Some of my Toys

[9W Monighan]

1968 M274 Mule


1955 Cat D2


1934 Cat Twenty-Eight side seat pulling #15 Trailer Patrol grader


1933 Cat 15 pulling 1929 Cat Ten road grader


1997 Cat D1 that I built for the kid

[sneaky-pete]

Nice toys!

[trucker n]

nice

[AZLIGHTNING]

AwesomE

[SmallHaul]

Steve, nice equipment. That Cat D2 looks really cool!

[modelman]

Great equipment steve! I bet your kid was the envy of all kids with that D1C!

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by modelman

Great equipment steve! I bet your kid was the envy of all kids with that D1C!

I've had fathers standing with their check book open trying to buy my kid's toy from me and insulted when I said "It's not for sale that's my babysitter" I originally built it when Mike was 5 so he had something to keep from getting bored at the shows because he was too little run the big stuff. He was in a Caterpillar children's video about 10yrs ago running it.

[modelman]

That's great! Did you start with some kind of machine or did you build it from the ground up?

[9W Monighan]

Originally I started building a D6H high drive 20yrs ago for my older son but didn't have a cheap source for a Kubota 2cly diesel so I scrapped the idea. Then I was at a show when younger son Mike was 3 and there was guy there with an old Struck Mini Dozer. The kid thought he could run it so the guy let him play with it all day. I tried to buy it but he wouldn't sell. So I looked for a year and came up with one and then I did the modifications to make it more kid friendly but never made any rollers because it's safer without them this prevents a over center situation throwing the little operator out.

[rcguyfarms]

Which cat dozer is ur favorite to operate?

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by rcguyfarms

Which cat dozer is ur favorite to operate?

Probably one of my D2's not shown. I like to punish myself and pull a 6' brush hog around mowing areas on my farm not too accessible with a wheel tractor. But second is the Cat 28 side seat Trailer Patrol . I'm only aware of three of these in existence that are complete. I'm sure there must be some more that have survived.

[Southgate]

Originally Posted by modelman

Great equipment steve! I bet your kid was the envy of all kids with that D1C!

Forget the kids, he's the envy of ME!

My dad had a D2 after he sold his TD-9. I remember starting it with that loud 2 cyl gas donkey then firing up the diesel. We didn't have it too long, as my dad's health was declining. He had a couple of Ford 8-N tractors. Sold one kept the better of the 2. Mom sold it after dad died. Oh, that's the one I hurt about, I wish so bad to have kept it.

[Espeefan]

Cool pictures! Man, and to think all I wanted when I was a kid was a pedal tractor! Kids these days have it made!

[JAMMER]

9 W you do have some nice toys. Ed

[9W Monighan]

Originally Posted by Espeefan

Cool pictures! Man, and to think all I wanted when I was a kid was a pedal tractor! Kids these days have it made!

I was inspired by a man who built a 1/2 scale McClaren Indy car and a Willy's Jeep for his kids back in the 70's. He gave me the Jeep when my oldest son now 21 was born. We played around with it till my friend had grandchildren of his own and gave it back to him. Being I like construction equipment I built the D1 .
I was approached by a friend this past weekend who wanted to buy the D1 for his grand daughter. I know he would pay royally for it but my son does not want to sell it. Both of the boys are mad I sold my 1948 Dodge Power Wagon I restored back in the early eighties. It was hard to sell a truck you put a lot of time into and owned for 15yrs. And now I wish I still had it but at the time I needed room in my shop for more machinery.

[rc_farmer]

WoW, nice toys, love the little dozer, that looks like way too much fun!

[9W Monighan]

Here's a picture of part of the D2 fleet. LH one is the one shown earlier and the one with the mower is a 1950. I sort of buried it down by the creek earlier that day looking at the mud on the tracks

[woodhog]

thats cool to have workin antiques instead clean as a pin show tractors

[9W Monighan]

I don't have the space to keep every one of my Cats stored perfectly and I like to see them in action as long as their not getting hurt.
I asked a friend this year to pull my grader around but he didn't want to scratch the paint off his drawbar
Some people spend hundreds of hours restoring a machine only to unload it and park under a tent and stare at it. I have another friend who has several perfectly restored crawlers in his building and they all have the oil drained so they don't stain the floor.

[ihbuilder]

Originally Posted by 9W Monighan

I don't have the space to keep every one of my Cats stored perfectly and I like to see them in action as long as their not getting hurt.
I asked a friend this year to pull my grader around but he didn't want to scratch the paint off his drawbar
Some people spend hundreds of hours restoring a machine only to unload it and park under a tent and stare at it. I have another friend who has several perfectly restored crawlers in his building and they all have the oil drained so they don't stain the floor.

I would hope he has a dehumidifier in that building . I'd hate to see the inside of the crawler if he didn't I like having my stuff painted up nice but gee they're made to get a little dirty