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Mining Dozer – Todays picture is not something anyone would guess would be sitting in a pole barn in the middle of hundreds of acres of farm land. This monster Cat D-11N Dozer is built for coal mining in coal country . Not for farm country in the middle of perfectly flat farm country , ha,ha.
I was sitting in the front yard at my folks and a red pickup stopped . It was Tim who I met many years ago at a Toy Show . He stopped to reintroduce himself and see if I was still building toys. He was surprised to see my toys got much bigger compared to the small farm toys he saw many years ago. But what really caught his attention was my Cat D-11R model .
He did a doubletake and looked at me and asked if it was for sale? He was so surprised I built a model of a D-11 over 5 feet tall and 15 feet long. He then proceded to tell me he had a REAL D-11 down the road just five miles . I looked at him like he was crazy as i know there are NO D-11 anywhere in Michigan . He asked me if I wanted to go see it and off we went. I was in awe to see this monster dozer sitting in one of their pole barns !!! They are restoring it back to like new condition to resell it . I told him when it is done to be sure to let me know to come over when they test drive it . He laughed and said he sure will. Then he gave me the rest of the tour of his big farm tractors , big combine , grain cart , planter and several semi trucks.
Now I can’t wait til fall til he gets all the equipment out as he farms the large fields across the road from my folks .
I made a new friend and I got a feeling I am going to be bumping into him more often from now on even if I have to stand in the middle of the road and flag him down , lol
Have a great Tues.
