For those who asked......

[CAT_serviceman927]

Since I have joined this forum, several people have asked for photos of my work. I am posting it in this section since this is where I spend my time viewing and talking, and this where people have asked to see the shop. So here it is. Sorry about the quality in some, these were all taken with my phone.

Quick descriptions:

-345 material handler split in two. We were replacing the swing bearing.
-D6R dozer, getting new tracks and idlers.
-D350D truck, in for a brake job. This is my current job along with another mechanic.
-Two of the shop. 1 is the main shop where I work, the 2nd is the hydraulic cylinder bench. The goofy looking thing at the end is what is used to tighten/loosen the piston nut on the cylinder rods. Not sure how much torque it can produce but I know it is in the 10,000ftlb+ range.
-992G loader. 3rd in size(CAT-wise) only to the new 993K and 994F loaders.
-773D quarry truck. This is a baby one compared to most.

 

[Deafautotech]

wow! what can i say???? i was noticed there is KRL1004 (blue)... i can't believe that you and your mechanics keep their toolboxes clean!!! wow!

 

[elect]

Thanks Cat! Interesting place would still like to see that big wood box you mentioned in another post.(one of the old timers box)

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I'm so jealous.. Your job owns.

 

[blue302stang]

I use to work for CAT building motors, i use to love seeing what all the big machine guys would always be working on.

 

[nissan_crawler]

wow! what can i say???? i was noticed there is KRL1004 (blue)... i can't believe that you and your mechanics keep their toolboxes clean!!! wow!

Mine is clean enough to eat off of (and I do). The top gets wiped down every night, and the box is waxed every few months.

 

[CAT_serviceman927]

Thanks Cat! Interesting place would still like to see that big wood box you mentioned in another post.(one of the old timers box)

Still working on that....

I'm so jealous.. Your job owns.

I know.

 

[eschoendorff]

Yeah... what Moose said. I have a pic of myself (somewhere) perched on a D6. You literally feel like a god on one of those.

 

[SpiderGearsMan]

Mine is clean enough to eat off of (and I do). The top gets wiped down every night, and the box is waxed every few months.

my box has greasy fingerprints older than you proudly on display
only a NERD waxes his tool box

 

[Deafautotech]

my box has greasy fingerprints older than you proudly on display
only a NERD waxes his tool box

True Technician!!! ha ha

 

[Deafautotech]

Mine is clean enough to eat off of (and I do). The top gets wiped down every night, and the box is waxed every few months.

wow... is your toolbox have top chest?? i can't have anything on my KRL1003 because it already has Krl1203 on it.. i always eat lunch in breakroom that where it is my break time... I can eat my lunch next by my toolbox but most of time i have nothing to do so i want sit and watch tv in breakroom for 15 minutes while i am on lunch time...

 

[TxDoc]

CAT! Very nice! Facility is impeccable! The Holt Caterpillar place here is like that. They take pride in their work and their workplace, as you do, too. Do the different color chests mean different individuals or different types of work areas?

Thanks for posting.

 

[Stanger]

I need a set of those jack stands for the '66.

 

[eschoendorff]

I need a set of those jack stands for the '66.

Yeah, when I clicked on the thumbnails and saw those jackstands...

 

[CAT_serviceman927]

wow! what can i say???? i was noticed there is KRL1004 (blue)... i can't believe that you and your mechanics keep their toolboxes clean!!! wow!

We have to keep the shop and our tool boxes clean. Every so often Caterpillar has an inspector come in to make sure we are keeping up with "contamination control." The shop is quite clean for what we do.

Yeah... what Moose said. I have a pic of myself (somewhere) perched on a D6. You literally feel like a god on one of those.

See the pics below. Those were from a trip to Illinois with school. We got to see a couple of the factories and Caterpillar's demonstration facility. Even got to see a D11. D6 is like 185hp, 46,000lbs operating weight. D11 is 850hp, 230,000lbs.

