[AT] What's the "rarest" tractor you own?

[Best, George]

My great-grandfather and grandfather had a steam powered sawmill from the late 1800's until the depression.

In the 20's they bought a Fordson locomotive from the Skagit company in Washington to haul logs to the sawmill from the woods.  They had about 2 miles of wood track going up into the woods.  When I was a kid you could still find some parts of the wood track, but I think all traces of it are pretty much gone now.

Skagit converted the Fordson into a 4 wheel drive unit that had large castiron flanged wheels with rubber tread for running on wood timber rails.  From what I understand, Skagit only made a couple engines like this.  The ones you often see in old tractor books about logging show a Fordson with concave wheels for running on logs.

Imagine a regular train track, but replace the steel rails with 6x6 wood rails.

I'll try to load a picture or two on my webserver tonight.

George

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Lew Best
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] What's the "rarest" tractor you own?

I never realized there were any wood rails?  When/where were they used?  I
thought they were iron from the beginning?

Lew near Waco, TX
website HTTP://lewslittlefarm.com


-----Original Message-----
<<snip>> Man, if we could come up with a Fordson with the wood rail wheels,
we'd probably cut down some trees and run it in the woods on our
grounds!

> <<snip>> 
> 
> I have one Fordson
with flanged wheels for running on wood train tracks. 
> 

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