Gun tractor abandoned

[lynx42]

And here was me trying to work out which country along the equator the photo was take in.

Rick

[cletrac (RIP)]

That BC country is all vertical. That's why his picture is like that.

[Brett Nicholls]

On serious note....what a shame.

Regards,
Brett.

[maple_leaf_eh]

There is a large family of logging vehicles and pneumatic rock drills built on late WW2 tracked chassises. The majority that I have been able to identify are on M32 ARV lowers, followed by HVSS M4s, and assorted crawler tractors.

What boggles my mind is that the logging companies have a complete secondary industry to repair, rebuild and service these very old vehicles with re-rubbered tracks, road wheels and final drives. And AFAIK, no one in the HMV community knows about them!

[Alex van de Wetering]

I think I have seen this one in a youtube video before; It's based on a rare M6 High speed tractor.

There is a thread on the HMVF forum on surviving M6 tractors and there is only a handful that survive. There is a restored one here in Holland and another in the process of being restored in the US (?), that was rescued about a year ago.

Alex

[Luke R]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

I think I have seen this one in a youtube video before; It's based on a rare M6 High speed tractor.

There is a thread on the HMVF forum on surviving M6 tractors and there is only a handful that survive. There is a restored one here in Holland and another in the process of being restored in the US (?), that was rescued about a year ago.

Alex

I've seen the clip to.
Look up youtuber skadill, he has a vid of this unit and a number of vids on these types of machinery

[gary_bath_jr]

Here are a couple of rock drillers I found that were made from old tanks, one is missing the tracks and I almost had it for free. The blue and yellow )missing the tracks) machines are owned by the same guy and still uses them that is why he changed his mind about the yellow one.

They appear to be the same type tracks while the third one is a Sherman (or likely Firefly) chassis and is called a "Tank Driller". One day I am going to stop and talk to the owner of the Tank Driller and see if he will get rid of it as I know it has sat idle for about 8 years in the same spot along the highway.

Gary