31 thoughts on “Oliver Cletrac HG Crawler Bulldozer Mystery! Home-Built, or Factory Made???”
I remember the 2 Oliver 70s and the 60 that we had on our farm when I was a kid. I still remember the shift patterns and how the brakes were setup. Those were rather interesting to work with and my father used to tell about how he used the 60 to work his farm during WW2. He bought a 70 shortly after the war ended and my older brother bought one with a bad engine in the early 70s. He rebuilt the engine and painted it with a paint brush. When he graduated from high school he sold the tractor to Dad. We used it for a few years until the oil pump loosened up while my brother was plowing with it and it ate up the crankshaft.
Very nice and clean dozer! would have been interesting to see what the nameplate reads on the tank support. Notice the frame is cracked on both sides at the cutout for the clutch housing, maybe too much weight for that small machine!
I've owned 5 Cletrac/Oliver crawlers and they are a great baby dozer. You can use them for a lot if you remember they are little. One was used in orchard and snow plowing. It had a home made 8.5 x 3 ft blade. I plowed a full blade of snow almost vertical up a snow pile. We had a 6 ft snow fall that year.
Hey up mate the crawler looks really sweet and then to the attachment it's either a prototype or you made it in your fomer life, it just fits so well and with pieces doing more than one job perfectionist made for sure, sorry for the former life comparison as i know your weld's/finish would of been more interesting
We had one,the hydrolic pump went bad and father could not find a new pump or parts so he sold the whole machine for parts.I have a picture of it someplace if I find it I will post it.
Nice video I've always appreciated the cletrac crawler my neighbor once had a experimental massey Harris crawler I'm pretty sure the tracks and drive were otc3 adapted to massey frame and motor & tin work
It definitely one made in a factory . I have seen at least 5 different tractors with the same set up . I have an hg 42 with a home made dozer. It still gets a job done.
I had one when I was 17. I sold it to buy a D2. I wish I had kept it. I used to cut and rake hay with it also buck rake. When I bought it it came with a homemade inside arm blade with it. Ware made a loader attachment for the OC3 and the blade I had was made to work in conjunction to be lifted by the bucket. I modified the blade to outside arm and lifted similar to a Cat tool bar blade. I did a lot of dozing with it, cut roads on sidehill. I never noticed it being geared too fast. Anderson did build an inside arm blade for those but I never saw a lift system like that.
If it is home made that is not the first tractor it was on, I say this because I see unused bolt holes in the blade assembly in more than one location.
I remember the 2 Oliver 70s and the 60 that we had on our farm when I was a kid. I still remember the shift patterns and how the brakes were setup. Those were rather interesting to work with and my father used to tell about how he used the 60 to work his farm during WW2. He bought a 70 shortly after the war ended and my older brother bought one with a bad engine in the early 70s. He rebuilt the engine and painted it with a paint brush. When he graduated from high school he sold the tractor to Dad. We used it for a few years until the oil pump loosened up while my brother was plowing with it and it ate up the crankshaft.
Did you work on that at some point? Lol lol
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Gotta be homemade look at how bad the cuts in the metal are
Very nice and clean dozer! would have been interesting to see what the nameplate reads on the tank support. Notice the frame is cracked on both sides at the cutout for the clutch housing, maybe too much weight for that small machine!
Looks like an ID tag upper left of the control valve
Ive never saw fenders on a oliver,there are still many wide gauge oliver crawlers in my area however no one uses them anymore.
I've owned 5 Cletrac/Oliver crawlers and they are a great baby dozer. You can use them for a lot if you remember they are little. One was used in orchard and snow plowing. It had a home made 8.5 x 3 ft blade. I plowed a full blade of snow almost vertical up a snow pile. We had a 6 ft snow fall that year.
Hey up mate the crawler looks really sweet and then to the attachment it's either a prototype or you made it in your fomer life, it just fits so well and with pieces doing more than one job perfectionist made for sure, sorry for the former life comparison as i know your weld's/finish would of been more interesting
We had one,the hydrolic pump went bad and father could not find a new pump or parts so he sold the whole machine for parts.I have a picture of it someplace if I find it I will post it.
What a Gem. Thanks for sharing.
looks suitable for cleaning out dairy or poultry barns
My friends dad has the same machine and setup. It works pretty good. I mean they made what like 18hp?
Ther was a manufacturer tag the dozer setup on the right side just below the tank that was painted over
Nice video I've always appreciated the cletrac crawler my neighbor once had a experimental massey Harris crawler I'm pretty sure the tracks and drive were otc3 adapted to massey frame and motor & tin work
It's an Anderson dozer and that model is an earlier model dozer blade. I have the later version of the Anderson blade.
My dad had one just like it. It’ll actually move dirt really well. He traded it to another family member that still uses it.
The dozer design looks factory but the welding looks farmer made.
Chris Losey that oliver guy should see this
It definitely one made in a factory . I have seen at least 5 different tractors with the same set up . I have an hg 42 with a home made dozer. It still gets a job done.
The welding on that makes me feel good about myself. 😂
I had one when I was 17. I sold it to buy a D2. I wish I had kept it. I used to cut and rake hay with it also buck rake. When I bought it it came with a homemade inside arm blade with it. Ware made a loader attachment for the OC3 and the blade I had was made to work in conjunction to be lifted by the bucket. I modified the blade to outside arm and lifted similar to a Cat tool bar blade. I did a lot of dozing with it, cut roads on sidehill. I never noticed it being geared too fast. Anderson did build an inside arm blade for those but I never saw a lift system like that.
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That may be an Imp Dozer, but I doubt it was made for the HG originally. The Oliver Guy Chris Losey would know.
1:30 i mean, if you have a small mountain path to clear, i betcha this would've been stellar.
Factory welds back in the day usually looked awful.
Anderson dozer blade
If it is home made that is not the first tractor it was on, I say this because I see unused bolt holes in the blade assembly in more than one location.
I’d love to see it in operation. Thanks Squatch
There is a painted over tag at the 1:20 mark clean that off and it might help.
I have the same setup on my '51 OC-3.