Crawler Pictures Changed

[NalanZ]

We have changed the photo gallery on our web site www.wovintage.co.nz if you are interested. Unfortunately one photo caption is wrong, no doubt a few of you will soon sort it out.
Enjoy!
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[Anonymous-0]

That is an impressive assembly! Thanks for sharing the pictures. There are several models that I did not know existed.

Is the caption error the John Deere 430 which is identified as a 1950 model? I am sure the 430 did not come along until the late 50's. I believe the 1950 crawler would have been an MC or a 40.

I look forward to seeing pictures of the event next March.

 

[NalanZ]

The JD 430 was the one I had doubts about. It was not my photo and as I am very new to this vintage scene I do not have the knowledge to name some of these tractors accurately.
Here is some more information on some of the pictures.
The 1st Tractor in West Otago is a little 1919 Cleveland, the 1020 TracTracTor is 1928 & the Bates Steel Mule is 1921.
To give you some background info, NZ is about the same land area as Colorado State (& about same population). We are near the bottom of the South Island & about the 1940s Caterpillar sold 850 Cat D2 in our area,also plenty of other models. International will have sold many more TD6(plus other models) so we have had a real concentration of small agicultural crawlers in this part of the country. If we can find a lot of them (& if they still go!!!!) we should be able to muster quite a number of machines for the record attempt.
I"ll keep you informed
NalanZ