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Not a military vehicle at all, but thought some might enjoy it:

"Inadvertently, some of you have helped me with a quest that I have been on for some ten years now, to find more information about a 'crawler-crusher' that was designed and built for clearing on the now-defunct Cross-Florida Barge canal Project. This machine was apparently designed and built for Gregg, Gibson and Gregg, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for clearing a 13,000 acre tract of land near Lake Rodman, which was a part of this now-abandoned project.

It weighed around 300 tons, was around 20 feet wide on two tracks, each 10 feet wide, and was powered by two 270 hp Caterpillar diesels. It stood nearly 20 feet high and had a tree pusher bar protruding some distance out in front and was designed to work on a similar principle to the Le Tourneau jungle crushers but in swampy country. In side profile, it looked not unlike many World War 1 tanks but a good bit bigger and heavier."

 



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I love it, thanks for posting! When was it built?

EDIT: There's a wonderful photo of it wading across the swamp on this page, photo dated Feb 1969!

http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/1276

And another couple of wonderful photos just over halfway down this page:

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/ot-crawler-tractors-196276/index19.html



-- Edited by Roger Todd on Friday 9th of August 2013 11:05:32 PM

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I've seen the other photos of it, but that's all the info that I have.



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Here's another photo, from this page:

http://www.captainerikasfloridaboatcharters.com/photo_1.html

 



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You could try searching Cross-Florida Barge canal Project for more info on it.



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