[AT] Clark Airborne Dozer

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Fri Jan 4 06:58:00 PST 2008


That's right Herb.  I know some of the gasoline tankers had them because I 
remember seeing them at my dad's service station.  I think the propane 
trucks and asphalt tankers used them too.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Clark Airborne Dozer


> Charlie, if memory serves, those were hauling petroleum based liquids; and
> some had a replaceable 3" (?) diameter x 1" (?) long metal as the pawn so
> the metal chain did not drag and readily wear out.
> Herb
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: 1/4/2008 12:50:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Clark Airborne Dozer
>>
>> Do you remember when some types of tanker trucks used to drag a chain
> under
>> them?
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:32 PM
>> Subject: [AT] Clark Airborne Dozer
>>
>>
>> > The nice thing about a crawler is that if would generally have a good
>> > ground in case you wanted to put a lightning rod on it...   ;-)   If 
>> > you
>> > put a rod on a rubber tired tractor you would have to drag a ground rod
>> > along behind you...   :-)
>> > I say that in jest but actually it is recommended to ground a tractor
> when
>> > doing belt work to ground out a possible static charge. Some of the old
>> > manuals recommended hanging a chain from the frame of a rubber tired
>> > tractor. I never saw that recommendation for one on steel.   :-)   We
> did
>> > most hay blower belt work with a 9N or the TO-20. I used to just lean
> the
>> > 3
>> > point Ford/Ferguson drawbar against the tractor somewhere.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > "farmer"
>> >
>> >
>> > Francis Robinson
>> > Central Indiana, USA
>> > Robinson at svs.net
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