Crawler tractor

[Treegeek]

I want a crawler some thing like these

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ZlnE200ms]YouTube - ‪History of Crawler Tractors‬‏[/ame]

My father is into old vintage stationery engines and recently my oldest son 13yrs old wants one too, so we have been visiting a couple of farm and collections of machinery found a couple of crawler for sale wondered if any one had any expriance or knows any thing about them ????

[Tom D]

Experience! How old do you think we are on here!

[Breezeblock]

avoid any type of dozer they are nothing but grief and bruised knuckles i hate them

[sparks]

i have a couple of fergie t20s and reguarly go to the ploughing matches(not ploughing yet though), our local chertsey match always has crawlers, go and have a look around before you commit as there are some beautys around, sometimes you can find them on ebay but they seem to make good money. i personally like vintage ransom crawlers but it depends on what you want to do with it.

heres a link to an example , regards steve

 

Cletrac AD crawler with Hercules 4 cyl. diesel engine. on eBay (end time 24-Feb-11 19:04:25 GMT)

[Treegeek]

I have been to look at a 2ninternational t6's one was narraw and wide track models both good machines £1k each i would like a ex-forestry machine with a winch possible cage/rollover bars.

Would love to have a play with one intrested in what the able to do hauling big wood wise.

I am a big kid this will be a project for next winter I am building a hover craft at the moment so need to get that finished first

[john burgess]

In the summer 2010 I was using a 1939 D4 Caterpillar with a 10 ton winch to drag windblown ash including the stumps I would put pictures up but I don't know how

[oldwoodcutter]

Back in the sixties i spent a season sat on a cat d7 doing 14 hour days,at the cost of my back and hearing.By their very nature most crawlers have had a hard life,and cat spares are not cheap,so get up very early in the morning before you part with your hard earned - Tim.

[tractorboy1]

I am a big kid this will be a project for next winter I am building a hover craft at the moment so need to get that finished first

 

Any pics? You going going to use it for skidding?

[Treegeek]

Look forward to seeing them john:thumbup:

[Treewolf]

I'd love to take a Lombard Log Hauler for a run on the local roads!