of the un-afflicted do you think would be departing this mortal coil in a similar state?

So just WHO are the psycho ones? LOL.

A kew-ree-yuss mind would like to know.

Just my 0.02.

Can remember most of them. Received a lot of them while serving in the CB's. Someplace in the bowels of this place I live they will be discovered after I am gone. Pretty sure I've got the one on how to build a sanitary landfill with a scraper digging cells and piling the first dirt to the side and then use the dirt from the second to fill the first. Then use fill from first to fill to fill the last one no matter how far away it was.. Also had short training safety films about a guy called "Primitive Pete". Always had one or two guys in every outfit that fit that role. All you had to do was call them "Pete" and they knew what you were talking about. Garlic Pete is not "Primitive" but they sure do resemble each other. Also used to get a little magazine from Letourneau that was mostly about scrapers. Gave me lots of ideas about what you could do with a scraper. First scraper job was building a golf course that T'd off right behind the Captains house at Port Hueneme with little Letourneau CR electric pulls. If you weren't shifting gears or flipping toggle switches you could listen to the Jimmy scream.

i saw them when i was at head quarters they had lost of them under glass in a big long hall. wish i had time to read them all as like you guys said there is very good info in them. i took pic of some of the info. a long shot but to you think we could get reprints or pdf copy ? so us young pup's can have some good bed time reading books.