Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Ordering A Caterpillar D11 From Ikea....

 

 The background music is meh.  The video is amazing.  Watch it full screen.

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Ikea will ship that via UPS, right?

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    1. I got 'er one piece at a time...

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  2. The video is a tad long but good. In the CUS, I guess shipped in larger sections and assembled on job site at destination?

    Marvin Heemeyer used a Komatsu. One of these might have not gotten the treads hung up as quickly . . . .

    Steve the Engineer

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    1. The problem with building a D-9 Killdozer is... where do you find a building big enough to assemble/fab it, and how do you find the amount of steel plate you would need?? Details, baby!

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  3. I see they didn't get the killdozer option.

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  4. And not once do you see a guy reading an instruction manual! I wonder how many extra parts they had left over at the end...

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  5. Kinda have a gut feeling China is behind the radical laws, regulations, unions, and law suits that make it too expensive to build in America.

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  6. That's a lot of work, putting that monster together!

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  7. Back in the 80's I got to operate the first Cat triangle track D10 down in the Wyoming oilfields, Triangle Tracks were a completely new thing back then. So much more power. We pulled a stuck fueler Semi truck out of the gumbo mud, the truck had a full load of fuel and was stuck deep up to its axles and the floor plate of the bed., we rigged chains to the ripper and walked that truck out of that gumbo. ZERO load on the motor, Zero stress, you couldn't feel any weight holding that dozer back. Cat builds the best equipment in the world.

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  8. One 3/8-7/16 end wrench is missing.

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  9. Japanese; no China here.

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  10. This video is evidence of why you want to be diesel mechanic. Cranes lift 99% of everything that needs moved. screw the back breaking automotive work.

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  11. What does a D11 cost, assembled?

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    1. Seems $2.2M is the starting point for a new one.

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  12. I may need that impact wrench in the future at the 5 minute mark as well as the whole D11 for SSS secret service safety, ha ha ha

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  13. When I was 11 my dad taught me to drive a D8. This looks like way more fun!

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