Ok.....very exciting for us...the final piece to finish the dozer collection of ACs...models made 1950-54...with Detroit's...logging tractors. We had one of these in the 1960s early 70s...that we actually sent down the road....it was real tired...yes of course about 10 years later we were looking for another one.
We located this near Salem,Or....via craigslist. It had been in John Beitel's family since the early 1960s. His father and uncles acquired it for logging on there property. John remembers it being very dependable for many years. One of the steering clutches eventually went bad and it got parked. John remembers that he didn't want to work on it...couldn't find any body to work on it. They ended up with a rubber tired skidder...and eventually a International TD15 dozer for there use. So this is the picture back in May...when we started corresponding with John.
Ok..no problem. John thought it had been sitting for 15 years or more....thought he could push it on with his skidder or dozer.
So we ask great/grand nephew Willie Miner if he could go get it. His choice was to pick it up on the 26th of Aug for display with his truck at the Brooks Truck Show...Brooks Or. John agreed to that.
So last week I contacted John to ask him to make sure the tractor would roll...knowing that they have a tendency to have stuck brake bands.....and yes they were stuck....he managed to get them loose the night before Wille got there.
So he got one to the truck show on his A model Kenworth...and now it's home where it belongs.
Got some you tube of that.
Have not seen an arch mounted like this one before....but pretty nice job.
Lots of work to do.....it will be a slow process.
Edited by AC Mel - 31 Aug 2022 at 12:53pm
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