r/machinesinaction • u/Bodzio1981 • 3d ago
Caterpillar Sixty Crawler at Work! đ„
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Hereâs the legendary Caterpillar Sixty back in the field, doing what it was built for. No electronics, no fancy buttonsâjust raw diesel power and engineering from a different era.
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u/hallofo 3d ago
I think it's named the "sixty" to describe how many meters it goes with a liter of fuel.
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u/nomasterpiece9312 3d ago
Its a diesel, its getting WAY better milage than your giving it credit for. No im not being sarcastic either
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u/martian4x 3d ago
Me: I don't want to eat those pre-packaged foods anymore, to Go-Green I'm gonna make my own food.
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u/SpaceCadetMoonMan 3d ago
Very cool thanks for sharing
Whatâs the smaller one behind it?
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u/stuntman1108 1d ago
Looks like a late 40s early 50s D2. Squatch253 on YT has rebuilt and painstakingly restored a couple of them, and a few Minneapolis-Moline one-of-one in the world prototype tractors. He's got a MM prototype crawler that uses a D2 undercarriage for the crawler bits! If you like old iron, check him out! VERY sfw channel.
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u/TxManBearPig 3d ago
Is it called âSixtyâ for itâs max RPMs?
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u/UhOhAllWillyNilly 3d ago
No, it produces 60 horsepower. Not bad for 100 years ago, eh?
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u/g3nerallycurious 3d ago
Itâs kinda wild to think about how extreme that was when you take horsepower literally.
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u/UhOhAllWillyNilly 3d ago
Except one good sized horse produces like around 14-15 hp peak output. Oddly enough, âhorsepowerâ is not a 1 to 1 ratio like the word implies. In other words one horse does not equal 1 horsepower (like any normal person would think it does). Yes, itâs strange.
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u/-------7654321 3d ago
love how it has multiple exhaust pipes that take turns to spew smoke