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Originally Posted by airman
OH, man, why did you do that to me? I didn't think any still existed.
I watched one rolling a street patch in Spokane. Lessee, I was about ten. That would make it 1935. The machine was fascinatiing, dirty and tired.
Your pictures are great!
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There are not many of the old rollers left. Most went to the scrap yards during WWII, as did most of the standard traction engines.
The prices of the traction engines have gone out of reach of most people these days.
My dad owned 3 over the years back before they became so expensive. Sold his last one in 97 when he moved to town.
A few years ago he decided to build one small enough to play with in town. Sold his two Model T Fords to finance buying and fabricating the matterials he needed.
Was 3 years before he fired it for the first time and 4 years before he had it the way he wanted it.
A 5/8th scale Wood Brothers 22/70. It weighs over 3 ton and will pull a 3 bottom plow, so it may be a scale model but it`s not exactly what you could call a toy like that little 1/4 scale Case in the pics above.
