Heavy Dozer tramping road surface
This photograph is courtesy of David McQuillan, Dumfries.
Dave comments ‘This dozer is not a Cat as I first thought but is a Ruston Bucyrus.There is a similar machine in the grounds of the Summerlee Heritage Museum at Coatbridge.’
The machine location and year is not known.
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Looking at this photograph I would suspect that this is An International BTD 6 with a Bucyrus Eyrie blade.
On the enlarged photo you can see the BTD roundall to the left of the drivers elbow Comment left on 26 December 2019 at 20:37 by Harry Armstrong
Looking at this photograph I would suspect that this is An International BTD 6 with a Bucyrus Eyrie blade.
On the enlarged photo you can see the BTD roundall to the left of the drivers elbow Comment left on 26 December 2019 at 20:37 by Harry Armstrong
I first commented on this Picture 2666 on the 01 November 2014. I have had a second look and am still convinced that this is either a TD9 or TD14 International. I know that there is a roundall on the tank, but all International of this age, of 1940, and wartime manufacture had designated roundalls.
But this is no 1950's British made BTD 6 tractor, just look at the massive bumper welded on the bottom of the radiator guard! Note also that the hydraulic pump is missing! If you look at the dozer blade you will see fresh hydraulic oil spill on the metal. When the hydraulic pump gave trouble, it was common practice to jack up the dozer blade and secure it to the heavy duty radiator guard with a short chain to allow access to pump and also to enable the machine to get off the hill to the fitter's van. I suspect that this is what the worried looking operator was doing as the photo was taken.
9 January, 2020. Ian Cameron, mobile mechanic, Dunkeld. 1962/1970. Comment left on 09 January 2020 at 20:21 by Ian Cameron
But this is no 1950's British made BTD 6 tractor, just look at the massive bumper welded on the bottom of the radiator guard! Note also that the hydraulic pump is missing! If you look at the dozer blade you will see fresh hydraulic oil spill on the metal. When the hydraulic pump gave trouble, it was common practice to jack up the dozer blade and secure it to the heavy duty radiator guard with a short chain to allow access to pump and also to enable the machine to get off the hill to the fitter's van. I suspect that this is what the worried looking operator was doing as the photo was taken.
9 January, 2020. Ian Cameron, mobile mechanic, Dunkeld. 1962/1970. Comment left on 09 January 2020 at 20:21 by Ian Cameron
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These machines were made in USA and Canada, there the dozer blades and hydraulic equipment were supplied by Bucyrus-Erie. The tractors were shipped into the UK bare of dozing equipment, and were fitted with Ruston Bucyrus dozers here. The equipment was made in the same factory as the Ruston Bucyrus rope excavators. So what we have in the photo is an International tractor with Ruston Bucyrus bull-dozing equipment. Comment left on 01 November 2014 at 21:23 by Ian Cameron, mobile mechanic dunkeld 1962/1070.