Crawler = dozer. There are several names for bulldozers, some even call them cats.
Errm...no. It isn't a "dozer" unless it has a blade on it.
Harry K
Crawler = dozer. There are several names for bulldozers, some even call them cats.
You are to be commend! allot of people just don't take the time any more.
That's priceless there Mercer... The whole package...:msp_wink:
Great pictures and story.
When I was sixteen (long time ago) I took a 70 John Deere up to my grand dads farm to help him plow. We had finished the plowing and I was booming the J.D. on the trailer when grandpa walks up and is looking at the tractor with a bewildered face. He looks at me and ask why in the world dad and I think we needed such a big tractor? I sure wish he was around today to see what I farm with. I'm sure it would draw a commit like " buy more horses to plant more corn to buy more horses". I miss the wisdom of that wise old man and Know that I should have paid a lot more attention to him when I had the chance.
MO-Iron
It's funny how a lot of grandfathers live on in our lives even after they're gone, through their machines. In 1954, my granpa rolled in the driveway with the new John Deere R and it's matched 4 bottom "power troll" plow. That was "big time" then. We laugh about it now... I lost him last year, but the old R is still in my barn and I run it now and then... "Just because"... Keep that old crawler going Mercer... You can tell your son all about it, and the man who held it so dear...
Errm...no. It isn't a "dozer" unless it has a blade on it.
Harry K
Very cool! Those ole JD's are very handy machines for sure, Great to see your grandad still gettin out in the woods at that age! Alot of stories from him I'm sure, Very priceless!
Thats great that you can get out and work with him! Wish you had a video so I could hear that baby running. I have always considered it to be a crawler when used for agricultural purposes usually with out a blade.
Billy
Thanks for the pics. None of my family did anything in the woods, They don't see what enjoyment there is to go out and do stuff outside. Enjoy your time with your grandad, there is a lot to be learned by some one of his age. I am inpressed on the condition of that crawler, in real good shape for the age of it.
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