Monster Crawler

Majorman

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Location

Scarning, Norfolk, England

• Dec 12, 2023

• #1

I came across this video on the Web. I have seen one of these in the flesh but never seen one work or heard one run. It is impressive!!!!
Dozer

 

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Bob Bancroft

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Location

Aurora NY

• Dec 12, 2023

• #2

MacFadden's is about 2.5 hours east of me. The steam pageant, in Canandaigua, is about an hour west. I enjoy going, but find I'm limited to time on my feet anymore. If I'm going to really enjoy the whole grounds, I'm going to have to be one of those old timers scooting around in a golf cart.

 

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rick n ohio

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• Dec 12, 2023

• #3

That things a beast must of been quite the dozer in its hay day.

 

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caterpillar guy

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• Dec 12, 2023

• #4

Yup quite the machine . Go deaf while you run it and don't let the RPMs drop off or it is done for. I would have to see how D-8or 9 would work next to it over a days time. The Old D-9 would not lose power like those deriots would under a hard push.

 

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sms

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• Dec 12, 2023

• #5

The Historical Construction Equipment Show comes back to Canandaigua Pageant of Steam in 2024.

 

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Bob Bancroft

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Location

Aurora NY

• Dec 12, 2023

• #6

Neat! I missed it last time.

 

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Bob Bancroft

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Location

Aurora NY

• Dec 12, 2023

• #7

I saw that comparison, or competition, once. It was pretty close. I don't remember what size the Cat was.

 

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KL in Wi

Member

• Dec 12, 2023

• #8

Another impressive machine of it's day is the Allis Chalmers HD41

 

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NFI

Member

• Dec 12, 2023

• #9

They had one in the movie Lilies of the Field from the early sixties.

 

waugh621

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Location

West central ohio

• Dec 12, 2023

• #10

I can atest to that i run a '66 d8h and it will lose traction long before that engine starts to drag.

 

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DaveBN

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Location

Western lower Michigan

• Dec 12, 2023

• #11

A mighty beast. Sounds like the tracks could use some grease.
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matthies

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• Dec 12, 2023

• #12

Looks like you could adjust the tracks tighter and build up the grousers.

 

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4wdtom

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• Dec 12, 2023

• #13

I believe the Zagray Farm in Colchester CT has one but I am not sure it is that exact model. If I remember it does have twin 6-71s.

 

RBnSC

Well-known Member

• Dec 12, 2023

• #14

We had a number of trucks with Detroit diesels and a loader with a 671. I hope that operator had ear plugs.
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bob p mn

Member

• Dec 12, 2023

• #15

Back in 1979 or 80 I was working as a mechanic up in Silver Bay Mn on the Reserve Mining Co Milepost 7 job. we had all 3 of the big ones Cat D9 G, Allis HD 41, and the Terex 82-50. They were all big and impressive when the largest dozer I had worked on till then was a D8 H. glad I'm not working on them anymore would take all day to climb up on one. It was sure fun at the time.

 

Janicholson

Well-known Member

• Dec 12, 2023

• #16

Albany Pioneer days has a permanent exhibit of an HD41. Pretty serious, but not in the same class as the one linked to. Jim

 

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SkipperII

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• Dec 12, 2023

• #17

As a kid, I remember seeing the big Eucs being used up on Snoqualmie Pass to widen and improve the highway through the Cascade Mountains. Sometimes Dad would stop and let me watch, and listen to the screaming Jimmies(It gave him a chance to reminisce, he had run Cats building Coulee Dam.)

 

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Bob Bancroft

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Location

Aurora NY

• Dec 12, 2023

• #18

I don't know what that is, but it does not look like the HD41 in any of the pictures in Norm Swinford's book on AC.

 

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Dan S (NY)

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• Dec 12, 2023

• #19

Here is some of the crawler action at the 2014 Canandaigua show:
Dozers at Canandaigua 2014

 

Janicholson

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• Dec 12, 2023

• #20

No, it is the biggest tracked dozer ever built interesting link to Libya's Colonel Gaddafi. Jim
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