TD6

[ufdaland]

Thanks for the response to my post. Our use for it seldom required it to perform in mud. My son , brother and I were building a 3 unit earth sheltered, home in a rock ridge and we only encountered mud when building the road. I agree it may suffer in mud. We had cranes, dozers, wheel tractors, and trucks involved in the project. We have since sold the property and the machinery.

 

[Check Break]

I would think just the opposite. How many times have we seen track kits on skid-steers to make them float?


If you read up on the CAT conversion, you'll understand why it was a solution to a problem Florida farmers had in their sugarcane fields and one of the early Mudders.

 

[joeysmith]

I would think just the opposite. How many times have we seen track kits on skid-steers to make them float?


If you read up on the CAT conversion, you'll understand why it was a solution to a problem Florida farmers had in their sugarcane fields and one of the early Mudders.

Looks more built so they could go from field to road not necessarily just for mud
From the article


Clewiston Tractor, now Kelly Caterpillar, was contracted by the U.S. Sugar Corporation in Clewiston, FL to build rubber tire tractors to pull sugar cane wagons from the field to factory in the mid 1950s. The Caterpillar D6 9U tractor served as the base unit with a custom wheel conversion added.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

Well maybe we need to define certain conditions. It probably worked in greasy surface mud, with a hard bottom, but dragging the belly pan, pulling a trailer? At that point you couldn't even steer it, if it were still moving.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Well maybe we need to define certain conditions. It probably worked in greasy surface mud, with a hard bottom, but dragging the belly pan, pulling a trailer? At that point you couldn't even steer it, if it were still moving.

They did pretty good in the mud & grease. There was a Canadian version that was used for skidding logs, too.

Here's some info on the Sugar Baby variant:

Yellow Power!!

And a few pics for everyone from that site:

Mike

 

[joeysmith]

They did pretty good in the mud & grease. There was a Canadian version that was used for skidding logs, too.

Here's some info on the Sugar Baby variant:

Yellow Power!!

And a few pics for everyone from that site:

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Mike

Appears they sped them up in the process to from reading though there
Pretty neat solution to a problem

 

[Janicholson]

That's no TD6, either, more like TD18

,twin stacks, and filter system are 18 or 18A. Jim

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I've seen that somewhere before. Was it ever featured in Farm Show Magazine?

 

[used red MN]

I've seen that somewhere before. Was it ever featured in Farm Show Magazine?

@BarnyardEngineering, I don’t know if you used the “Threaded View” before the recent change, I did. Now we have no way of knowing what or who you are replying to unless you click the “Reply” button in the reply you are referencing or clarify/name who you are replying to. Multiple “its” have been brought into this thread.

 

[ufdaland]

There are many that say "That's no TD6 " without clarifying which they are referring to. All I can say as the one who started this subject and posted the picture 5th in the gallery. That is a TD6. I have replaced the engine and TD6 parts fit the engine that is in the pictured machine. I still haven't learned much about the origin but have enjoyed the discussion and learned a lot about like machines. Thanks for the posts.

 

[used red MN]

There are many that say "That's no TD6 " without clarifying which they are referring to. All I can say as the one who started this subject and posted the picture 5th in the gallery. That is a TD6. I have replaced the engine and TD6 parts fit the engine that is in the pictured machine. I still haven't learned much about the origin but have enjoyed the discussion and learned a lot about like machines. Thanks for the posts.

I think a few replies were made misunderstanding that the photo of the machine posted by rustred in reply 2 is the machine you are describing. If they look at my reply 18 they will see I explained it there. There are some “QuickDraw McGraws” on here that don’t seem to take the time to thoroughly read all the replies.
A lot of the confusion would have been avoided if you would have attached the photo directly to your opening post of this thread. I have explained the process in my reply 18.