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Another in the series of more obscure CAT products. This is a 963D track loader modified to clean out the interior of ship holds. Loader is lowered down inside the ship to clean out the remainder of the cargo during the last phase of unloading. Brochure link Shiphold ArrangmentPhotos    Alright custom builders, get busy 
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pretty cool piece of machinery but the first thing that came to my head was why not just use a bulldozer?
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If you use a dozer you can only push the material infront of you, with that thing you can "rake" the material to the center of the cargo hold.
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thedirtman wrote:pretty cool piece of machinery but the first thing that came to my head was why not just use a bulldozer? If you read through the puplication, the loader can be used to clean the walls of the ship's hold. I never saw this one before, interesting attachment. Thanks for posting Gary Ken
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I think you will also find that the wear edge on this is made of a hard rubber of some type!!!
If anything was used other than that it might puncture the hull!!!!
I'm also surprised that it has regular pads on the tracks, I would think that rubber topped "road" pads would be used!!!
Nice find, let's see the customs come out now!!!!
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thank you for clarifying.
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Back with some more information to address questions. Here is a video of iron ore unloading in Cleveland with Hulett Unloaders. At 7:00, they lower what appears to be a 920 loader to perform the cleanup task in the hold. Watch here
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INCREDIBLE video Gary. Just great to watch the ingenuity that went into machines that defined our industrial era.
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Cool loader version. And yes, those old ore un-loaders were a trip. It's easy not to notice that the operator is actually going up and down inside the arm.
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Gary, what a great post! I love these specific machines, there was a really good thread on the 'Special Apllication' machines a couple of months back.... enjoy looking through here -> http://forums.dhsdiecast.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1104610Rowan.
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Started a build post for the model. http://forums.dhsdiecast.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=127965
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Dirtboy strikes again, who needs a $50K rapid prototype machine? I've got a dirtboy working hard on customs!!!!! G
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looks awsome! looking forward to some more pics 
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Started a build post for the model. http://forums.dhsdiecast.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=127965
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Got the back end a little more the way I wanted it. Smaller lifting points and the bolt heads on the rear guard as well as a hitch. Started a build post for the model. http://forums.dhsdiecast.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=127965
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I see dirtboy is already working on a scale model lol by any chance do you have any ideas on how your "push blade" will be??
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Never dawned on me where the operator cab was on these cool mechanical monsters till this video,never thought near the bucket  Nice erector set model http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKDO_kEf0QQchet
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Nice project!
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