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As a young boy growing up in Breckenridge, Michigan I lived across the B&W co-op Elevator. I loved watching the farmers bring their crops to town with their big trucks and tractors. I remember seeing my first big tractors as some of them pulled 5 gravity wagons behind them. That was my first thought of a awesome sight at a very young age. Five wagons behind one tractor didn’t seem like a big deal to most kids, but I must have had something inside me even at 7 years old to stare at that cool sight. I remember a neighbor boy who’s dad drove a old Mack Dump Truck , it had a lead and a pup trailer. I thought that was SO cool too. I remember sitting in school many days drawing trucks and tractors when I was supposed to be doing my school work. I can see now after building 200 different models of all kinds of machines, I had a good imagination way back as a child. When I was 11 years old , another neighbor friend bought a little 12 hp doodlebug /tractor. I was always at his house as he worked and puttered on it. He outgrew it over a couple years and I asked him if I could buy it. He said sure, he wanted $40.00 for it. I had $20.00 and I had a pretty new bike I had just bought from picking pickles in the fields all summer. So I sold the bike at a loss and bought the doodlebug. That was the best day of my childhood. LOL !
Shortly after that was when we moved out to the farm with my stepdad. I got to drive that little tractor across country for my first solo journey of my life. It was only a 12 mile drive, but it seemed like I was on my way to see America, ha,ha. I had so much fun on that little homeade tractor, I really got my forty bucks worth buying it. Later I bought a newer , bigger engine for it. That was also a very cool day. ha,ha.
Little did I know I would one day see some real monster machines and get to climb on them and actually get in the drivers seat and operate them. I never get tired of seeing machinery, I still get a little rush seeing all kinds of machinery. machinery. This picture of me on this Super Dozer, was no exception
and I am planning on seeing more big machines in a few weeks on our next trip.
My toy building hobby is the greatest, but all these other adventures are a result of my toy building and that is also very COOL!
TWO BELOW ZERO AGAIN THIS MORNING- Another bitter cold morning in Gaylord, we are getting light snow this morning.
HENDRICKSON HEAVY HAUL TRUCK MODEL – I have finished the construction and the parts are being sanded and by tonight they should all be primed. Tomorrow I will start painting the parts.
KOMATSU 575A SUPER DOZER MODEL- I worked a little more on the plans for this next model. The real one is 40 feet long and the plans for the model is very close to 40 inches long. So I will call it 1/12th scale . With the front blade being 24 feet wide , my model blade will be 24inches wide. . It will weigh over 50 lbs. My first design came out about 1/14th scale, but I wanted it to be a little bigger so I redid it a little bigger.
Mon. I will cut out the first Super Dozer parts .
