Crawler

[D65ex-12]

Come across this the other day

[jcb4cx]

interesting

[Deas Plant]

Hi, D65EX-12.
That jigger is a Fowler VF crawler with a dozer blade fitted - early-mid 1950s and NOT one of the better machines in its class from that era. Single cylinder, horizontal, fore-n-aft, approx. 25 - 30 hp, 2 stroke diesel with either cartridge start or hand start with a powder-impregnated paper lit and inserted into a 'torch' which was then screwed into the cylinder head before cranking. They came standard with both starting systems.

Just my 0.02.

[Mrsmackpaul]

They werent a bad little crawler in there day back end as in final drives were a bit weak in the castings I think mainly when used in rough conditions were stuff got caught in tracks
A lot of people say it was shock loading ie running into something hard but I think the main thing was tracks over tightened and the way we used them

Paul

Havent seen you on here for years Deas welcome back