Found maybe in Northern California as the top was made by Berglund Tractor , a Cat dealer in Napa and Willits, CA, and patented as a Selby Safety Top. The Cat is either a 2U or a 13A. Looks like it pulled a few logs in it's day!
Just like finding an old ship wreck underwater, these are great for future generations to find and learn the history on and see how things were done long ago. Great find!
I live in the woods around NH. When I was little, my family and I would sometimes take hikes around the area, and we saw a bulldozer like this, an abandoned logging truck from many years ago (30's-40's by the looks of it), and what looked like a racing car that was horribly rusted out, but still easily recognizable. I miss those days, and wish I could see them now. It's amazing what you can find out there.
What a shame to leave a poor old cat to rot in the woods, just think of all those hours of hard work she's done. Surely someone could resurrect her to her former glory... :-)
The dozer probably has serious drive line issues. They probably run it until it was flat azzed worn out. Unlike what some of you think... It's a hell of a hard job to repair those old dozers. It takes large specialized tools to break the drives down and a good knowledge of the cat brand. It's not the same as slapping a time belt on your Honda🙄 If it's a engine issue ? Caterpillar parts cost BIG money if you can even find them for the old girl. Cat mechanics get the big bucks 👍
D 8 ` 2` U, como e chamado no Brasil, o preferido do meu saudoso pai, que muito trabalhou nestes mastrodontes maravilhosos, ele teve dois, verifico que falta o motor de partida a gasolina e com manivela na parte superior e magneto, que fica ao lado esquerdo acoplado ao motor do mesmo, sem o mesmo ele nao pega, so empurrando, logo, para empurra-lo tem quer outro igual do mesmo porte, pega logo, pois e diesel com injecao de combistivel direta na s`percameras`, ajudei muito o meu a montar e desmontar essas reliquias, que nao e pra qualquer operador, tem que saber trabalhar com carinho ele, senao, estoura a embregem que e mecanica, alguns vieram com embreagem hidraulica, que facilitava mais o seu desempenho, meu pai foi pioneiro no Rio Grande do Sul, ensinou muita gente a operar e tambem a parte mecanica, etc., maneco - Porto Algre-RS - Brasil.
Cool! I put a few hundred hours on one just like that. Really efficient machine, 5 gallons per hour pushing shit up hills I could barely walk up. The thing was so loud, it roared and you could hear it for miles. Those winches are amazing, it has the strength to break that 3/4" cable with ease.
That machine was left there because at the time it would cost more to detail the undercarriage than the tractor was worth. 1935 is the probable date of construction. For those exsperts out there, all you needed to know on this beast was 2nd and high reverse. I ran one during the summer of 1967 or so and blew the clutch out of it. RD-8 was something special before the WW2, but it became rapidly obsolete in the 50s. Very reliable engine, but you need to check the fuel and fill up the oil daily.
That's cool and I can't believe everyone says scrap metal. Unlike today things don't rust out and break in a few years they lasted for forever if you took care of it. There is no electronics or anything to go bad you could definetly get this to run and drive with some time and a lot of greese and oil
fucking true in soviet era they made very good things that would last not a lifetime but even grandchildren of your grandchildre would have it if you took care of it
my dad was talking about it in the summer b/c he bought a Komatsu to replace it and its smaller. he just misses the old school machine. i was just looking on youtube to refresh my memory on what it looked like and i stumbled upon this video. it was left in the bush like 15 years ago or longer, in BC trying to make a logging road. it could be it and may not be. all i know its a old D8 that was abandoned and it looks like the area
I seen these fire up with a new set of batts.. the grousers are wore almost down to slicks, I bet the bull gears are pretty much round. and usually it's one of those cost X amount to haul it out for the end of season, or leave it parked it's not going anywhere. a season goes by and co. lost contract or went under. yes the machine still holds enough value to not be left to rot. scrap value, parts for other who still own and maintain this make.
Yeah. We sold ours and the guy who bought it ended up abandoning it. Not worth a huge amount and certainly not worth transporting any distance if you have to pay someone to move it. Too much stuff worn out or missing, especially for an old machine where finding parts will be a struggle. A pity as they are awesome machines and sound great.
