Fiat Allis gone

[TaylorLambert]

Down the road from the house used to be a JohnDeere forestry and construction dealership. It moved to a bigger town and Tigercat Forestry put in a dealership and repair shop. The Manager is a friend of mine and used to sell us Deere scraper parts. He was at the auction and bought a smaller Fiat Allis dozer for his farm. He had te mechanics pull it in the shop for some repairs and parked it over night. Tey came in the next day and the dozer burnt down in the shop. The shop has several bays and an office. THere was soot all over the shop and amazingly the Propan forklift tanks were in a cage beside the dozer. An Acetylene torch set near by and a 250 000 dollar log loader and a skidder and feller bucher were all in other bays. They figure that the shop being closed down for the weekend that it deprived the fire from oxygen.