951b cat traxcavater diesel

Tomorrow I am going to to look at a 951b cat traxcavater diesel. Is there anything I should be looking for?

track and undercarrage , shift smoothness, loader pins and bushings .

what would be a fair price? I know it is a loaded question like asking the price on a tractor.

Hi Coke; alot of people critisize Cats seemingly backward actuation of the bucket tilt controls; but in dozing operations using the bucket it is far easier to use than the standard controls.

my dad bought a 955 with a pony motor on it one time he loaded with it for a while all i can say it wasent long the 955 was gone and there was another hd6g loading his  truck.

Wheeled loaders were and still are used to load only loose material and only on easy ground. The tracked loaders job was breaking out hard material and loading directly onto trucks, and when fitted with log forks, they did nothing but load and unload. I guess thats why their called tracked loaders. Hence my comment on the Cat bucket crowd control - Useless like that.

I have no problem swapping from powershift to direct drive, but to not mind having to move the lift and crowd levers in opposite directions while filling buckets and forks through loading cycles, you must be an extremely efficient, productive, and sought after loader operator Merv. I will recommend you to others

Edited by Mactractor - 14 Oct 2011 at 9:11am

 You guys and all this modern stuff (insert smiley face here) I happen to own a Cat D4 7U Trackson Hydraulic made in Guatamala, now that is going back a ways and it is a horrid damned thing, I swear, it must be the spawn of the antichrist. Now, one thing to remember, no matter how old, how hard to operate, frontwards or backwards controls and how miserable you are while doing it, any piece of equipment out there in, my opinion, beats the beejeebers out of using a shovel and a wheelbarrow. (put another smiley face here)   Tad



Who has more fun than people on tractors, sometimes the older the better.


Edited by Tad Wicks - 14 Oct 2011 at 6:49pm

Merv, I just don't know what Cat was thinking when it came to the track loaders, I guess just like all Cat equipment, from an operators standpoint, probably the best out there, (in my opinion) from a parts replace standpoint, probably the best out there, from a mechanics standpoint, all I can say is   "THEY SUCK"   especially the 977 type loaders, which I have had the displeasure to encounter more than once. I can't imagine a piece of equipment that supports itself by the engine pan and then having to raise it up, remove the spring/bar to get to the bottom end of the engine, much less access anything else, anywhere else on the machine. I did a top end, injector pump, front main seal, water pump on one, but I don't think that was as bad as pulling the pony on the D4 Trackson, the D4 pony is a gold plated #$^%%$## to do on a regular tractor, there are a few nuts under there that should have been forcibly inserted into some engineer's anatomy  (insert smiley face here) now, add all the lift arms and goodies and you have a recipe to conjure up your own vocabulary and voice those words as loud as you can. I won't even bring up the bucket geometry, or lack thereof, on the early Trackson and it's inability to curl back and dump sufficiently. Butt it is still better than a  RB1 (put another smiley face here) ( what does RB1 stand for anyway, inquiring topsiders need to know)   :-)






Who has more fun than people on tractors unless they are working on a  D4 Trackson or 977     Tad



Edited by Tad Wicks - 15 Oct 2011 at 11:57am