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Crawler of the day

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rrlund

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I said yesterday that I'd post those crawlers one a day. This John Deere 440 belonged to my next older brother. Our birthdays are six days apart. Dad took us to the dealer and lte us each pick out something. he got this crawler and I got a new 3010.
Six days later on my actual birthday,he came out of the bedroom with a box. It was a four bottom mounted plow. He told me he'd had it for a while but he didn't know if my old 620 had power enough to pull it.
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Don't know if you'd like to see other similar ones but anyway here's this. Back in the 1950's I went into the local John Deere establishment and told the salesman I wanted to buy this "caterpillar". Oh-oh, he embarrassed me by letting me know not to say that word, the word was "crawler". In more recent years I got a reproduction.
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Well I do not have the AC bulldozer I had as a kid anymore. I had an Great Uncle that worked for Allis-Chalmers in their construction division. He gave me a toy bulldozer in about 1956-57. It was all plastic with rubber tracks. It did not have a blade on it but had a rear hitch to pull things. I have seen very few like it in the last 20 years. I sold about all of my toys in the mid 1980s. I needed the money for family expenses. I have since tried to buy similar ones back but some I just can not find. The Ac bulldozer and a Ferguson 30 that was had plastic body but steel three point hitch with a disk plow where the most rare. Even in the 1980s those two toy sold for just under $2000. The Ac was $750 and the Ferguson $1250. With the toy collectors around Dyersville A good friend sold them privately. The Ferguson went to England. I do not remember where the AC crawler went.

The Ferguson in the picture is the exact one I had and the AC dozer is close if it did not have the blade.
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The plow was just like this one. I wore out the original of course,but I found one to replace it.
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We had a toy dozer just like that one too,but the blade,tracks and even the front wheels were gone. That didn't stop me from pushing a lot of dirt with what was left of it.
 
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