Crawlers I photo'd recently.

[mowingman]

What make is that? Not a P&H because the cab is on the left.

Hop To Excavator??

 

[Truck Shop]

Someone needs to make a Hip Hop.

 

[DMiller]

Found on CL is a HYDRA UNIT

Excavator - heavy equipment - by owner - sale - craigslist

Hydra Unit Excavator. Located in Trout Creek. Call for information.

missoula.craigslist.org

 

[Welder Dave]

I figured it was something like that. One of the very few US made excavators with the cab on the left.

 

[Truck Shop]

Found on CL is a HYDRA UNIT

Good--I didn't want to spend the time looking, I only posted for page filler.

 

[Truck Shop]

Rare 1950 D4 Electric--kids play dozer, some were pedal and some gas.
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[Willie B]

I may have to take a new photo, I likely can't find the old one. Friends have a MEAD MIGHTY MOUSE dozer. I think 1950? era. It has a small Wisconsin engine.

 

[Truck Shop]

 

[Willie B]

I can't read the logo, is it American Road Maintainer? I feel the tractor is IH Farmall, I'll look into that.

These machines have fascinated me since my first. In the 1940s, mostly late 1940s a number of new machines based on older machines blossomed. There was a flood of machines utilizing military surplus components. ARM might have been earlier than World War II.

 

[DMiller]

Allis Called theirs a Speed Patrol Grader, for whatever reason.

 

[Willie B]

Allis Called theirs a Speed Patrol Grader, for whatever reason.

I can't speak with authority, I believe companies like American Road Machine used a variety of farm tractors to adapt. It seems ineficient to build adaptaptations from several tractors with different specs. I've seen ARM road maintainers from IH Farmall M, Mineapolis Moline, Ford 8N, and a few others.

The Austin Western Badger was a 3/4 swing cable shovel powered by an IH F30.

 

[Deere500a]

Like the Badger here's a Michigan with a AC model U. If a machine idea was good there was copies.

 

[Deere500a]

 

[Deere500a]

Something new didn't know Henry Ford's brother/family made Wilford swing shovels in the 1920s.

 

[Willie B]

Says Bay City. Bay City was well known for more conventional full sting cable shovels & cranes. I can see no mechanism to swing. I'm not clear what its purpose was, maybe a crane for some specialized job. Early McCormick Deering farm tractor is the heart of it.

 

[Deere500a]

It's on a turn table.