TD6

[ufdaland]

I posted a picture awhile back hoping to generate some info about the unit . It is the sixth picture in the gallery of a td 6 on wheels. Does anyone know the history of these units?

 

[rustred]

They were experimenting back then.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

Mostly these were skid-steer dozers, IH never built any that i know of, but Clark did, and maybe General Motors.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

That's no TD6, either, more like TD18

 

[jhwis]

Mostly these were skid-steer dozers, IH never built any that i know of, but Clark did, and maybe General Motors.

Grandpa and Dad had a TD-6 on tracks. I'm pretty sure it was an International. It was red. It had a Prentice loader. It was a handy machine. Had a gas engine that switched to diesel when it started.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

My Dad had 2 TD9s and a D4, all with loaders. But ever the business man, he got rid of the TD9s before I was old enough to stop it. Scrapped them, actually. I remember them sitting in the weeds, unused. Don't know why he kept the Cat, it's stuck as everything else was...

 

[55 50 Ron]

Grandpa and Dad had a TD-6 on tracks. I'm pretty sure it was an International. It was red. It had a Prentice loader. It was a handy machine. Had a gas engine that switched to diesel when it started.

switch that around please. The TD-6 had a diesel engine that was started on gas and switched to diesel after a brief warm-up

 

[jhwis]

Agreed. That's what I said.

 

[rustred]

That's no TD6, either, more like TD18

i did not say it was, i was just posting a picture of this experimental unit. and yes td18 as you can see the twin exhaust manifolds. i sure dont see his picture of that 6 ? how do we even know its a 6 ?

 

[rustred]

switch that around please. The TD-6 had a diesel engine that was started on gas and switched to diesel after a brief warm-up

it was a diesel engine that ran on gas till it warmed up enough to run on diesel. simple explanation of it but a lot more to it.

 

[Powered By IH]

This picture?

 

[jhwis]

Nice. Does that thing work well in muddy ground?

 

[ufdaland]

Here is all I know about the pictured machine. This is a Int. TD6 That has been put on wheels, 9x24 if I remember correctly. I bought it about 25 yrs ago and used it for about 25 yrs until I sold it for $1000. I do not believe it was converted to wheels by International. The drive is like a road grader with chain drive between the front and rear wheels. The loader was made by Drott and is the same as used on the TD6 crawlers The picture I posted is the only one I kept. I could never find much info on it but was told some company in Florida built several but I could not verify.

 

[ufdaland]

Did it work well on muddy ground? About as well as you would expect but but you could work your way out of a hole using the bucket.

 

[jhwis]

Did it work well on muddy ground? About as well as you would expect but but you could work your way out of a hole using the bucket.

Makes sense. Nice post. I learned something today.

 

[Check Break]

Here is all I know about the pictured machine. This is a Int. TD6 That has been put on wheels, 9x24 if I remember correctly. I bought it about 25 yrs ago and used it for about 25 yrs until I sold it for $1000. I do not believe it was converted to wheels by International. The drive is like a road grader with chain drive between the front and rear wheels. The loader was made by Drott and is the same as used on the TD6 crawlers The picture I posted is the only one I kept. I could never find much info on it but was told some company in Florida built several but I could not verify.

Search query: Caterpillar DW6 Sugarbaby Conversion. Likely your TD6 was an attempt to build a quasi-sugarcane tractor on an IH platform. Hard to believe they didn't use a TD9, but maybe something smaller than a DW6 was needed for an application other than sugarcane. Whatever the need, mud was involved.

 

[scootergmc]

Here's a bigger photo

 

[used red MN]

i did not say it was, i was just posting a picture of this experimental unit. and yes td18 as you can see the twin exhaust manifolds. i sure dont see his picture of that 6 ? how do we even know its a 6 ?

The photo he is talking about is in the YT media gallery. If you click the OP’s username and click the “1” under Media you will see it. It was reposted in this thread by “Powered by IH in reply 11 and again by Scooter in reply 17.
Ufdaland you can post a photo in a thread by using the “Attach files” button in the lower left. Clicking that will allow you to “browse to” (meaning navigate to, search, find to select) the folder you have them stored on in your computer. The you select them and add them.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Here is all I know about the pictured machine. This is a Int. TD6 That has been put on wheels, 9x24 if I remember correctly. I bought it about 25 yrs ago and used it for about 25 yrs until I sold it for $1000. I do not believe it was converted to wheels by International. The drive is like a road grader with chain drive between the front and rear wheels. The loader was made by Drott and is the same as used on the TD6 crawlers The picture I posted is the only one I kept. I could never find much info on it but was told some company in Florida built several but I could not verify.

Drott is probably the company which put it together.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

Search query: Caterpillar DW6 Sugarbaby Conversion. Likely your TD6 was an attempt to build a quasi-sugarcane tractor on an IH platform. Hard to believe they didn't use a TD9, but maybe something smaller than a DW6 was needed for an application other than sugarcane. Whatever the need, mud was involved.

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

Unless they put some high- speed gears in to replace the crawler drive train... it didn't have 3 speeds in reverse, it has one very slow speed....I think that thing would be crippled in the mud. With that short little bucket, it's not going to push itself out with any real success like a skid loader could.

My theory is a hard surface loader... often I have had to use my 955L to load trucks when no rubber tire machine was in the yard, and it makes an insane mess of the driveway. A skid-steer TD6 is less than ideal compared a machine with a steerable axle, but would churn up the loading area less than a track machine.... and ride smoother.