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Dad would haul his tractor with his 54 chevy flat bed. I don't know all the details, but it involved another vehicle, that hit the planks he used to load the tractor and disk knocking it off the truck. Dad replaced the radiator, and had it running the next day. Dad is standing next to the fireman. That was over 50 years ago. Stan
 
In our area, in the 1930's, farming with crawlers was common. Often they were moved like that, with a 1 1/2 or 2 ton farm truck. In one family the sons were moving a crawler and one of them, a teen ager then, sat on the crawler. Since they were just going to another field they didn't chain it. The driver made a corner and the crawler slid off all the way to the bottom of the road ditch. The boy survived but one leg never bent at the knee again. Basically a peg with a stiff foot.
 
Even small crawlers are heavier than you think. Before my time, old Charlie, here at the farm was off-loading a Cletrac 20 from a truck off an embankment. He forgot it was in gear when he hand-cranked it. It started in forward, he darted out of the way and the machine walked right over the cab of the truck.
 
The 4100 series tractors were built at FARMALL till about 1976 in late summer. They had a space down by the west tractor dock where they built 2-3-4 a day depending on parts and manpower availability. BiG heavy steel saw horses, and about 4-5 guys most days. I never ran one but they had to be similar to a Case 2470 which I have run a couple days. Beat the heck out of the 8440 Deere I ran quite a bit, and about on a par with the White 4-150 I ran for a week. That big Case rode like a Cadillac, the 28Lx26 tires helped that a lot. The Case was making 200-220 hp, I was pulling the same chisel plow twice as fast as the 4320 Deere I ran the year before. And no slippage.
The 4100 should be similar.
 
Yup it will make a mess of things quick when they slide off sideways like that or even corner ways. Never had that happen ,heard about it happening. As for the 4100.Our 4166 Would pull a 16 tooth Jd 1600 in 4th low right along. IF it got hard like during drought conditions if it would go in you could stop it in it's tracks. I once had to give up chisel plowing wheat ground till it rained some one year it just would not go in the ground. Would literally skate on top.
 
That's a Model M. I still have a few of them. I used them in my disking business. I stopped disking about 4 years ago, and just do mowing now. Stan
 
I remember the neighbor, in the early 50's, using a crawler to disk with.

Now big tractors are like crawlers using rubber tracks.
 
Our first bulldozer was an 1150 case. My brother and another knucklehead were moving it and had to go through the town. There is a sharp turn getting on the cross town it slipped off the trailer the corner of the blade dug into the asphalt. It busted it up good. My Brother was able to back it on the trailer dragging the blade. We had a friend that had one that had been underwater we bought it and fixed ours. It never was the same and we could never angle the blade again.
Ron
 
My dad always moved his dozers on the CCKW log truck. A plank broke one day and the dozer layed on its side. He was okay. Minimal damage to the machine
 
Dad told me a WW2 store about him coming through Holland towards the end of the European fighting. They were stationed in this barn like building, He said there was one place in the floor that was spongy. The boys got their hands on a spade thinking perhaps someone had hidden booze from the Germans. What they found was an Allis dozer, it looked fairly new. The guys put the floor back like they found it, hoping the owner wasn't Jewish and had been sent to a death camp. He didn't remember which dozer it was, just that it said Allis Chalmers on it.
 
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