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| John Deere Crawler |
John Deere Crawler heavy equipment for sale. Use for landscaping. This heavy equipment is
located in Wheatland, MO 65779.
History on Small Dozers or Crawlers
According to Nick Zubko in Clearing a Path -- Small
Dozers Make Room for a Large Customer Base:
By 1904, Benjamin Holt introduced the industry’s first “track-type tractor,”
and the crawler dozer industry was born... Holt, who was then president of the Holt Mfg. Co. (which later became Caterpillar
Inc.), developed his “caterpillar tracks” in response to traction problems most farmers experienced in a variety
of soft grounds.
History of Crawler TractorsThe crawler tractor was the basis of the first designs of the
war tanks. If the crawler we have for sale here had a shovel-like blade on front, we'd call it a small bulldozer instead
of just a small dozer.
Universal RailwayIn 1770, a rough-looking continuous track was designed a guy
named Edgeworth. But many different men in many different countries designed various versions of the crawlers. For instance,
Cayley (England) patented a continuous track in 1826 which he called a universal railway.
Carriage with Mobile TracksThirteen years or so later a Russian designed a crawler and
called his a carriage with mobile tracks. And an endless railway wheel was patented by Boydell in England in 1846.
Here at home in USA, Lombard successfully patented a steam log hauler that had continuous tracks. In America, Lombard
is credited as being the first commercial manufacturer of the tractor crawler.
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