caterpillar

not a truck ,but this is what i mess about with in my spare time :smiley:
slowly rebuliding it ,the engine and major componets have been done and it can do a full days work no problem :sunglasses:
straight exhaust ,65 hp max rpm 1650 with some real low lugging power :slight_smile:
its a 1962 D4c24a no 775
i have had it around 4 years now

cheers graham

Nice Toy :laughing:

Mates old man had a D2 to muck about with when we were kids.

nice toy mista :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

last one of them i drove was a D8H with high line tracks and Bog Masters on it :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :sunglasses:

When I left school in the early 70’s I worked for a company called Spencer King Contractors,Lamberhurst Farm,Dargate.I used to help out in the workshops,bit of welding,bit of bashing with a big hammer,but the best bit was going out with the low-loader as second man and picking up or dropping off the various bits of plant.
I became quite adept at loading everything from D4’s to D8’s over the side (took too long to drop the neck from the low loader) and it was great fun.
The oldest bit of kit they had was an old D8,with the canvas roof on four poles.It even had a donkey engine with a rope pull to start it!

Then there was the International Drott,with a ruddy great winch on the back,that we used for dragging D7’s and D8’s out of the mud when they’d got bogged down.If that wire rope had of snapped when you were doing that,it would of sliced your head off.No health & safety in them days,just great times and fond memories. :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :wink:

I remember,at the age of 15,driving an old Nuffield tractor and trailer all the way from Maidstone back to Dargate in thick fog,no lights,no nothing.

One of the guys there told me that,just after the M2 had opened,he was asked to drive a dumper (the little ones you used to see on building sites) from Dargate up to Chatham.So,seeing as Spencer King had done a lot of work on building the M2,nobody batted an eyelid as this guy drove all the way up the M2 in an old dumper along the hard shoulder with three 5 gallon drums of diesel in the bucket.

Can’t see it happening nowadays though.