A selection of crawler tractors from Belvoir Castle show 2007


(found a few photos of smaller file size)

Enjoy

Dave

Another few from my collection of photos











just a few

Dave

some good pictures, i was there as it happens. the scammel and D2 get my vote as personal favourite.

Great pictures, Dave. Thanks for posting.
The Yellow Iron from Meltham (Yorkshire) is either a T30 (Petrol Parrafin) or TD30 (Diesel), I can't imagine why anyone would want to paint it yellow rather than 'Hunting Pink'.
The Red iron from Meltham (Yorkshire) in the next picture is a very rare DB4 which is a copy (legitimate) of the Cat D4, but with all the thread sizes changed to imperial from US. Only approx 110 of these were made.

Thanks John for identifying them,
I was unsure of the models as I didn't have a show catalogue and they all look very similar.
Yes my DB book says DB4 only 110 made (probably).

The Scammell has a no nonsense look about them, plenty of them at Dorset last year. I'll post a few when Im going through the Dorset collection (about 800 photos) to upload else ware, as a lot are on the other pc.

In of on any known Crawlers tractors in preservation with a s/n to identify them is appreciated, to expand the list of known machines. (Bristol, Cat, DB, Fowler, TM, etc) Unfortunately when i took most of those i didn't get the s/n's (But i hadn't become a full on Plant spotter ) Show catalogues usually list the Steam engines sn and car & truck reg nos., but a lot don't yet list the other vehicles details

Thanks for appreciative comments,

Dave

That bonnetted 8x4 Scania is interesting ,a conversion ?

The Ultra mod showmans machine.
Thata a right piece of kit has a huge crane and a big gen set mounted on it.



















thers a selection from GDSF

Dave

nice selection of pics, heres the crawler post rammer i used to when i was a fencing contractor. has anyone seen a machine like this

Thanks Kigg and Welcome to CMN.

Interesting Machine you have there. Not seen one exactly like that but have seen them built on a wheeled dumper chassis. Looks like a custom conversion based on a Japanese Crawler Dumper chassis ( Moororka ? or similar name). you can see the seat flips for driving it either way. The hammer looks a substantial weight unit.

Colchester Tillage i think it is import used ones and rebuild them for UK market. Else were on here there was a pipeline welding rig built on a large one with a crane abit back.

At SED plant show there were several Crushers and other machines based on used chassis or using the track assemblies used in them. There was a British firm with a Jap sounding name (Hinowa) selling a selection of small forklifts and small tool carrier platforms based on the principle but built in Italy i' think it was.

- Dave

it was built from an old yanma C30 tracked dumper. An extra oil tank from a hegde trimmer was put on to power the 360kg post rammer which is mounted on old 3 point linkage. this machine is an amazing thing when it comes fencing on the rough or steep groud of devon.