What Year was the model F first built ?

Started by ianoz, January 03, 2012, 10:01:53 PM

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ianoz

 Cat boys are saying .Best built a high track before cletrac did .

Blake Malkamaki

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ianoz

 Hi Blake , This is the thread about the hi track Best .

http://www.acmoc.org/bb/showthread.php?14854-They-say-this-is-the-first-high-track-made.


With the tiller wheel out the front , i don;t know if i myself  would class it as a proper crawler tractor .

ianoz

Hey Blake I just put a post with a link to the ACMOC forum thread on the Best Hi drive. It was flagged as spam and removed .

countryguy828

Sounds as though some people are afraid of facts in writing.

Dave
1941 Cletrac HG
1936 Cletrac E
1949 Allis-Chalmers B
1952 Allis-Chalmers CA

Blake Malkamaki

What year are they saying Best came out with theirs?
My gramps Howard van Driest was Experimental Engineer at Cletrac and Oliver Corporation. After the plant closed, he and my uncle started an excavating business, initially using Cletrac and Oliver Crawler tractors. Please help Support This Site and give your business exposure by buying a business card sized ad.

ianoz

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 Hi Blake ,The video i was trying to link says 1915 . Here is a photo of it .
Blake ,Can you check my settings please . I linked a post to a thread on ACMOC forum yesterday ;and the forum spam fighter flagged it as spam . Now when i have tryed to put a photo up ,it appears that i can't post photos .

OK the photo did come though , but when i went to preview the post ,the photo would not come up .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX7_VONUyGk

Blake Malkamaki

My gramps Howard van Driest was Experimental Engineer at Cletrac and Oliver Corporation. After the plant closed, he and my uncle started an excavating business, initially using Cletrac and Oliver Crawler tractors. Please help Support This Site and give your business exposure by buying a business card sized ad.

Blake Malkamaki

I've seen some of those track conversions for Fordson tractor with high center drive sprockets. I wouldn't consider them crawler tractors either though.
My gramps Howard van Driest was Experimental Engineer at Cletrac and Oliver Corporation. After the plant closed, he and my uncle started an excavating business, initially using Cletrac and Oliver Crawler tractors. Please help Support This Site and give your business exposure by buying a business card sized ad.

ianoz

Hi Blake , Just keep an eye on things . The original post i Put up  Still appears on my  Latest post list , But not on the forum . I will copy and paste it . again . If the spam fighter removes it ,i am not sure whether i will get automaticly banned for posting "spam" . Keep an eye out if i disappear after i post the next post .

ianoz

Ok this is a copy and paste of my original post .
Hi Blake , This is the thread about the hi track Best .

http://www.acmoc.org/bb/showthread.php?14854-They-say-this-is-the-first-high-track-made.


With the tiller wheel out the front , i don;t know if i myself  would class it as a proper crawler tractor .
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Blake Malkamaki

I put the YouTube link on your previous post. What Spam Fighter is tagging your posts?

Quote from: ianoz on January 05, 2012, 01:02:01 AM
Blake , It straight away Flagged as spam .
My gramps Howard van Driest was Experimental Engineer at Cletrac and Oliver Corporation. After the plant closed, he and my uncle started an excavating business, initially using Cletrac and Oliver Crawler tractors. Please help Support This Site and give your business exposure by buying a business card sized ad.

ianoz

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Hi Blake , This is the thread about the hi track Best .

http://www.acmoc.org/bb/showthread.php?14854-They-say-this-is-the-first-high-track-made.


With the tiller wheel out the front, i don't know if i myself  would class it as a proper crawler tractor .

ianoz

 This is from the recent post list that i can see if it comes out .
5  Cletrac Tractor Discussion / All Models Except HG, OC-3, OC-4 & General / Re: What Year was the model F first built ? on: Today at 12:31:05 PM 
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Ok this is a copy and paste of my original post .
Hi Blake , This is the thread about the hi track Best .

http://www.acmoc.org/bb/showthread.php?14854-They-say-this-is-the-first-high-track-made.


With the tiller wheel out the front , i don;t know if i myself  would class it as a proper crawler tractor .
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Blake Malkamaki

I can't even find where I can approve your message. Never had this issue before.

Blake
My gramps Howard van Driest was Experimental Engineer at Cletrac and Oliver Corporation. After the plant closed, he and my uncle started an excavating business, initially using Cletrac and Oliver Crawler tractors. Please help Support This Site and give your business exposure by buying a business card sized ad.