I wished I was closer, I have a 2 cyl pony and clutch out of a 1953 cat D8 that will fit right in. I bet it would fire right up and drive out of there if it still has diesel in it.
I LIVE UP IN THE UPPER MICHIGAN WHERE BETTER HALF OF A YR IT SNOWS THIS IS LOGGING COUNTRY. I AM CALLED OUT AT LEAST 3 TO 4 TIMES A YR TO START AND GET RUNNING AN OLD CRAWLER DIESEL TRUCK OR MAGNETO POWERED TRACTOR . I LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE BRING THIS OLD EQUIPMENT BNACK TO LIFE
I work in a scrap yard they get a d7 like this in the other day and it still setting there I am trying my best to have them keep it from it faith if someone don't buy it soon I have a funny feeling it will see the inside of the Shredder so sad to
Talk about this when I was a kid I found an old steam locomotive sitting up to its hubs in dirt in the woods. It had turned over a rail & rolled down a gully back in the teens on a logging railroad that went out of business. I played on the thing back in the early 1950s and don't remember what happened to it. I hiked back down in there with my son in the late 1970s and it was long gone - no trace. Somebody must have wanted the scrap iron pretty bad to drag that monster out of there!
Yeah.You may not like the phrase"scrap iron" but that old beast is worth quite a bit in scrap.When iron is $200 a ton you could imagine the dollar signs rotating in a mans head.
All these people here who think it would take an hour's work to start this thing are delusional. This tractor is thrashed. The undercarriage has left the building. Leave her alone. There's nothing shameful about a piece of old equipment taking a well-deserved rest.
HELL YEA!!!! you cant kill these old Caterpillars. they just keep on working and working. if he cant he should contact Caterpillar and get them to take it.
Yes so would I. I've always wanted one but there is always something else that I need as well, I know where there is one and the owner said I could have it for free but when he told me what it would cost to get it going I left it there. but that has not stopped me from wanting one. to me they would be the best toy ever made.
I found an abandoned barn, some OLD logging trucks and some sort of old racing car in my woods. Take a day and walk around the woods and keep an open eye out. History is EVERYWHERE.
More than you know, after the building of the Hwy #1 during WW2 to get supplies to Alaska, they just left or tied a rope to the control stick an sent them into the woods because it was too expensive to bring them back home, to this day people still find rollers, cats, & tractors in the woods or lakes. Many do still run after some TLC.
This poor old Cat has been beaten to death over the years. The undercarriage is shot. That's why it was abandoned. It costs a fortune to replace the undercarriage so if it had some issues with the motor, transmission, or final drives then it's not worth pouring a bunch of money into. It is a shame to see it sitting there, abandoned.
@TUTUZGARAGESERVICE you got that right we used to have one we moved more dirt with that dam D8 than ive ever seen in my life. start it up and take it home i would if i knew where it was at
Nearly all forest machinery gets re-painted every 2-3 years here in Canada, it's an easy way to spot where the hydraulic leaks are and whatnot. Not trying to insult you or anything, it was just a though that someone could have repainted it another color :)
if your in the kootenay area of BC, thats my dads old D-8. LOL, I'm dead serious! it died deep in the woods while he was making trail for helilogging. i don't know the whole story but he left it and bought another one. probably left it in the early to mid 90's
10 bucks says a hand carry tool box, some wd-40, carb/brake clean and a couple gallons of diesel would get it going again right in the woods...and some gas for the pony engine.
It is not in that bad of shape. The tracks are the worst part might have a few days freeing up the controls. What happened with the pony motor to good to leave there. You can sell it for more for parts then having it become a for in car and keep its history going.
The bill to load and hual that home would cost more than it would to buy a pup and get it running again. Who knows what else is wrong with it. Still a cool find though.
Probably left there by a logger operating on a shoestring and when it broke down he didn't have the $$ to repair or remove it. Tracks are a little worn and the winch looks well used, but the blade is in fine shape. Its worth a lot in scrap - but getting it off the mountain could cost a small fortune.
