Hand Start Cat 65 Caterpillar

Cat 65 being started by hand at the 2009 Golden Harvest Day

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Caterpillar
• Cat
• 65
• Sixty
• Five
• Crawler
• Golden
• Harvest

[s46d45m17]

Very cool, a guy I knew found a d2 sitting in a field and bought it it must have sat for 25 or 30 years and I think was made in the 40s, he brought it home and saw a kohler pony motor in it and he got it running and it started the 4 cylinder up and hell it runs fine, can't believe how much more durable this old stuff is compared to what they make today and NO china or japan crap here.

[farmboy00000]

@s46d45m17 I totally agree! Machines like this, made in America, Made America. Corporate greed, Career politicians bought out by special interest groups in Washington have sold out our country. It's tough to find anything made in America anymore. How would WW2 have turned out if America could not have supplied the amount of war materials needed by us and all the other countries fighting the axis powers? I don't think the results would have been the same. Thanks for watching!

[LinnTractorNut]

@farmboy00000 How will WW3 turnout if we need everything made overseas? When foreign firms buyout a factory here, the machinery they don't take is cut up for scrap to make sure no one else uses it. We all need to know how to build, maintain and operate basic equipment, and not let it all get scrapped.

[farmboy00000]

@LinnTractorNut I fear the outcome wouldn't be the same. It would take years to get back the manufacturing capacity we once had.

[bubub56]

i love these old dozers my grandpa has a cat from the 40s it has a 4 cylender desil and to start it is has a 2 cylinder 2 stroke gas engine that wen started spins the desil engine primers the injectors warms up the oil and lubreicates evrything then it starts it that old dozer has thousands of hours on it but has never had to be fully overhaled thanks to the small engine the engine is warmed up and lubricated before it is even started

[farmboy00000]

@lswasserm1 No this one is not a diesel. Just a huge gasoline engine, runs very well for it's age. These were made in 1932 & 33, Diesel was available but had not yet become as popular as they would later. Thanks for watch the video.

[lswasserm1]

@mmciau These are diesels. No magneto or spark needed.

[oldbuckshot]

@sm350bl Most tractors fire at tdc with no advance or retard so if you break your arm you seriously did something wrong. My great grandpa first told me this and he was around a long time and no broken arms

[784plb]

@farmboy00000 agreed about the flywheel! learn before you know what you are talking about!

[Wafflepudding]

My grandfather used to make a living fix Cat back in the 50's. He's a mechanic by trade, barely literate, so he couldn't adapt when they started using ECUs and such. He talks a lot about machines like these. Sometimes I detect a sadness in his tone, like he misses it.

Nice vid.