We are considering a PRFHS project to present a historical circa 1930 Caterpillar Tractor for the community.
Ron and Doug Fuller, longtime woodlot owners in the qathet Region near Hammil Hill, own this rare example of a circa 1930 cable-actuated Caterpillar tractor that was owned by Burg and Johnson. They are prepared to part with it if a suitable restoration project and display location can be found.
This would be a follow-on project for PRFHS to our providing the logging artifacts displayed along the Willingdon Beach Trail (1985 to 2010, now owned and managed by the City), the steam donkey at Lindsay Park, and the steam donkey at Paradise Exhibition Park (The Farmers Market on McLeod Road).
The artifact relevance is that it’s cable-actuated; the one on the WBTrail is hydraulic.
Before undertaking this project, we would require a volunteer project manager and a volunteer team who would undertake such steps as:
- Check out the tractor, decide how much restoration would be practical, determine how to move it, and where it could be restored
- Consider and negotiate possible display locations
- Research the previous owners of this tractor and the history of tractors of this type in general for the interpretive panels
- Implement the project
Some short (11 seconds each) videos of similar tractors