That is incredible. I love learning about industrial history such as this. I tried looking up the CAT d8 online, but the information is vague. I guess I need to go old-school and pick up a book...which is fine by me.
Where did you find this beauty? I'm really curious, cuz my dad told me how my uncle would go and hide machinery out in the bush, so the repo dudes couldn't find them. Lol To this day, some of the banks are still looking for them, but most have given up on them. Yeah, my uncle is quite a piece of work. He even went as far as to dismantle some of the machines, one of the repo guys saw a the corner of a dozer blade sticking out of a gravel pit, so they dug it out and took it back. But they never found the rest of it! XD LOL
if i found one of these in the woods i wouldnt be able to let it sit there and rust away if the engine wasnt seized id try my hardest to get it running and bring that shit back to my house.
How did that get there? is there any highway or construccion close? Perhaps the construccion company needed new machinery, and they hide that to get the insurance payment haha
it most likely suffered a fatal blow....maybe the trans or the clutch is toast....no way to fix that on site....the pony motor was the easiest item to salvage....the rest is junk.
@Fireheart528 It looks to be in good shape.I know a man that would love to have that machine and he could get it running too.I think Cat didn't have hydraulics on their machines until after WW2.As for moving it out of there.That wouldn,t be to hard for somebody who knows what they are doing and has the right gear.As for getting in trouble,that is what night is for.To hell with the Forest Service.
I'd scrap the shit out of it... I'd feel really bad for doing it, too. If I could drive it out, I wouldn't do it, but... If it don't work, it's worth about ten times in scrap.
Yeah there is some money sitting right there. Problem is getting it to the scrap yard if you dont have the proper equipment or tools its gonna be damn near impossible
Found maybe in Northern California as the top was made by Berglund Tractor , a Cat dealer in Napa and Willits, CA, and patented as a Selby Safety Top. The Cat is either a 2U or a 13A. Looks like it pulled a few logs in it's day!
Wow pretty good guess it is up in Northern California
Probably from the era when my dad was logging - '50s. What a beast!
Just like finding an old ship wreck underwater, these are great for future generations to find and learn the history on and see how things were done long ago. Great find!
Great find, you must have been smiling! Poor old thing, laid to rest where it had done its best.
I live in the woods around NH. When I was little, my family and I would sometimes take hikes around the area, and we saw a bulldozer like this, an abandoned logging truck from many years ago (30's-40's by the looks of it), and what looked like a racing car that was horribly rusted out, but still easily recognizable. I miss those days, and wish I could see them now. It's amazing what you can find out there.
What a shame to leave a poor old cat to rot in the woods, just think of all those hours of hard work she's done. Surely someone could resurrect her to her former glory... :-)
It's interesting how something as big and valuable as that would be just left behind. Like WTF?
True but it happens
The dozer probably has serious drive line issues. They probably run it until it was flat azzed worn out.
Unlike what some of you think...
It's a hell of a hard job to repair those old dozers.
It takes large specialized tools to break the drives down and a good knowledge of the cat brand.
It's not the same as slapping a time belt on your Honda🙄
If it's a engine issue ?
Caterpillar parts cost BIG money if you can even find them for the old girl.
Cat mechanics get the big bucks 👍
D 8 ` 2` U, como e chamado no Brasil, o preferido do meu saudoso pai, que muito trabalhou nestes mastrodontes maravilhosos, ele teve dois, verifico que falta o motor de partida a gasolina e com manivela na parte superior e magneto, que fica ao lado esquerdo acoplado ao motor do mesmo, sem o mesmo ele nao pega, so empurrando, logo, para empurra-lo tem quer outro igual do mesmo porte, pega logo, pois e diesel com injecao de combistivel direta na s`percameras`, ajudei muito o meu a montar e desmontar essas reliquias, que nao e pra qualquer operador, tem que saber trabalhar com carinho ele, senao, estoura a embregem que e mecanica, alguns vieram com embreagem hidraulica, que facilitava mais o seu desempenho, meu pai foi pioneiro no Rio Grande do Sul, ensinou muita gente a operar e tambem a parte mecanica, etc., maneco - Porto Algre-RS - Brasil.
