Worth the Look
Worth the Look
We all seem to like the unique. Thought I'd share this.
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Windcatcher530 Dan
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Well that is really unique, never seen one what's it called?
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This is the real thing.
There is a wheat thrashing show in Goessel Kansas this last weekend. One of the club members has this Holt Track layer.
He was a high school music teacher. Years ago he saw it advertised in a paper in California. He called and the guy said he would not sell it without him coming to look at it. So he got a plane ticket to California. He left Friday after school. Looked at it and was back home for school on Monday.
The only problem it was all in pieces. The guy boxed it up and put it on a truck for Kansas.
When it got to Kansas in the winter he laid it out in his shed. With a parts list he went through all of the parts and separated it into engine, chassis, etc parts.
When it was all laid out he was missing 8 parts for it. Mostly track pads and other parts that could be made with out very much trouble.
The Holt manufacturing Co. started by Benjamin Leroy Holt (January 1, 1849 – December 5, 1920) was an American businessman and inventor who patented and manufactured the first practical crawler-type tread tractor.
Clarence Leo Best (April 21, 1878 – September 22, 1951, San Francisco, California), usually known as C. L. Best, was an American manufacturing executive. C. L. Best founded the C. L. Best Gas Traction Company in 1910 (later the C. L. Best Tractor Company) then merged his company with Holt Manufacturing Company to form Caterpillar Tractor Company in 1925. C. L. Best was chairman of the board of Caterpillar Tractor Company from its founding until his death in 1951.
There is a wheat thrashing show in Goessel Kansas this last weekend. One of the club members has this Holt Track layer.
He was a high school music teacher. Years ago he saw it advertised in a paper in California. He called and the guy said he would not sell it without him coming to look at it. So he got a plane ticket to California. He left Friday after school. Looked at it and was back home for school on Monday.
The only problem it was all in pieces. The guy boxed it up and put it on a truck for Kansas.
When it got to Kansas in the winter he laid it out in his shed. With a parts list he went through all of the parts and separated it into engine, chassis, etc parts.
When it was all laid out he was missing 8 parts for it. Mostly track pads and other parts that could be made with out very much trouble.
The Holt manufacturing Co. started by Benjamin Leroy Holt (January 1, 1849 – December 5, 1920) was an American businessman and inventor who patented and manufactured the first practical crawler-type tread tractor.
Clarence Leo Best (April 21, 1878 – September 22, 1951, San Francisco, California), usually known as C. L. Best, was an American manufacturing executive. C. L. Best founded the C. L. Best Gas Traction Company in 1910 (later the C. L. Best Tractor Company) then merged his company with Holt Manufacturing Company to form Caterpillar Tractor Company in 1925. C. L. Best was chairman of the board of Caterpillar Tractor Company from its founding until his death in 1951.
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Windcatcher530 Dan
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Terry thank you for the great story and pics !!
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That thing is something you don't see everyday.
Terry
Terry
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Another neat part of the Holt story. They found out by accident they didn't need the guide wheel on the front. There was one setting in the shop and they needed to move it. It didn't have the guide wheel on it, one of the workers got on it and guided it out side using the track breaks. Seeing that set off light bulbs and the crawler as we see it today was the results. No more guide wheel.
