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Retired Heavy Equipment Operator Turns Artist This Caterpillar Challenger, the only machine Don Weisel built with rubber tracks, is a 1/10 scale model and is built with exacting detail.
When Don Weisel retired from his job as a heavy equipment operator in 2000, he relaxed for two weeks and then concluded that he’d had enough down time and needed to tackle a
project to keep himself occupied. Weisel began as an operator at age 15, working at his father’s gravel pit in Louisville, Ohio. He worked the final 12 years of his career at The Ruhlin Company. He enjoyed his work and also recalled Seen here with the Caterpillar PL87 pipelay- enjoying shop class in high er he handcrafted, retired heavy equipment operator Don Weisel converts his passion school. “I decided to combine for construction equipment into scale modthose two interests and set els of the machines he operated.
about building my first scale model, a Caterpillar D9 crawler dozer,” he said. What started out as a minor diversion has become an annual endeavor. Weisel has built one piece of construction equipment every year for the past 21 years. Weighing in at 30 to 45 lbs., the models are built to 1/10 scale and take a month or more, working seven hours a day to construct. see WEISEL page 8