Heavy Equipment & Generators

Used Caterpillar D6T Dozer: Sell or Buy at Auction

Caterpillar is the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, and a major producer of diesel and gas engines and industrial generators. Cat equipment is the most recognizable heavy equipment brand globally, with unmatched parts availability and dealer network creating extremely liquid used equipment markets.

The Cat D6T is a roughly 20-ton crawler dozer built around Caterpillar's C9.3 ACERT engine, which delivers about 205 to 215 net horsepower in Tier 4 Final units, with the earliest C9 ACERT machines rated closer to 185. Operating weight generally runs from around 44,000 pounds on a standard XL up to roughly 54,000 pounds on a wide-track LGP, depending on chassis width and whether the unit carries an SU, straight, angle, or VPAT blade. It sits in the workhorse size class for general contractors, oil and gas pad builders, land-clearing crews, and mine-reclamation work that needs real blade capacity for grading and pushing without moving up to a heavier D7 or D8. Many late-model units come factory or field-equipped with Cat GRADE 3D or AccuGrade GPS control, a feature that pulls in a distinct pool of machine-control grading contractors who will bid up for the technology. Because the D6 family is one of the most widely fielded dozers in North America, parts, undercarriage, and C9.3 service support are easy to source almost anywhere, so buyers bid with confidence and a single D6T draws interest from owner-operators to multi-state fleet buyers well beyond the yard where it is sitting. KD Auctions markets each D6T listing to its 500,000+ industry contacts, and on these machines undercarriage life and hour-meter reading typically drive the spread in final bids more than any other factor.

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