History of Crawler Tractors

A history of the crawler tractor and its use in logging operations. Looks at the development of the Lombard log hauler and the Caterpillar tractor. Clip is an excerpt from "Timber on the Move: A History of Log Moving Technology," a documentary film from the Forest History Society:
http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/films.html

Category:

Education

Tags:

• logging
• Caterpillar tractor
• Lombard
• crawler tractors
• loggers

[ringbolt9]

COOL

[NomaDairy]

wow thats quite the movie!

[evhgl87]

dude at 1:37 has got balls of steel.

[Mackeson3]

Typical American video. NO mention of the Hornsby -Ackroyd Crawler tractor made in England in 1896 which pre dates the Best and Holt tractors.

[c931D9]

great video! Thank you

[gangesexcavating]

i enjoyed that! a good bit of old video there. old cats RULE!

theres a guy in Canada thats into this stuff. google KING OF OBSOLETE when you get a chance. I enjoyed this old crawler tractor video a lot. Thanks for posting this up, foresthistory.

[mark151shropshire]

I think LaTourneau had a little something to do with the dozer.

[LinnTractorNut]

I wonder if anyone ever added up how many people died operating a Caterpillar, even broken down by ratio of how many units produced vs. how many killed? HORNSBY in England was the "first" full crawler powered by gasoline, and Holt wouldn't have bought the clutch steer patent from them if they didn't count. Lombard was the first practical crawler as in factory production, sales and service when Holt was still "experimenting". A few lawyers got rich arguing who invented what, prior art, etc.

[JensenSteamEngines]

Operating those caterpillars looks like so much fun...