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I don't have any of my own but have to share a couple of pictures I do have.
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Hope it is not the same thing we have in our area?Get well soon.

The pictures you post bring back lot of memories for this old man.
 
This is my first crawler. My grandpa "pop's" always wanted one and never got around to buying one while he was on this earth. I looked for a while and found this one it was a good deal and my awesome women that has also caught deere fever was all for buying it. Plan is to re-do it and get my pop's name put on it. Lot of projects already started but have been using this one at my dads clearing brush and its fun.. The day I brought it home my old man and I played with it for a couple hours smiling ear to ear, and im sure my grandpa was looking down at us... Its funny I was just using it this past weekend and asked my dad if he wanted to run it. His response was no he was afraid something ay break but with pops on board I think it will run forever...
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Hopefully on the down side of it here. Took these pictures at a guys place in MT. a couple years ago. Not sure how many he has sitting in the weeds but a lot I know. I have bought 2 from him, both JD Lindemans. The one on the trailer was a basket case but made it home.
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My pictures are in a busted a computer. I posted pictures under Garage Sale Bulldozer on this forum. TD15C IH if some one knows how to bring a pic to the present I would appreciate it.
Ron
 
i guess with all the ones i haul for the company ive never taken a pic of any of them, my bad, so, here is my father in law, during wwll this was part of a several truck construction crew, taken before he was returned stateside for combat injuries, they went into a mountain pass to prepare roads for the allies to run trucks on, unfortunately for them, the Germans were already in there and nobody knew it, 119 men went in, 3 came out all of them wounded, my wife still has his diary of that incident, glad it wasnt me
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Crawler wish list for classic looks: MM 2 Star, JD430, Case 310, IH T-4, Oliver Cletrac and of course a Cat D-2 and a D8H or D9H. Guess the 2 Star would be the hardest to obtain.
Some of those older Masseys are nice too.
 
Hope you get over it real quick!
A few years ago I ran across these 2 little "parts"
dozers in Berne, NY that were built to be dropped into Europe during WWII by parachute.
Sometime later I ran into the guy at a tractor show where he had a completely restored one. I know I took a picture of it but, of course, I cannot find it when I need it. I didn't write down anything about them but I'm sure somebody here knows something about these little machines.
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Heres mine after a bath. JD350B, 6 way hydraulic blade and an aftermarket cab. All the windows and doors were gone before I bought it.

Rick
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Samn40,

What is in the fields of the first photo? (At first I thought grape vines trimmed back - but seems unlikely since there is no trellis).

Those 3 little red crawlers are neat.
 
A neighbor of mine built this close to 15 years ago. Based it off an Oliver, I think an OC3. He fabricated all of the components himself, and did a superb job. Still has it, but doesn't get it out much anymore...

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Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Possibly vines for grape making as you thought. This is a photo from Italy....so I don't really know!
Sam
 
(quoted from post at 18:30:54 02/20/13) Hope you get over it real quick!
A few years ago I ran across these 2 little "parts"
dozers in Berne, NY that were built to be dropped into Europe during WWII by parachute.
Sometime later I ran into the guy at a tractor show where he had a completely restored one. I know I took a picture of it but, of course, I cannot find it when I need it. I didn't write down anything about them but I'm sure somebody here knows something about these little machines.
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I have a neighbor that lives 2 miles away from me that has one of those!! He has completely restored it and it is a neat piece! Clarke Airborne Crawler they are called.
 
Thanks Kirk,
The name had completely gone from my mind.
I sure wish I could find the picture of the complete
one.
They are quite tiny but look very capable.
 
The 953 shows what a rookie operator can do! The 160 Deere shows that even an experienced operator can have a bad day. Neither one of these are mine but did happen close by. No pics of my 953-C, will have to remedy that.
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That's it PJH Thank You. It went right to work It stacked 11000 tns of crushed concrete, graded 7.5 acres where the concrete was with 2 little glitches. Metal oil line and and a sprocket came loose as someone had the wrong bolts in it. Not bad for a machine we paid half of the price of scrap.
Ron
 
Not a classic, but this is one we just bought a couple of months ago. Brought it home pushed against a tree and it just sit in place. Took the tranny out and the 1st gear clutch packs were toast along with several other toasted parts. Put a re-manufactured tranny in it about a month ago and it is now running great.

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Brian, search this site for "Clark Airborne Crawler/Tractor. There are several photos of them and their direct descendants, U.S. Tracs.
Should be in crawlers forum/photo ad archives, primarily. Also poke here. Enjoy!
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They had a little pull behind scraper that they dropped too. A guy I used to work for had one - it had rings on each corner where the chute lines attached. I borrowed it once to build a dry dam, and it was a dandy little machine. It took a good 50 hp tractor to pull it, in fact, I had to ballast mine up pretty heavy, and it was granny low at times. He said they'd drop a couple of them into a remote area, then they'd use them to start the makings of a landing strip. After an adequate strip was built, they'd bring in something a little bigger, and so on until they had what they needed.
 
OSHA would have a heart attack with a video like that today. I dont think there was one seatbelt on any of those.
Rick
 
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