Cool! I put a few hundred hours on one just like that. Really efficient machine, 5 gallons per hour pushing shit up hills I could barely walk up. The thing was so loud, it roared and you could hear it for miles. Those winches are amazing, it has the strength to break that 3/4" cable with ease.
That machine was left there because at the time it would cost more to detail the undercarriage than the tractor was worth. 1935 is the probable date of construction.
For those exsperts out there, all you needed to know on this beast was 2nd and high reverse. I ran one during the summer of 1967 or so and blew the clutch out of it. RD-8 was something special before the WW2, but it became rapidly obsolete in the 50s.
Very reliable engine, but you need to check the fuel and fill up the oil daily.
That's cool and I can't believe everyone says scrap metal. Unlike today things don't rust out and break in a few years they lasted for forever if you took care of it. There is no electronics or anything to go bad you could definetly get this to run and drive with some time and a lot of greese and oil
fucking true in soviet era they made very good things that would last not a lifetime but even grandchildren of your grandchildre would have it if you took care of it
poor cat worked hard its houl life just to left in the woods :(
my dad was talking about it in the summer b/c he bought a Komatsu to replace it and its smaller. he just misses the old school machine. i was just looking on youtube to refresh my memory on what it looked like and i stumbled upon this video. it was left in the bush like 15 years ago or longer, in BC trying to make a logging road. it could be it and may not be. all i know its a old D8 that was abandoned and it looks like the area
I seen these fire up with a new set of batts.. the grousers are wore almost down to slicks, I bet the bull gears are pretty much round. and usually it's one of those cost X amount to haul it out for the end of season, or leave it parked it's not going anywhere. a season goes by and co. lost contract or went under. yes the machine still holds enough value to not be left to rot. scrap value, parts for other who still own and maintain this make.
Yeah. We sold ours and the guy who bought it ended up abandoning it. Not worth a huge amount and certainly not worth transporting any distance if you have to pay someone to move it. Too much stuff worn out or missing, especially for an old machine where finding parts will be a struggle. A pity as they are awesome machines and sound great.
It would cost more than it's worth to restore it. Leave the old girl alone. She earned the right to rust in peace.
I wished I was closer, I have a 2 cyl pony and clutch out of a 1953 cat D8 that will fit right in. I bet it would fire right up and drive out of there if it still has diesel in it.
Maybe take out injectors,squirt in some stuff,n whirl her over that way first.
It wont just start up that old diesel wont let that thing run you would be better off probably pulling it out and restore
I LIVE UP IN THE UPPER MICHIGAN WHERE BETTER HALF OF A YR IT SNOWS THIS IS LOGGING COUNTRY. I AM CALLED OUT AT LEAST 3 TO 4 TIMES A YR TO START AND GET RUNNING AN OLD CRAWLER DIESEL TRUCK OR MAGNETO POWERED TRACTOR . I LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE BRING THIS OLD EQUIPMENT BNACK TO LIFE
Wow, what a great find. I'd definitely salvage that thing if you have the means.
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I would rebuild this D8, brink it back to life, selling to scarp is waste.
I work in a scrap yard they get a d7 like this in the other day and it still setting there I am trying my best to have them keep it from it faith if someone don't buy it soon I have a funny feeling it will see the inside of the Shredder so sad to
Looks like the beginning of a Horror movie, but it would start right up possibly.
Talk about this when I was a kid I found an old steam locomotive sitting up to
its hubs in dirt in the woods.
It had turned over a rail & rolled down a gully back in the teens on a logging
railroad that went out of business.
I played on the thing back in the early 1950s and don't remember what
happened to it. I hiked back down in there with my son in the late 1970s
and it was long gone - no trace.
Somebody must have wanted the scrap iron pretty bad to drag that
monster out of there!
This is a cutter, the engine has to be overloaded, and the body of the cutter is overloaded. In Syria, there is an expert for over-cutting the cutter.
