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omahagreg · Dec 29, 2014

My Dad was a preacher. His first church was VERY rural, near Arena North Dakota. It was one of those-parsonage, church and cemetery on the same lot! Needless to say, we got LOTS of snow. Here is one of the farmers that came to move snow-must be between 1963 and 1970-as that is when we moved away!

jm. · Dec 29, 2014

Notice he has a muffler on the stack near the operator and straight pipe on the front .

gtractorfan · Dec 29, 2014

Hope the guy knew where things were, that thing would move grave stones and not notice!

Alan K · Dec 29, 2014

Nice photo.

oleclint · Dec 29, 2014

Thank you for that great photo. That scene would be hard to duplicate today with our modern equipment. Lots of smoke blowing out the stacks, no OSHA roll over cage or cab. Not much of a Heat Houser, The op. just setting out there in the cold
doing what has to be done. No hard hat either. An excellent picture of days gone by. BTDT. Only with a Cat D 2. Thank you. clint

John B. · Dec 29, 2014

Neat photo. Thanks for sharing. First thing that
caught my eye is the two exhausts.

Billy NY · Dec 29, 2014

You don't see many of these (TD 18A?) with cable/power control units, most seem to have hydraulic dozer kits, or bull grader as they called it too. Nice old photo for sure.

Dean · Dec 30, 2014

Close friend of mine had a TD 18 (hydraulic blade) as well as mots of spare parts.

Like everything else he ever owned, he destroyed it though it took longer than it took to destroy most of his other stuff.

Quite a winch on the pictured one.

Dean

Dick2 · Dec 30, 2014

BTDT. We had an HD7 with hydraulic dozer; just bundled up and sat out in the cold.

Neighbors had a D7 with a wooden factory cab that was large enough to put a small stove off in one corner that would keep it nice and warm in the cab.

sms · Dec 30, 2014

My dads sawmill had a UD 18 power unit. Can still
here it start up in my mind. Probably why my ears are
ringing now.

Bret4207 · Dec 30, 2014

(quoted from post at 00:54:21 12/30/14) Thank you for that great photo. That scene would be hard to duplicate today with our modern equipment. Lots of smoke blowing out the stacks, no OSHA roll over cage or cab. Not much of a Heat Houser, The op. just setting out there in the cold
doing what has to be done. No hard hat either. An excellent picture of days gone by. BTDT. Only with a Cat D 2. Thank you. clint

Fortunately neither OSHA or EPA has any say over a guy running an old crawler moving snow. But, give them time......

showcrop · Dec 30, 2014

(quoted from post at 20:54:21 12/29/14) Thank you for that great photo. That scene would be hard to duplicate today with our modern equipment. Lots of smoke blowing out the stacks, no OSHA roll over cage or cab. Not much of a Heat Houser, The op. just setting out there in the cold
doing what has to be done. No hard hat either. An excellent picture of days gone by. BTDT. Only with a Cat D 2. Thank you. clint

Clint, are you kiddin? he thinks he has died and gone to heaven. There he is making good pay, sitting on his butt, out in the fresh air with warm air blowing on him. probably two years earlier he was working in a factory with no air to breathe doing back breaking work with just one break at lunch time. Or he could have been shoveling snow by hand with a foreman yelling at him to move faster. it is all in the perspective.

farmboy48 · Dec 30, 2014

(reply to post at 19:43:25 12/29/14)

Greg, I was curious where Arena, ND was, searched for it on ghostsofNorthDakota website, found some old pictures of the town and church, in Burleigh county. Just a fast disappearing ghost town today.

Dick ND

Donald Lehman · Dec 30, 2014

Pop had a TD 14 with hydraulic blade. I really liked that old beast.

Tom OConnor · Dec 30, 2014

A fellow several years ago had a complete series of International Crawlers from the TD6 to the TD24 at the Tulare, California show. Very impressive. I had a hard time pulling up the TD6 but it is behind the TD14 picture.

Paul from MI · Dec 30, 2014

Back in the 80's our main 100 hp air compressor at the plant blew up. We rented a truck mounted portable that was powered with a UD18 engine. We ran the entire plant on it for about 2 weeks until we got the old Schramm compressor fixed. I can still hear it outside the back door bellowing away 24-7.

Frank 41 · Dec 30, 2014

I ran a TD 18 in the early 60's east of Goldfield, IA. Had 83 inches of snow that winter and was working on a road that had never been opened because no one lived on it. Had hyd blade and there were telephone lines in the fence row. Had to watch the blade from catching the lines.

The good old days.

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