[AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade

[Larry D. Goss]

I don't know how it is in TMCOTKU, but down here in "suthen" Indiana, my
customers can smell the grass growing and they're getting anxious to hop
on their tractors and ride.  Nine units came in yesterday for service.
By the weekend, this place could look like a used tractor lot.  So I
just naturally have "tractors" on my mind.  Sorry about that, Farmer.
:-)

Larry

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Indiana
Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:05 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: RE: [AT] "First" diesel crawler w/ Blade

	How did all of this tractor content sneak in here?   ;-)   ;-)
;-)


	The term bulldozer is not as tightly defined as most of us would
see it...
  
1) bulldozer. The American HeritageR Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 
2000. 
...1. A heavy, driver-operated machine for clearing and grading land,
usually having 
continuous treads and a broad hydraulic blade in front. 2. An
overbearing person;...
 
	Another source just said a large tractor.
	I found one news report that called what I would call a "pan
scraper" a bulldozer. On 
the Indy news stations they call what I would call a loader (commonly
called a "pay 
loader" around here) a bulldozer.


	A bit of info:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltractor.htm

	I could not find much of anything about the "first diesel
bulldozer"
-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish
Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. Here 100
years 
before the revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net


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