SOMETHING UNUSUAL

A wonderful bit of dozer engineering? I am very grateful though that AC chose to use Baker straight blades and retain their design after they bought Baker. Nothing else in the business boils and rolls clay like a AC/Baker

Coke, I think it is the guys first time at running a dozer, he has 4 or 5 other videos and you can tell that he is learning, he picked a tough one to learn on but he will be a better operator for it. Love the HD5, I would like to find a narrow 5 or 6 locally to replace the 500 or maybe a TD6  that I could do a Perkins or John Deere engine conversion, there was actually a kit made for Canadian and British TD6's to install the Perkins. There are a number of HD5's here close by that have had the 3-71 conversion, boy does that make a runner, especially for a farming tractor. My HD7 has what I think is a Garwood Blade with tilt, not to bad a tractor, My neighbor was going to scrap it and a Case 480 backhoe, when I asked him about the hoe he said get it out of here and you have to take the Cat also, so I did, I drove them both home!!!!!!
Who has more fun that people on AC tractors?? Thanks; Tad

it was cold that day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1KGvx55kjc


Edited by Tad Wicks - 01 Sep 2011 at 9:40pm

Coke, that 5G looks identical to mine, cept I don't have the cable winch on the back. Cool videos, thanks. Darrel

Iv seen pictures of them but never a video.

Mac,  I grew up on Red and Yellow, my first farm tractor was TD-14 when I was 17 years old. I dubbed it the 13 lettered S.O.B., it went to scrap a few years back and I was glad to see it go. I have been a mobile mechanic for the last 30 years, plus custom harvesting and farming and having a fabrication and machine shop, I think I still have grouser marks across my knees from the 13 lettered SOB and all other makes, Cat is not any better, you need a 100 ton press to check the oil. I really did like the IH TD15 151 and I still have one, the 18 wasn't to bad either not as nice to run as D6 or 7. I have done clutches on IH 6 9 14 15 18, HD9,11 and Cat D6&7 and I can tell you , none of them are easy, just some easier than others, the 9 and 11 being by far the easiest that is why I made the switch to Persian Orange, they are just by far, an easier unit to maintain. The narrow 5 or 6 might be a bit big for my vineyard, 10 foot rows on 50% slopes and head trained vines just does not leave much room, I am using a IH500E that is about the right size, so a TD6 would be close to that, I have thought about a narrow D4 6U but I don't think much of a D4 or a D2 from a mechanics point and I can't stand the pony motor. The one tractor that I have never been around is the HD3, that perks my interest, because I need 3 point and pto and some of them came that way. The TD6 and 9 were pretty much the tractor of choice by the walnut growers on the West side of Paso Robles for years, and that is some steep, steep ground, they just seemed to perform better than anything else, even though they broke heads constantly.
 I don't know what I am going to do yet, the easiest thing is get rid of the grapes :-) There were a lot of HD15's and 16's in the area, many people tried to run them with the 2U and 13A D8's, they had the power but not the weight and many people did not like the Detroit engine, but they were happy to cuss and crank on a damp pony motor and tell me what a POS the AC's were. Everyone can have there own opinion and we know what they say about that. :-)  Tad


  who has more fun than people on AC tractors???

Bought the HD5G and then was looking for dozer and bought a D6-9U and had that for 3 years and learned all about repair, engine, steering clutches, transmission, then front ideler, track changed to D5 , segmented sprockets welded to D6 sprocket spokes , rear seals, and ring and pinion and another trany .. then traded for a HD4 as could not afford the D6 any longer .. Then HD5B dozer and tracks and final on one side and replace axle. 

No doubt when working on 13 lettered SOB's one does seem to conjure up a new vocabulary and you start inventing new words and have a new found appreciation for the folks that built them and how you wish they were there at the time and how far a greasy breaker bar could be fitted into their anatomy (insert smiley face here). The trick on the TD 6 and 9, is there is a specially built tool (homemade) to compress the clutch pack and then they come right out and yes the drum is timed to the driving flange on all IH models, I have no idea why and the fact that you have to completley deck them including trans lid and levers is way beyond me. I suppose they all have good things and bad things, it just seems as though the 13 lettered SOB's have more bad things. Tad

Huh,I've got two TD9s and a TD14a,they always run,the 9s pull good for they're size and the 14 has good balance for a gutless dog.

Edited by LoggerLee - 08 Sep 2011 at 4:55pm

Bwaahahah! Coke,you know they always use the equipment as an excuse.

Don, if I was ever a million dollars ahead, I would probably farm until it was all gone (insert smiley face here) , that being said, I will never have to worry about being ''ahead'' much less a million ahead, so I will just farm broke, with old toys, most every thing I have out-dates me or so it seems, but the best part, it's all paid for. My most favorite saying for this area is  " THIS IS THE BEST NEXT YEAR COUNTRY THERE IS'' (put another smiley face here) the other saying is "WE MIGHT HAVE TO SELL THE FARM TO FUND OUR ADDICTION''    all in fun, Thanks; Tad

orangeman, it doesn't matter if you have an HD41 or a remote controlled model dozer (manufacture of your choosing) notice I said model instead of toy(I will get back to that in a bit)anyway, it is not the machine, but the person willing to participate that makes this site a fun thing to do and don't let anyone tell you different. Now  "model vs toy" I build working models when I have spare time, check out this video of my model hit and miss, it took three years to build, all my own design. .750X.750 bore/stroke, built from scratch, I made everything there (including the spark plug) but the spark and ignition wire. Nowdays you can go buy a kit to build something similar for next to nothing with all the thinking done for you, I believe it took away from the craft. I have stills of a tractor/combine that I have been working on for some time also. Tad



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Yep, ya shoulda kept that gem Dale, especially bein hotrodded with a good 371. woulda been a very strong little loader.    Mac