One of LeTorneau's weirder ones

My friends who clear foliage for power companies love this one. I cant imagine a driver running this thing for very long.

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Better NOT show THAT one at a tree huggers/envrio-nazi convention!

I don't have sound on the 'puter I watched it on, but I'd GUESS those are a couple of scream'in Detroit "V" engines on the back?
 
Wondering what for? Even after stomping all
the trees you would have a mess left on the
ground. Not like you could then farm the
land etc
 
There have many inventions to try to deal with scrub forest. Remember seeing a machine in progress by a local that planned to clear a bunch of land in northern MN so he could farm it. They had a big GM Diesel on it for power. They used it for a day and suddenly it blew itself apart. Turned out the land was just swamp. Somehow they removed the engine and left the remaining pieces to sink into the swamp.
 
In the early 70s they did seismic
testing in our area for natural gas,
they parked their equipment in my dad's
millyard at night. When talking with
them they said in the winter they cut
firelanes in the north woods, Alaska,
Yukon, BC. Said if ground was frozen
and you tilted and angled the dozer
blade just right you could drive along
and shear the trees right off. They
said they kept going until spring then
found high ground and parked equipment
on mats and left a skeleton crew to
service and repair while they did
seismic testing. Then did it all again
next year.
 

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