History of tracked machines thread

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Being interested in industrial history and machines equipped with tracks, below is a cool video made in Germany in 1908 of early designs. Anyone else?
 
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My dad had a Caterpillar history book that covered the first track layers. Remember the old days when you lit a fire under the engine block to get them started in cold weather?
 
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In the German film, the 2 fellows crossing the field in one look they might get shook to death. Operator vibration or shaking them was a problem that needed to be addressed. How that was fixed and how they changed over the years is industrial history I enjoy.
 
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The California Ag Museum in Woodland, Ca is well worth the visit if you're in the area. They have some of the early crawler, Holt's and later Cat.

 
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My dad had a Caterpillar history book that covered the first track layers. Remember the old days when you lit a fire under the engine block to get them started in cold weather?
yep. Dad had a 5 gal buket about 3/4 full with ashes. Dump a bunch of diesel in there and light it off.
 
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The Christie Tank. If you know you russian tanks, their early versions where based on his design
 
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Video of bulldozers weighing more than 100 tons but strangely, they aren't big until you get to the last 1/2 of the film.
 

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