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AC Mel 
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 Topic: HD20 DOZER IN ACTION
Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 10:27am |
Hi guys, thought I should post some pictures of 1 of our 3 HD2O cable dozers from our AC collection. This is a HD20H serial no. 5223, 1953 model. They were powerd by a 6-110 detroit. This one has a GARWOOD 281 rear cable control unit and a CARCO model 6094 cable blade. This model of blade has a 24V electric tilt function which we have seen before but not a working one. We plan on restoring it to working condition. Other than that everything works good it just needs new paint and decals.  
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Jeff(WD45-SATX-TN)
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 10:37am |
Thats quite a machine Mel. I really love the old dozers and crawlers. Just wish I had a way to keep and move one or two. My grand dad worked on those back in the 40s and 50s. Here is the closest thing I can own, my rendition in pencil.....
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AC Mel
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 10:45am |
Just in case any body thinks the tractor is to big for one person to run alone, there right. The black and white dude is HOOCH he dosen't miss any AC tractor rides if possible. ACs are his favorite tractors also. (cause thats all we have)  
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Jeff(WD45-SATX-TN)
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 10:52am |
Hey Mel. I was just going through my grand dad's old service records looking for any HD20 machines he might have worked on. About half done. Do you know where your machines might have originated? Most of what he serviced and demonstrated was located in Texas. Just curious if you knew the origination of your equipment. Be really neat to make a connection back to his records.
Jeff
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 11:01am |
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Its nice to sill see bigger dozers out working. Nice dozer
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 12:37pm |
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Nice. I may have played with this machine in the past.
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GlenninPA
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 2:29pm |
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Nice dog! My dog Jack would love for me to get a big dozer for him to ride on.
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AC Mel
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 6:52pm |
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Jeff, use that serial# I posted 5223 to see if that passed through your grandfathers hands. I'm sure any normal service work would have written down the serial no. then just like they do today. We got these machines from a farm in the N.saramento valley of Ca. in the town of Orland. We're not sure but we were told they had been there for many years probably back at least as far as the 1960s. one of them is better equiped for logging than farming. The other 2 have rear cable control units that could have been used for cable scrapers, a very popular thing for land leveling in the Sacramento valley back in the 1940s and 50s. We got a total of 5 of them at the time, 3 complete and 2 skeletons for parts. If you have any other HD 20 serial #s in the paperwork let me know and I'll check all the other numbers we have. Nothing would suprise me about where any of these machine have been. Also my brother and I really like your pencil rendition, we think it appears to be of a HD16 or HD21 AND we think it would look good on the office wall here with our other AC memrobilla for our collection, Mel
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Jeff(WD45-SATX-TN)
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 8:15pm |
Thanks Mel!
I ran through the entire book today, and did not find anything listed for an HD20. Tons of HD16s, HD6s, and several HD21s. Many motor graders as well. Yes he did document the machines well. Every page has the serial number of the machine, engine, wench, and any other component that had a serial number. Also had customer names, phone numbers, and what was done to the machine on each service call. It is truely a great treasure to have. If you like that drawing, you will get a kick out of my cartoon style creations of the AC crawlers.
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 8:18pm |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2011 at 8:27pm |
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That is really cool-the drawings and the real thing!!!
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AC Mel
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Posted: 01 Feb 2011 at 9:29pm |
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Jeff, love the cartoons too. Don't know if you know it, but to the trained AC eye we can see that you put detroit engines in these two cartoons. You were apparently working from a cross section of HD9s,15s,19s,or 20s. We have more pictures if you have more drawings or cartoons . Truth be known I'd even enjoy reading the work orders that your grandfather wrote, Mel
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Posted: 01 Feb 2011 at 11:02pm |
Those old HD20 crawlers had the 6-110 engines, I almost owned on of them but let it go because I figured the trucking would eat up another wad of money. But do have an old cable dozer HD19 with the old 6-71 in it... Starts so easy on a little car battery.
Also have an HD15 with hyd blade that needs lots of work but sure was fun to use while I had it running. It blew oil out of the stack. It would fill the air chamber an then when she went nose up or nose down, we had a run away. Figured the blower had the seals out of it.
Seeing your dog on the dozer reminded me of two of my dogs I had, they both had to ride the machines or be with in the truck.
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AC Mel
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Posted: 03 Feb 2011 at 10:33am |
JC,here's one of our HD15s although it has a cable CARCO dozer and front unit. It was born to log the big redwood here in N.Ca. We rescued it many years ago and it's resting comfotably here waiting for restoration. Everything on it works ok 
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CAL(KS)
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Posted: 06 Feb 2011 at 10:43am |
get that blade shined up haha... its good to see the big machines still working. im glad that my dad and myself arnt the only ones to love to work the big allis machines.
iv posted these before but i love to share. Hd10W, HD15, HD16. Hd15 now has a different blade and my Hd16 now has a brushrack on it.
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AC Mel
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Posted: 07 Feb 2011 at 7:08pm |
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Cal, love your pictures. Can you post some new pictures so we can see your different blade and your brush rake. Heck, start a new post, AC blades and brush rakes. I can follow up for you, Mel
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Posted: 13 Feb 2011 at 4:59pm |
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Mel, id be glad to post some more pics. If i said brush rake, i meant brush Rack, or canopy to protect the operator.. Dad is getting ready to put a "canopy" on his Hd15, ill get some newer pics of it and my HD16.
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Posted: 18 Feb 2011 at 2:29pm |
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Nice to see another AC crawler being kept from the scrap heap in California. I'm in NorCal too. I have a 1956 vintage HD-11S that saw a lifetime of use on a farm down in Salinas. It's still a great running machine.
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