![]() ![]() In the theater, Christenbury punched his buddy in the arm. In the opening scene, Trumbo is looking out over a lake. When “Trumbo” came out in 2015 several months after Christenbury had hauled the D6 to New Orleans, he took his father and his friend to see the movie at the local theater. “The only two movies I've ever been in in my whole life, you were in both of them.” “It’s funny,” Christenbury recalls telling Bridgers. “We talked and he was real nice guy,” Christenbury says. “You don't remember me,” Christenbury said, “but I was in the ‘Corn’ movie with you way back when.” He was on the set later in the day when Bridgers walked around the corner. Later, Christenbury got a second chance to get reacquainted. “Hey, buddy, were you in ‘Children of the Corn Part II?’” he asked.īridgers said he was, turned back around and kept walking. So when he saw Bridgers on the “Trumbo” set, he ran after him. One of his “victims” was a doctor he "stabbed." “I was one of the terrors that went around killing people,” he says. ![]() Later, they had him lean up against a pickup truck and pretend to talk to one of the characters while the main actors were behind him.Īt age 16, Christenbury had played a role in the horror flick “Children of the Corn Part II – The Final Sacrifice,” which was shot near his home in North Carolina.īridgers was also in the movie, which came out in 1992.Ĭhristenbury, who was big for his age, was a stunt assistant and also played one of the children of the corn. “I can make you a pond,” Christenbury replied.Īnd so for about 5 minutes, he moved dirt while they filmed. The director said, “We’re making a pond.” “I was like, ‘Well, what are we going to do with it? Are we burying dead people? Are we building something? Making a road?’” He still didn’t know the movie’s name or story line. Erik ChristenburyĪfter a long wait, Christenbury was told where to put the dozer and where the cameras would go. “They gave me this hat that looked like Indiana Jones.”Įrik Christenbury with his 1956 Cat D6 on the movie set, dressed in 1950s wardrobe – and Indiana Jones-style hat. “Every good dozer operator wore a hat to keep the sun out of his eyes,” Christenbury told them. “We'd rather have you do it,” the director said.Ĭhristenbury agreed and soon his hair was getting cut, his goatee shaved, makeup applied and his 1950s-style wardrobe donned. Erik ChristenburyĬhristenbury and his friend were soon met by the director after they arrived at the movie’s staging area at 5 a.m. It had less than 900 hours and all original parts. Erik Christenbury purchased the dozer from him. “Needless to say, we struck a deal on the phone, and I picked it up the very next day.”Ĭharles Moretz was the original operator of the 1956 Cat D6 dozer. “It was the owner of the D6 I just looked at, offering it to me for purchase. Christenbury let him know that if he ever decided to sell, he’d be interested. It had less than 900 hours on it, and all parts were original. When his boss no longer needed it on the farm and decided to sell it, Moretz bought it and had kept it all those years. “An older man came to the door and gladly talked about his tractor.”Ĭharles Moretz had operated the D6 since his employer bought it in 1956. “I turned around and knocked on the front door,” he recalls. While driving down a highway, he saw it covered with a blue tarp in a front yard. One of those is the 1956 D6 9U he lucked upon one day. Today Christenbury has about 150 pieces of antique Cat equipment he has acquired from all over the country. So as a collector, you decide, ‘Hey, I’d like to have one of each model.’ And then it just grows from there.” “And unfortunately, Caterpillar made a lot of different models. “That was what started our Caterpillar collecting,” he says. He calls it the pride and joy of his collection, and it was just the beginning. He cleaned it, got it running and slowly restored it over a period of years. “He always said that was his favorite tractor,” Christenbury recalls.Ĭhristenbury bought the worn old tractor from his grandfather. His grandfather, Silas Christenbury, used the D2 as a drawbar tractor on his cotton farm for terracing, plowing, and dragging logs out of the woods. A dealer had talked his grandfather into trading in his gasoline-powered Cat Fifteen for the new diesel-powered tractor, which was quickly becoming popular with farmers. “Where can we unload?” Grandfather’s 1940 D2Ĭhristenbury began his antique Caterpillar equipment collection in the 1990s, starting with the D2 tractor his grandfather bought new in 1940. “I was like, ‘Is this the right location for the movie?’”
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