That's a neat find. My uncle had an old cable-dozer 2U, marginally newer than this old beast. I'd leave it as a curiosity for future generations.
i have seen stuff like that left in the woods by loggers and then 10 years later they come back and get it. it looks like its in pretty good shape
I'd get that thing running or die trying. History is too damn cool to ignore, especially with that thing!
Yeah.You may not like the phrase"scrap iron" but that old beast is worth quite a bit in scrap.When iron is $200 a ton you could imagine the dollar signs rotating in a mans head.
All these people here who think it would take an hour's work to start this thing are delusional. This tractor is thrashed. The undercarriage has left the building. Leave her alone. There's nothing shameful about a piece of old equipment taking a well-deserved rest.
HELL YEA!!!! you cant kill these old Caterpillars. they just keep on working and working. if he cant he should contact Caterpillar and get them to take it.
Cool. Thank's for sharing this with us.
Yes so would I. I've always wanted one but there is always something else that I need as well, I know where there is one and the owner said I could have it for free but when he told me what it would cost to get it going I left it there. but that has not stopped me from wanting one. to me they would be the best toy ever made.
Nice find still a good machine today when running. Phil
Damn. I love finding stuff like this, I'd get it running, I'd have too.
So cool to be that complete and too know/wonder what the story was.
Big iron cost a bunch of cash 💰 to move , sometimes more than the machine is worth .
I found an abandoned barn, some OLD logging trucks and some sort of old racing car in my woods. Take a day and walk around the woods and keep an open eye out. History is EVERYWHERE.
i just cant believe anyone would just *leave* it there .
i ill never let him alone until i got it started !! damn i love that machine !
More than you know, after the building of the Hwy #1 during WW2 to get supplies to Alaska, they just left or tied a rope to the control stick an sent them into the woods because it was too expensive to bring them back home, to this day people still find rollers, cats, & tractors in the woods or lakes. Many do still run after some TLC.
This poor old Cat has been beaten to death over the years. The undercarriage is shot. That's why it was abandoned. It costs a fortune to replace the undercarriage so if it had some issues with the motor, transmission, or final drives then it's not worth pouring a bunch of money into. It is a shame to see it sitting there, abandoned.
@TUTUZGARAGESERVICE you got that right we used to have one we moved more dirt with that dam D8 than ive ever seen in my life. start it up and take it home i would if i knew where it was at
Nearly all forest machinery gets re-painted every 2-3 years here in Canada, it's an easy way to spot where the hydraulic leaks are and whatnot.
Not trying to insult you or anything, it was just a though that someone could have repainted it another color :)
if your in the kootenay area of BC, thats my dads old D-8. LOL, I'm dead serious! it died deep in the woods while he was making trail for helilogging. i don't know the whole story but he left it and bought another one. probably left it in the early to mid 90's
Man what a nice machine left to rot, please tell me you fixed it up? Pleas dont junk it, a vivid collector would actually pay you for it.
such a beauty
dude awesome find
So,that's where I left her!Thank you for telling me!
That's pretty cool finding old treasure like that
Huge restoration project potential here.
awesome!!!!!!!!!! u should tell people that fix old equiment about all the stuff u find
What a shame.
10 bucks says a hand carry tool box, some wd-40, carb/brake clean and a couple gallons of diesel would get it going again right in the woods...and some gas for the pony engine.
If that is where I think it is, the FS did a big clean up in that area, it's probably been scraped sadly
@Tylerscummins Yeah, me too! The US Forest DisService will eventually find it. They ruin everything up here.
a shame it's just sittin there rottin away. . .
There won't be much left of it in say... 10,000 years.
It is not in that bad of shape. The tracks are the worst part might have a few days freeing up the controls. What happened with the pony motor to good to leave there. You can sell it for more for parts then having it become a for in car and keep its history going.
The bill to load and hual that home would cost more than it would to buy a pup and get it running again. Who knows what else is wrong with it. Still a cool find though.
It's at home with real live creepy crawly things,
Probably left there by a logger operating on a shoestring and when it broke down he didn't have the $$ to repair or remove it. Tracks are a little worn and the winch looks well used, but the blade is in fine shape. Its worth a lot in scrap - but getting it off the mountain could cost a small fortune.
