r/machinesinaction • u/Bodzio1981 • 4d ago

Caterpillar Sixty Crawler at Work! đŸ”„

Here’s the legendary Caterpillar Sixty back in the field, doing what it was built for. No electronics, no fancy buttons—just raw diesel power and engineering from a different era.

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u/TxManBearPig 4d ago

Is it called “Sixty” for it’s 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

It’s 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, ‘horsepower’ 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, it’s strange.

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u/g3nerallycurious 3d ago

Are we measuring a Clydesdale against a quarter horse here? 🧐