Non Hydraulic Front End Loader

   / Non Hydraulic Front End Loader #11  
If I remember right some of the old duce and a halfs were all fuel which meant they would run on anything combustible.

yes duece's were multi fuel.could run on gas, diesel or jet fuel. jet fuel an diesle are very similar however, if you are going to run gas in a duece and a half, it needs to be mixed with oil and you cant just throw gas in the tank and go. Its not hat big of technology for them. They are maily just diesel engine
 
   / Non Hydraulic Front End Loader #12  
Back in Highschool when my mother had gone back to college I got to use her library card at the college library. There was a book in the ag section that had been printed by Lincoln that and other metal working and supply companies. They had pictures and plans of blades and buckets. for farm tractors. The book was printed in the 40's. All the loaders were cable lifted off the belt pulley and they used a hoist system made from car and truck rear ends. The Traxcavator company that started making the loaders for Cat in the 40's used cables off the belt pulley as well.


I used to hang out in a junk yard when I was a kid that had a 5 old ginpole trucks out of Deuces. He would hoist the old cars up and puncture the tanks and oil pans and catch the oil and old gas in dums. He had it all mixed up gas and oil and would run in in the trucks. The old International dozers that started on gas were easy to start but they didnt like to run hot as the head was weakened by the extra set of gas valves.
 
   / Non Hydraulic Front End Loader #13  
The cable dozers worked well with a good operator , the early hydraulics had many problems..Those old tractors and machines had a really low compression ratio and would run on kerosene mostly , reliable but fussy. The current diesel is far better , at least the mechanical ones are..I have spun a few Rumely tractors over and the sheer pulling power is something to experience. They were not fast just kept pulling hard.
 
   / Non Hydraulic Front End Loader #14  
Can someone explain to me what is a deuce and a half? My dad had two dozers with cable operated blades,an International TD18-A and a Cat D6 8u series,which he taught me to run as a boy in the 60's.
 
   / Non Hydraulic Front End Loader #15  
Can someone explain to me what is a deuce and a half? My dad had two dozers with cable operated blades,an International TD18-A and a Cat D6 8u series,which he taught me to run as a boy in the 60's.

Two and a half ton military truck. Look up M35 on Wikipedia.
 

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