 

[eschoendorff]

See the pics below. Those were from a trip to Illinois with school. We got to see a couple of the factories and Caterpillar's demonstration facility. Even got to see a D11. D6 is like 185hp, 46,000lbs operating weight. D11 is 850hp, 230,000lbs.

Those pictures right there are enough to make me seriously consider a career change!

 

[Deafautotech]

We have to keep the shop and our tool boxes clean. Every so often Caterpillar has an inspector come in to make sure we are keeping up with "contamination control." The shop is quite clean for what we do.

what can I say... i am trying to keep my work clean but other techs just work and toss stuffs on floors... they just wait for clean guys come on night times to clean it...

 

[Deafautotech]

Those pictures right there are enough to make me seriously consider a career change!

well that mean you need buy more tools and bigger tools!!! ha ha ha

 

[Merkava_4]

i was noticed there is KRL1004 (blue)...

Those look like two separate KRL1023's to me Andy. . .

 

[CAT_serviceman927]

Do the different color chests mean different individuals or different types of work areas?

Those are all individual mechanics boxes.

Those look like two separate KRL1023's to me Andy. . .

The blue one is a KRL1023 with a locker. The one next to it is a black KRL1004 with a locker.

 

[nissan_crawler]

wow... is your toolbox have top chest?? i can't have anything on my KRL1003 because it already has Krl1203 on it.. i always eat lunch in breakroom that where it is my break time... I can eat my lunch next by my toolbox but most of time i have nothing to do so i want sit and watch tv in breakroom for 15 minutes while i am on lunch time...

No top chest, 40,000cu. in. bottom box, I like the work surface.

Those pictures make me miss the farm. 425hp tractors, payloaders, semis. I miss the darn toys.

I tried running a dozer once...wasn't too good at it. The guy digging a dam for us let me run it for a bit. He could make a swipe like it was a paved highway. I took a swipe and it looked like the whoops on a dirt bike track.

 

[Merkava_4]

The blue one is a KRL1023 with a locker. The one next to it is a black KRL1004 with a locker.

I was half right.

 

[Joe B.]

Cool shop and equipment. I miss all of that powerful stuff.

Back in the day I used to supply all of the fasteners and other small parts that Honeywell would use on the turbos. I remember a huge quality problem with the nuts that go on the v-bands that hold both halves of the turbos together. It was such a mess that I still keep one of those locknuts on my keychain to remind me how easy my job is now.

 

[Cummins_Powered]

That is pretty awesome, like every boys dream to get to work with trucks like that haha! very nice CAT

 

[Coach James]

Two questions:

1. What's the capacity of those jack stands?

2. What kind of jack raised the truck to put them there?

A+ cool looking work place. I always wondered what it would be like to enjoy going to work.

Coach

 

[toolfreak]

Very nice pics of your shop, much nicer than the one I work at. I will try to find my disc with pics of equipment in the dirt and rock, if you guys think the shop picks are cool, you should see a d11 working. Also, a 5110 excavator digging is awesome to watch it dig with a 13 yard bucket.

 

[CAT_serviceman927]

Two questions:

1. What's the capacity of those jack stands?

2. What kind of jack raised the truck to put them there?

A+ cool looking work place. I always wondered what it would be like to enjoy going to work.

Coach

1. 20 tons each.

2. A bottle jack with a portable hydraulic power unit, some 12x12 oak blocks, and a whole lot of caution.

 

[Deafautotech]

Those are all individual mechanics boxes.



The blue one is a KRL1023 with a locker. The one next to it is a black KRL1004 with a locker.

I am winner!!! ha ha i am kidding... i am like KRL1004 but too wide for me to bend down to get tools so KRL1203 and KRL1003 are great for me...

 

[RickP330]

The blue one is a KRL1023 with a locker. The one next to it is a black KRL1004 with a locker.

Hey, I really want to put a locker on my KRL1032 but I was afraid it would look wierd w/o a top box. I see there are no top boxes there. What do they do for covers? I don't think a cover will fit either will it? The problem with getting the locker is then I'd need a riser and top box
RickP

 

[Brandon_Lutz]

No top chest, 40,000cu. in. bottom box, I like the work surface.

