[AT] Saskatchewan tractor trek

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Thu Jun 16 06:03:14 PDT 2005


Cecil,  I bet the folks that passed along the road behind him found the 
going easier when he was in the ditch too!  Those cleat divits make driving 
on a dirt road fun.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Saskatchewan tractor trek


> Ralph, Charlie and others, back in the late 1920s, a neighbor
> of ours in Minnesota ordered a Cat 60 which was shipped by rail to
> Austin, MN which is 25 miles away. Our neighbor hired my father to
> drive the Cat 60 home from the railhead. My father said it took all
> day long to go up there early one morning, find the Cat 60, get it
> started and unloaded and then drive it home. He apparently followed
> gravel roads all the way home but found the going easier to stay in
> the ditches as much as possible. I doubt there were any paved roads
> anywhere along the way home as even the main highway, Route 56, was
> not paved until some time in the 1940s where we lived. I don't have
> any idea what top speed on the Cat 60 was but it could not have been
> too fast.
>
> Cecil
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