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Wed 09 Sep 2015

Veteran Cat D9G puts on a show

The Caterpillar D9 first appeared in 1955 as a 286 horsepower model, as years went by the tractor was upgraded to the D9D, D9E, D9G, and finally the D9H model which was by that time fitted with a 410 horsepower engine. The D9G model was built from 1961 to 1974 at Caterpillar's East Peoria plant; the tractor had a maximum engine power of 385hp and weighed in at around 31 tons. The iconic machine was immortalized in the rather naff TV movie Killdozer, with its crazy plot of a dozer going on the rampage killing people who were obviously not clever enough to avoid it! But for those of us with a keen interest in plant it was a great movie if only for the machines involved. In the following video we see a classic 1969 vintage Cat D9G in action at a German vintage plant demonstration, also of note in this video is the unusual Frutiger scrape/dozer at work in the background. [youtube width="725" height="344"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llB7jQMq-oo[/youtube]   Enjoy the sound and the belching black smoke that was synonymous with machines from this era!  

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