[AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade

[crawler]

Another good reference is the book "Endless Tracks in the Woods" It is a
very good book on the history of the crawler in logging and road building.
Don't have time now to look anything up but will later.  Ed
http://www.crawlerheaven.com/index.htm



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade


> Looking through the Nebraska Tractor Test book,  the first Diesel Crawler
> they tested was Test No. 208 in July 1932.  It was a Caterpillar "Diesel"
> (apparently Diesel was the model name). The next one they tested was in
July
> 1932 and it was a Cat model 65.
>
> It that wasn't the first diesel crawler it was most likely the first
> reliable diesel crawler.  Nebraska tested it's first crawler in 1920 so if
> there had been any out before the Caterpillar they most likely would have
> tested it.
>
> According to Norm Swinfords AC construction equipment book,
> Monarch tested an Atlas Diesel in a model 75 in 1927 and it was tested in
> Montana as late as 1930 but never put into production.
>
> Reference for the librarian:
>   Nebraska Tractor Tests Since 1920 by C.H. Wendel.
>
> Allis Chalmers Construction Machinery & Industrial Equipment
> Norm Swinford,  Crestline Publishers,  ISBN 0-7603-0485-8
>
> Charlie Hill
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JParks" <jkparks at flash.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:08 AM
> Subject: [AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade
>
>
> > Below is a copy/paste of a question I rec'd from a librarian in hopes of
> > helping an inquiring patron.  (very helpful library!)  The question
> > involves
> > not just the "first" diesel powered crawler tractor, but the qualifier
> > that
> > it be a "dozer", so the blade attachment comes into question too.  All I
> > have is a WAG with a +/- of several years margin of area.  Can ya'll
> > supply
> > a more definitive and authoritative answer.  I will pass along all your
> > replies to the librarian.
> > Thanks
> > John Parks
> > Boise, ID
> > My name is Tonia Totten and I work at the Bristol Public Library and I'm
> > writing to you on behalf of a library patron who has a question that
> > hopefully you will be able to answer. The patron wants to know when the
> > first diesel powered bulldozers were made
> >
> >
> >
> >
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