Those pictures make me miss the farm. 425hp tractors, payloaders, semis. I miss the darn toys.

I tried running a dozer once...wasn't too good at it. The guy digging a dam for us let me run it for a bit. He could make a swipe like it was a paved highway. I took a swipe and it looked like the whoops on a dirt bike track.

Dozer work can be addicting once you start, so watch out!

My father has a dozer, and for all of the years I spent on the farm driving tractors, trucks, and combines, I never used the Dozer.

About 4 years ago, I asked him if I could work with it one day, and had me tear down part of a "spoil" bank so we could make a new entrance to some land that we own.

I was hooked after that

 

[GDA]

I would think working on class A american equipment like that must be very rewarding. Its cool to see some things american made are still top notch!

Thanks for sharing

 

[Uncle Buck]

I have common ground with this thread on several fronts. I used to work in one of Goodyears tire plants that made the earthmover tires such as those shown in the pictures, and prior to that a worked for a Cat attachment plant that made many of the different Cat attachments, they also did machine conversions such as turning dozers into pipe laying machines, and turning excavators into forrestry equipment, very interesting stuff.

BTW Who can tell me the reason that Cat changed it's color from the bright yellow used on equipment of days gone by, to the color we see on the new machines and attachment today? Take your guesses and I will tell you later what the reason was if no one guesses the right answer.

 

[CAT_serviceman927]

Hey, I really want to put a locker on my KRL1032 but I was afraid it would look wierd w/o a top box. I see there are no top boxes there. What do they do for covers? I don't think a cover will fit either will it? The problem with getting the locker is then I'd need a riser and top box
RickP

They don't have covers. I don't think you need all that other stuff either just to have a locker, unless that is a requirement you have placed upon yourself.

 

[TxDoc]

BTW Who can tell me the reason that Cat changed it's color from the bright yellow used on equipment of days gone by, to the color we see on the new machines and attachment today? Take your guesses and I will tell you later what the reason was if no one guesses the right answer.

I have a couple of Cat books that, IIRC, said they were originally gold/red. Holt was gray/red. They merged, Holt/CAT and CAT took on the gray/red. They went to yellow, in the early '30s, so their product would stand out, buyers said that their Cats were not yellow (like a coward, I guess). I don't know about the bright yellow back to another yellow, though.

 

[eschoendorff]

See Caterpillar dozers and tractors by Randy Leffingwell. Hiway yellow became Cat yellow.Chapter 9,commitee met had 3 30's painted one in yellow 1 in deep orange,one in aluminum.the commitee picked orange with black engine manufacturing said no so they said aluminum,manufacturing said to hard in numbers!! okay yellow then

Okay. Wait... what???

 

[wrenchr]

See Caterpillar dozers and tractors by Randy Leffingwell. Hiway yellow became Cat yellow.Chapter 9,commitee met had 3 30's painted one in yellow 1 in deep orange,one in aluminum.the commitee picked orange with black engine manufacturing said no so they said aluminum,manufacturing said to hard in numbers!! okay yellow then

So why is yellow, orange????? You know the freight carrier

 

[nissan_crawler]

my box has greasy fingerprints older than you proudly on display
only a NERD waxes his tool box

No, just a mechanic that cares about his investments and appearances. Junky boxes are pretty looked down upon at work. In fact, several people have been told to get new boxes.

My 6 year old C-Pro box look nicer than 95% of the 1 year old Snap-On boxes around.

 

[Detroit Diesel Man]

Nice Pics CAT...cool to see what others do everyday..nice lookin shop..looks like company treats you pretty good as far as equipment and shop space..Thanks for sharin.


DDM

 

[nissan_crawler]

Nice Pics CAT...cool to see what others do everyday..nice lookin shop..looks like company treats you pretty good as far as equipment and shop space..Thanks for sharin.


DDM

Curious about your name, do you have one, or work on them? Nothing gets me going like the sound of a screaming jimmy.

 

[eschoendorff]

Curious about your name, do you have one, or work on them? Nothing gets me going like the sound of a screaming jimmy.