Fordson crawler/crane
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Thanks for posting... always like to see how they did things in the past.
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now that would be a great resto project!
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I climbed all over it today but found markings on neither the crawler tracks nor the crane. A web-surf turned up nothing. Can't be a one-off, but darned if I can find anything like it or an history on it outside of that it's been here as long as anyone can remember (we opened doors in 1947) and whomever brought it in isn't with us anymore.
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My guess would be a military recovery machine or used in something like the oil patch.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMuxyZMCkM]Rare RAF Fordson Roadless N Standard Tractor (With Winch + Tracks) - YouTube[/ame]
Seem to a version from the same era?
Seem to a version from the same era?
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The tracks are most likely Trackson track conversion as well as the boom. Wehr graders used them on Fordson tractors to. Trackson are the folks that got Caterpillar into the trackloader market with their Traxcavator cable buckets. My neighbor that had all the old Construction equipment had a D7 with Trackson loader and a 1/2 yard hyster dragline on the back they got at a TVA sale. It was previously a Seabee unit. Later they parted it out.
They made alot of crawler conversions but mainly Fordson. I have seen one on an AC tractor and one on a Mcormick Deering. THe AC had a backfiller blade which was just a crude blade for backfilling a trench and the Deering had a side boom on it. Heres a wiki article covering a book from Eric C Orelmann that gives some details on Cats involvement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traxcavator
They made alot of crawler conversions but mainly Fordson. I have seen one on an AC tractor and one on a Mcormick Deering. THe AC had a backfiller blade which was just a crude blade for backfilling a trench and the Deering had a side boom on it. Heres a wiki article covering a book from Eric C Orelmann that gives some details on Cats involvement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traxcavator
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDTEyJBlo_c&feature=related]Roadless 90 - YouTube[/ame]
Some related Fordson history.
Some related Fordson history.
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THat Roadless conversion was made by a British cmpany called County.
