Product Description
This tractor is available in HO 1:87, S 1:64, and O 1:48 scale. Click on the drop down menu above where it says HO and you will see the other scale options and price.
This tractor is a 45 horsepower gas crawler tractor produced circa 1915 to 1919. These crawlers continued in use through the 1920s and 1930s, but were obsolete by the late 1920s. The Forty Five was one of the first crawlers without a front tiller steering wheel, giving much improved handling. 45's were used in farming, logging, road freight hauling, and even in military use for artillery and other tasks.
The early gas crawlers were raw machines with exposed flywheels and valve assemblies, open magnetos, hand cranks that liked to break arms, and driver seats hanging off of the back similar to horse drawn plows (or acting as catapults for the driver when negotiating berms and big bumps).
This version of the 45 h.p. crawler has 20" track shoes that were an outer plate bolted on to the inner 'chain' rail. This wide track gave great mobility on softer ground, allowing farming without soil compression and logging in mud and slush.
45 h.p. crawlers were painted in a wide variety of colors, which you can find with a quick web search for images. The main colors when they were new were primarily maroon/red; green; brown; and yellow.
What you get when you purchase: When you order a tractor Shapeways prints it and mails it directly to you. The tractor arrives unpainted and you finish it off however you would like.
If you follow us here on Shapeways you will receive updates as we release new tractors or run specials. We also are on Facebook, you can click the Facebook logo on our shop front or search Facebook for "Tracmodel". You will find information on new offerings, tractor history, and other interesting things on our Facebook page, we appreciate you taking a look, 'liking', or following our page there.
Please message us with any questions you may have, we are pleased to help out.
This tractor is a 45 horsepower gas crawler tractor produced circa 1915 to 1919. These crawlers continued in use through the 1920s and 1930s, but were obsolete by the late 1920s. The Forty Five was one of the first crawlers without a front tiller steering wheel, giving much improved handling. 45's were used in farming, logging, road freight hauling, and even in military use for artillery and other tasks.
The early gas crawlers were raw machines with exposed flywheels and valve assemblies, open magnetos, hand cranks that liked to break arms, and driver seats hanging off of the back similar to horse drawn plows (or acting as catapults for the driver when negotiating berms and big bumps).
This version of the 45 h.p. crawler has 20" track shoes that were an outer plate bolted on to the inner 'chain' rail. This wide track gave great mobility on softer ground, allowing farming without soil compression and logging in mud and slush.
45 h.p. crawlers were painted in a wide variety of colors, which you can find with a quick web search for images. The main colors when they were new were primarily maroon/red; green; brown; and yellow.
What you get when you purchase: When you order a tractor Shapeways prints it and mails it directly to you. The tractor arrives unpainted and you finish it off however you would like.
If you follow us here on Shapeways you will receive updates as we release new tractors or run specials. We also are on Facebook, you can click the Facebook logo on our shop front or search Facebook for "Tracmodel". You will find information on new offerings, tractor history, and other interesting things on our Facebook page, we appreciate you taking a look, 'liking', or following our page there.
Please message us with any questions you may have, we are pleased to help out.
