Cat with a steering wheel?
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Topic: Cat with a steering wheel?
Posted By: JohnCO
Subject: Cat with a steering wheel?
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 10:30pm
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I keep seeing an ad on TV, something about Medicare coverage with a couple trying to figure out how to get through the maze. Woman says follow me, next scene they are in a dozer with a steering wheel. Never seen a new machine with a steering wheel. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 4:49am
| Early AC (monarch tractors) had a steering wheel... |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 6:41am
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As did some post WW2 Fiat dozers |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 6:53am
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The Cat rubber track tractors had steering wheels. But yeah, TV producers take a lot of liberties. As I recall, it is an actual dozer in that commercial. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: matador
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 7:17am
| The Cat 45 tractor I've driven has a steering wheel. The only difference from a normal tractor wheel is that if you turn this wheel 45 degrees left, the tractor will whip 45 degrees left. You barely nudge the wheel, but it's definitely a wheel |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 10:19am
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This ones a D5 size with steel high drive tracks. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: TramwayGuy
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 10:26am
| It is an ad for United Healthcare. I noticed the wheel the first time I saw the ad; and tried to find the same dozer model by googling it. I think it is possible that the machine does actually have a steering wheel. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 11:04am
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here you be for the ad your talking about. and I noticed the wheel the first time I seen the ad too. [TUBE]b_EXqQki1C8[/TUBE] ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 11:24am
| I'm a thinking Chinese junk!!! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2018 at 5:53pm
Might also be a technical mock up, they get the actors in a car, then green screen them into the dozer, AD co's love doing sh!t like that, then they can charge more...
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2018 at 10:16am
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I was thinking something similar Dave, maybe using a wheel loader for the cab shot and a dozer for the outside shots. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2018 at 11:12am
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If memory serves, they did the same commercial a few years ago with a good size wheel loader. Maybe chopped it up to use with the latest ad.
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2018 at 3:17pm
| How about seating for 3 people in a dozer |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2018 at 6:27pm
I think perhaps you have stumbled upon the truth...
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TimNearFortWorth wrote:Posted By: 1955CA
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2018 at 7:43am
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Kinda like the show American Loggers (as well as many others on tv). They show a guy operating a Cat skidder, then the shot goes to him inside, then they show the outside shot again and he's in a Deere. Then he's in a Cat, and now look it's a Deere! Or Highway Through Hell when they are in a Western Star with a Peterbilt interior, LOL. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2018 at 8:01am
| AHH The Wonderful Life of the Hollyweirds!!!!!!! Make it up as you go!! LOL! |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 9:32am
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I drove a high track 5 a few years ago for a couple hrs.....I don't remember for sure now but I don't think it had any hand control for steering.I think it had brake pedals for steering. Left hand worked trans and rt hand worked blade. What I know for sure is that it was alot different to operate than the old D6C.
Talked to brother over weekend who runs that 5 some.He said left hand steers and direction of travel.Rt does blade. One brake pedal and decellarator
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 9:35am
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Last D6R I sat on had a Tiller style control, only for left hand to drive it, right side joystick for blade. I am thinking a no-brain advertising exec came up with the steering wheel, just a fantasy tractor. |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 4:43pm
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DMiller, I think you might have the answer. Most people would be freaked out to see a machine without a steering wheel. Most people don't have an idea of how machines are controlled. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 4:45pm
| JQ Public would have a conniption if they had to drive a real HD machine on their own or perish. |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 5:06pm
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Haha that commercial gets me every time. On jay Leno garage they showed how they take this funky car that's just a electric chassis with these funky skue things that they can make the camera see whatever car they want. Just another reason not to be leave what you see on tv |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 5:22pm
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I have never seen a cab that would set 3 people shoulder to shoulder... WHY ? ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 5:34pm
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I love that commercial. Real safety focused too. A guy just walks out of a maze that the tractor operator cant see and they plow through right behind him! What if his wife was 10 steps behind? Squesish! Sorry! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2018 at 6:56pm
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I've seen that commercial many times but never paid enough attention to it to realize it had a steering wheel. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 10:24am
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First time i seen it - said what did i just see ? 2 separate machines - spliced into one commercials and with the hope people are not smart enough to catch the flubs - or smart enough to figure out how to shop for health insurance ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |