Crawlers I photo'd recently.

[Welder Dave]

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You have a couple pics. that didn't show up.

 

[Truck Shop]

You have a couple pics. that didn't show up.

Yeah those were copies not saved images----so if I do post those, those automatically go blank.

 

[mowingman]

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What brand is this. I was thinking LaPlant Choate, but it just does not look like those. Doesn't look much like a Letourneau either.

 

[Truck Shop]

Letourneau either.

The short story under photo mentioned it as being Letourneau.

 

[JaredV]

It's a LeT but I don't have my book handy to tell you what model. I think they might have called it a Model -- Roadster.

 

[DMiller]

Fine piece of experimentation!!

 

[Truck Shop]

40-80 Hart Parr.
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[Pops52]

The guy working the plow is thinkin, " and I used to do this with 2 mules"

 

[Truck Shop]

and I used to do this with 2 mules"

For Sister Sarah.

 

[DMiller]

Love that movie!! Shirley was really funny!

 

[Dug Overburden]

 

[Truck Shop]

Fordson Screw drive tractor for swampy land. Many copies through the years, including the
yellow one. I think Vetech worked on it once or twice.
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[Coaldust]

Fountain Head Auto Museum in Fairbanks has a 1926 Fordson on loan from the Pioneer Air Museum. Fountain Head restored it and made it operational.

 

[Welder Dave]

There's a video on YouTube of one. I watched a show years ago that featured one. I think they could be used to make drainage channels. They could drive sideways too.

 

[Willie B]

There's a video on YouTube of one. I watched a show years ago that featured one. I think they could be used to make drainage channels. They could drive sideways too.

I've seen several short films. Wierd machine, wasn't a sales success. Those I have seen were in snow.

 

[Welder Dave]

The video I watched was in the snow. I saw a large version of a screw drive vehicle on a show called Science International years ago.

 

[DB2]

About those crawlers I photo'd today.
First one-Dwight run it out of the barn where it had been setting for the last {almost} two years.
It hadn't been started since parked inside, didn't even make a full turn and fired. Repowered with
a DI-3306-1969 if he remembered correctly D6C with a added lower front counter weight for
pulling a large cultivator. Because it is a straight stack he ran it up a incline and poured the fuel to it,
has a real nice growl to the stack. The undercarriage, finals, cooling system have all been gone
through at his farm shop, helps to be a EX Cat mechanic.

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Is that a plate in place of the air compressor head ? What is under that cover on the RH side ? Looks to have a modified fuel tank.

 

[Truck Shop]

Is that a plate in place of the air compressor head ? What is under that cover on the RH side ? Looks to have a modified fuel tank.

I would answer if I could but haven't seen it in awhile and just don't remember.

 

[DB2]

Bet it sounded great under a load

 

[Truck Shop]

Bet it sounded great under a load

Oh yah it has a nice growl to it.