Crawlers I photo'd recently.

[Truck Shop]

 

[Willie B]

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Dayum! that makes for a long day! That Ford looks to be at risk of a rollover. 1935 truck?

 

[Truck Shop]

Dayum! that makes for a long day! That Ford looks to be at risk of a rollover. 1935 truck?

You know Willie allot of people would like to or think we should go back to the 50's, why stop there.
These folks that work out in a gym, no need for that. All the work they can handle from sun up to
sun down. No need for high vis vests or beards, get allot done too. No cell phones either. Folks back
then didn't have service trucks, just a bucket full of crude looking wrenches. Wiped their ass with
the leftovers of a old burlap bag too--nice and coarse--grabbed all the berries.

 

[Truck Shop]

I've got lots of these old photos----but of coarse these are not my photos. Find a over weight person
in the cook house photo. Everyone of these guys tough as a piece of shoe leather.
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[JaredV]

You know Willie allot of people would like to or think we should go back to the 50's, why stop there.
These folks that work out in a gym, no need for that. All the work they can handle from sun up to
sun down. No need for high vis vests or beards, get allot done too. No cell phones either. Folks back
then didn't have service trucks, just a bucket full of crude looking wrenches. Wiped their ass with
the leftovers of a old burlap bag too--nice and coarse--grabbed all the berries.View attachment 319418

I see even photographers back then weren't immune from trying to make things more dramatic. Looks like he couldn't resist tilting the camera to make it look stepper than he is. Or everyone has had too much to drink and can't stand straight.

 

[Truck Shop]

I see even photographers back then weren't immune from trying to make things more dramatic. Looks like he couldn't resist tilting the camera to make it look stepper than he is. Or everyone has had too much to drink and can't stand straight.

Most all of these were taken by amateur photographers, wasn't quite as speedy as the
I-Phone.

 

[Willie B]

My grandfather died sort of quickly in 1942. He cut meat, killed pork & beef, had a dairy farm, 25 milkers, Rented space in the center of town where he had refrigeration, ran a meat market until 1937 when the building burned down. Then he moved buildings from Mount Tabor, a ghost town. I have no idea when he slept.

 

[Truck Shop]

My grandfather died sort of quickly in 1942. He cut meat, killed pork & beef, had a dairy farm, 25 milkers, Rented space in the center of town where he had refrigeration, ran a meat market until 1937 when the building burned down. Then he moved buildings from Mount Tabor, a ghost town. I have no idea when he slept.

People didn't lay around sleeping back then--there probably wasn't anyone to fend for you,
you had to do it yourself.

 

[Truck Shop]

enough about things with tracks for awhile, it'll cause hearing loss just looking at them.

 

[Truck Shop]

 

[OzDozer]

What makes me hear that old song, "Give me 40 acres, and I'll turn this rig around!", when I see this French half-track?

Citroen-Kegresse P17 (1929)

The Citroen-Kégresse P17 was the most common artillery prime mover halftrack of the French army in 1939. Many were also exported to Denmark and Poland.

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[Truck Shop]

Year 1925 JD-D.
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[56wrench]

It didn’t get that shine on the wheels from sitting still

 

[JaredV]

Those open steel wheel tractors look like a meat grinder to me.

 

[OzDozer]

I hate to think what riding that ol' JD would be like, with the bare steel seat, steel lugged wheels, and hard ground!

Painful piles, prostate problems, and even damaged spinal vertebrae after many years of driving that thing?

Rubber pneumatic tyres for tractor were still a number of years off, and it was only 5 years previous that trucks moved over to pneumatic tyres from solid rubber!

Operators of today think a piece of equipment is totally substandard if it doesn't have a glass, fully enclosed A/C cabin with a premium sound system!

 

[Willie B]

I hate to think what riding that ol' JD would be like, with the bare steel seat, steel lugged wheels, and hard ground!

Painful piles, prostate problems, and even damaged spinal vertebrae after many years of driving that thing?

Rubber pneumatic tyres for tractor were still a number of years off, and it was only 5 years previous that trucks moved over to pneumatic tyres from solid rubber!

Operators of today think a piece of equipment is totally substandard if it doesn't have a glass, fully enclosed A/C cabin with a premium sound system!

It looks like the big leaf spring seat mount. I'd think that'd launch you over the moon after a big bounce. A New Jersey state trooper bought land here, was going to put in a mobile home as a hunting camp. Borrowed an old two cylinder John Deere dozer to clear the land. He was backing up, seat broke off. His wife watched in horror as it backed over him, killing him.

 

[Truck Shop]

Here Ozzy Dozer here's one you can elaborate on----.
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[OzDozer]

Someone's been having fun, photoshopping a photo of an old Holt tractor?

It almost looks like something our old trucking buddy, Ted "Swishy" Beamish would produce!

Seems like "Swishy's photo album" and his clever photo touch-up work have disappeared now, though.

Beamish Heavy Haulage - Transport Solutions Servicing Melbourne

We are the transport experts and industry leaders in transporting over-dimensional and heavy loads. Updated January 2022.

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[Truck Shop]

It's only a small part of the Mahan Tractor collection. It's online.
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[Truck Shop]

The Mahan Collection Foundation Inc.

The Mahan Collection Foundation Inc. 3,012 likes · 10 talking about this. We collect, restore, and display one of the largest Antique Mack Truck Collections in the world!

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