Crawlers I photo'd recently.

[Truck Shop]

 

[Tones]

 

[Tugger2]

I notice some blather coming from the fearless leaders of our country (loosly used term) about right to repair regarding the fixing and supply of parts for old appliances,they seem to think this now might be a good idea. I wonder when they will see value in keeping all the old iron like some of the stuff above in working order instead of hacking it up and combining it with plastic and artificial brains for new throwaway junk. What abunch of rocket scientists.

 

[Truck Shop]

In action.

 

[mekanik]

My Grand dad's Cletrack. That my mother to the left of the exhaust stack.
She would be 5 or 6 I would say so the picture was taken around 1940.

 

[mekanik]

A crawler? My great great Grand Dad. Taken in northern Alberta late 1800s I would guess.

 

[Truck Shop]

That's a great couple of photos Mekanik.

Horse drawn? We have mules 33 of them in some cases.

 

[Truck Shop]

 

[kshansen]

What's the conversion factor to convert horse power to mule power?

 

[Truck Shop]

A donkey.

What's the conversion factor to convert horse power to mule power?

 

[Truck Shop]

 

[JaredV]

 

[Truck Shop]

Horses weren't used that much around here, mainly because of hillsides. Horses didn't
handle that as well as mules. Plus the mules would work all day according to a 100 year
old farmer I know. Also didn't match in a hitch.

 

[Truck Shop]

Trivia--it seems when asked most don't know what year Caterpillar started or the fact it spawned
from Best and Holt companies in 1925 in California.

 

[John C.]

Nor do they know about the landmark law suit.

 

[Tones]

 

[Truck Shop]

Nor do they know about the landmark law suit.

That's true-I've only read bits and pieces, Do you know the whole story? If so tell it please.

 

[Willie B]

Trivia--it seems when asked most don't know what year Caterpillar started or the fact it spawned
from Best and Holt companies in 1925 in California.

Hell! most of the people I know don't know what a bulldozer is. Painted yellow, it's a bulldozer.

 

[DMiller]

LOL!! Wife calls every piece of Yellow Iron either CAT or Bulldozer!!

 

[Tinkerer]

Nor do they know about the landmark law suit.

Was that the Holt-Best lawsuit in 1925 ?