Really BIG toy.
There is always something entertaining going on up at the farm.
This weekend I was fighting a losing battle with a front suspension unit when a truly enormous low loader arrived - carrying what could only be decribed as 20 tons of earth and rust.
 Where do you want this guv? shouted the driver.
“er, MALCOLM!” I yelled.
 In fact it wasn’t an enormous Renault, but a very rare and ancient American made tractor - an Allis -Chalmers HD14 bulldozer from around 1942
It had been bought by Malcolm’s landlord - a genial farmer with a penchant for old agricultural relics - most of which litter the farm like stranded first world war battleships.
We had a very happy half hour watching them hitch up the crane and lower the thing to the ground.
 The race is now on to see who drives off the farm first, the A-C or ROJ.
 Oh yes and ROJ. I spent the weekend refurbishing and refitting the steering collumn. I can now fit the steering wheel and sit in the car going ‘brumm, brumm’.
October 13th, 2006 at 9:57 am
You can just about make out a length of sheet steel with a bend at the end in the last photo. The dozer tracks were rested on those, and I\’d assumed they were an attempt to stop it from sinking into the ground.
All became clear yesterday when another Allis Chalmers dozer (a slightly bigger model) turned up with a tow rope. Turns out the steel is used as a skid, and that\’s how you move a tracked vehicle around when the tracks have rusted solid.