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red reaper

09-15-2005 14:11:50




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I have a friend that has a cat row crop tractor thats setting in the weeds. I have never seen one before. It has rubber tires like any row crop.Has anyone on here ever seen one? looks to be made around the early 40"s maybe.Dont know what number or size,about the same size as a farmall M possibly.




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Joseph Turrisi

09-19-2005 17:22:54




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
According to my book on the history or cat from 1963 til 1982 they produce the 834 wheel type tractor dozer. in 1982 the 834 was replaced with the 834B and was still offered in 1998. It looks like a wheel loader with a blade instead of a bucket.



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2x4

09-18-2005 01:51:25




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
Cat sells them now under the Challenger name.



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Tom Graham

09-17-2005 18:11:25




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
Caterpiller made a small number of D-6's on rubber, specifically for Ringling Bros. Circus, and possibly for Royal American Shows. It seems track tractors chewed up pavement too much when these carnivals and circuses were setting up in parks and parking lots, so Cat specially made some rubber tire models; most of them were bare I believe, and were used for unloading circus/carnival wagons, etc from train cars. They weren't really too successful, so Cat took most of them back. In an attempt to resell them, they retrofitted them with dozers and sent them out to construction and loggers, and they weren't much more successful there. We have on on our showgrounds, LeSueur County Pioneer Power Association. www.pioneerpowershow.com

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ajk

09-17-2005 14:19:13




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
third party image

Someone posted this on the ACMOC board some time back.
AJ



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Yeoman

09-17-2005 10:38:07




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
Cat did sell some tractors, around fifty horse, with the D-4 engine in front of a moline GB chassis. I would not call it a row crop, but rather a standard or wheatland chassis. best, Phil



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big jt

09-16-2005 23:17:09




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
If it is a row crop it is something I have never seen.

Caterpillar did make a wheel tractor but it was specifically for a scraper. There is a catskinner in my area that has a couple but don't think they have run in quite a few years. Think they used a D6 or D7 engine but not sure. They are big and look heavy as you would expect anything cat to. Maybe someone with a little more knowledge will come up with a model number.

JM2CW

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Dan in Ore

09-18-2005 02:37:15




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to big jt, 09-16-2005 23:17:09  
We had one of those. It was a DW-10 and It had a number 15 scraper behind it. You could get a "belly-dump" or a water wagon to go behind it also (I imagine there were more attachments for it.). It had a D-6 engine, foot throttle and a double drum winch. It was a pretty good old tractor. Also, it was 2 wheel drive.

Dan



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Roy Suomi

09-16-2005 20:39:12




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
Come on , A 6 on rubber?? What would be the advantage?? Seems like a 6 would be a bit larger than a Farmall M sized tractor..That would be a lot of weight on rubber in fields, instead of tracks with lower ground pressure..But if you say so, Who am I to argue with you. I haven't been there to see this..



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Mudcat49

09-16-2005 13:35:40




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
The sugar farms here in Fla used to used rubber tired D-6's to snach sugar cane!



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Roy Suomi

09-15-2005 19:44:23




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to red reaper, 09-15-2005 14:11:50  
I've been to 2 county fairs and a heifer breeding but I ain't never heard of such a thing. I can't remember any caterpillar farm tractors.. Did someone put a caterpillar radiator on another breed of tractor?? If they did make this tractor, it's a rare one....



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george steele

09-17-2005 07:56:39




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 Re: caterpillar rubber tired tractor in reply to Roy Suomi, 09-15-2005 19:44:23  
How do you steer a d6 on rubber in the muck of the sugar cane fields?



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