That is incredible. I love learning about industrial history such as this. I tried looking
up the CAT d8 online, but the information is vague. I guess I need to go old-school and pick up a book...which is fine by me.
i got a d7 dozer running of about the same running it had been sitting for about 20 years
Where did you find this beauty? I'm really curious, cuz my dad told me how my uncle would go and hide machinery out in the bush, so the repo dudes couldn't find them. Lol
To this day, some of the banks are still looking for them, but most have given up on them.
Yeah, my uncle is quite a piece of work. He even went as far as to dismantle some of the machines, one of the repo guys saw a the corner of a dozer blade sticking out of a gravel pit, so they dug it out and took it back. But they never found the rest of it! XD LOL
+Sarah Melchior my dad had me hide trucks and tractors in the woods for the same reason
In Kenya, loans on machinery can cost 3 times. Best buy your own.
Haha. Love this.
A case of beer and I bet we could get it running in an afternoon!
if i found one of these in the woods i wouldnt be able to let it sit there and rust away if the engine wasnt seized id try my hardest to get it running and bring that shit back to my house.
Too cool. I love find stuff like this!
I often thought simular looking at ruins of modelTs and houses in the wastelands
How did that get there? is there any highway or construccion close?
Perhaps the construccion company needed new machinery, and they hide that to get the insurance payment haha
@jim330rifle im with you %100 lets go get it i need this for clearing some trails for a dirtbike track after that you can have it.
since there's no pony motor it would have to be roll started
You could come up with a pony motor somewhere they produced lots of them.
take more then a hour to get it running. The pup motor is gone so it has no coolent in the engine. and no way to start it.
How does someone forget something like that?
I bet you it's still there 9 years later.
About 16.5 tons, according to the Caterpillar history books.
this would be nice to restore it and put it right in front of your shop
I am sure there is a insurance company looking for that cat!
Very good 💪
There is a video on CZcams where someone used a hydrulic motor driven from the PTO of a tractor, in place of the pony, to start a D9.
I bet you if you fucked with it for a while it would start lol id do it and sell it
thats an awesome find
if that was in newfoundland it would have been driven out of the woods by now lol
If it had been out there for years those shiny tracks would
have rusted by now.
what a pice of history, take it
I'd love to find one of those out back.. Summer project making it run ;)
holy shit what a find!!! and to think you almost missed it smh...
One look at the 'racing slicks' tracks..and there's your answer as to why this was left here
After seeing your videos, I checked my woods and most of the state land for cool shit.......no luck yet
Want!!! I would go get that thing running!
dam found my old unit starter up boys shell take ya home
it most likely suffered a fatal blow....maybe the trans or the clutch is toast....no way to fix that on site....the pony motor was the easiest item to salvage....the rest is junk.
Score! wish you could build it up drive it home :) a real treasure!
@Fireheart528 It looks to be in good shape.I know a man that would love to have that machine and he could get it running too.I think Cat didn't have hydraulics on their machines until after WW2.As for moving it out of there.That wouldn,t be to hard for somebody who knows what they are doing and has the right gear.As for getting in trouble,that is what night is for.To hell with the Forest Service.
Did u guys get that big giant beast machine up and running ready to go hit the hills for gud work
bring it back to life...its easy....its a CATERPILLARPOWER
These things made America
With a little work and putting a new pony motor on it you could probably drive it out of there.
that thing wouldn't last long around here, the scrappers would be hauling it off on four wheelers piece by piece...
I'd scrap the shit out of it...
I'd feel really bad for doing it, too.
If I could drive it out, I wouldn't do it, but...
If it don't work, it's worth about ten times in scrap.
Get that thing running! Free dozer. Those diesel engines are awesome
Yeah there is some money sitting right there. Problem is getting it to the scrap yard if you dont have the proper equipment or tools its gonna be damn near impossible
I would start hauling it out piece by piece. Parts on ebay and the rest in scrap. Cha ching.