Vaughan Mini Caterpillar
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2014
- Starting up the Vaughan Flex-Tred for the first time in about seven months. Originally used for cleaning under chicken barns, this unique little tractor was built as a walk behind unit by the Vaughan Motor Company of Portland, Oregon. It was originally painted grey and had a small blade on the front. The engine is a license built 5hp Wisconsin and drives the machine through independent planetary clutches and a single speed transmission all immersed in an oil bath. Vaughan originally marketed these machines to small farms and orchards for use as a universal implement carrier and offered an entire catalogue of different attachments and implements for various light duties. The advent of garden tractors all but sealed the fate of this unique design to the history books. Pioneer Acres Museum, Irricana, Alberta.
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When a mommy and daddy bulldozer love each other very much, you get a baby bulldozer.
When it grows up, it's gonna be a D9.
It's a caterpillar it will turn into a butterfly. Rainhill1829
Lol.
LMAO that's great
That's cute. I want one, slap a little blade on the front and go make every sandbox kid jealous as I level their sandcastles.
NHL mlm no no ml ml
Yeah, that would be epic... could you imagine being a little kid and tearing up the neighborhood with this tiny beast?
@@gutschecker huh?
Wallee's great great grandfather.
Haaa hahaha, nice.
Actually makes sense. Slap a blade on it and it’s ready for waste management
My wife has one of these in her night stand.
Scary stuff.
Not to alarm you but she keeps power tools in the bedroom darling
In her nightstand?
bet she gets some plowin done !!!
Lol I get it
4:30 what ur first car be looking like on the way to school
My first car was a 72 ss chevelle and it was one of three cars that I showed at cars shows before I got outa high school so not ..lol
keep that little treasure forever!!
A adorable little machine and hopefully could find one to keep in a collection X3
Maybe you should paint "kitten" on the front instead of CAT?
reith symonds Hahahaa, love it.
Kitteh. Kit kat. Break me off a piece of that bulldozer
Hahahahaha 🤣👍ilmfao!! Good one!
Ahahahahahaha gold!
YES! XD HAHAHA
Am amazed,as I have been lucky enough to acquire 3 small vaughan crawler. tractors, with implements, I believe they are about 1935 !# they came from a private museum !! wow !!
+warren thompson Incredible! That is a great bit of history you have there. Take good care of them, they are truly unique machines.
I had one of these many years ago. Mine had roller conveyor chain for tracks and I had one replacement sprocket for a normal track and I had a plow and some other attachments. However , I did not have a magneto so I ran it once using a magnetic red switch (like in a burglar alarm)and used that to trigger a CD ignition system. Timing was determined by where I duct taped a magnet on the flywheel. I passed it on to a friend that I had worked with when I was moving to a location with limited space around 1978. I sent him the link to this video so may hear what has happened to it since. There have been quite a few times that I wished I still had it.
That is The cutest little crawler! I'm gona have to add that to the wish list lol
4:23
They see me rollin, they hatin
This would look great in my minibike collection.
I had one basically identical to this one when I was a kid. Would have been in the mid 70's. An amazing machine, and I wish I had kept it.
Yeah they are super rare now.
Well this just made it to the top of my "needs" list.
That is sweet!! Cute little thing! Like the way it drove away by itself. Thanks for sharing with us, Neat!!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed.
I remember this little thing at the i
Irricana pioneer days in 2015. It’s even on my grandfathers memorial card with him sitting on it. I would quite like to come back but that would require me sleeping in a tent or box camper because I would refuse to go there without being his model t in a pull behind trailer. It wouldn’t feel right going to a pioneer days without it, I’ve been going to Beaverlodge’s with it for as much of my childhood and early to mid teens as I can remember.
Beaverlodge is a fantastic place, glad to hear you have some memories with this old machine, we'll take good care of it. Hope you can make it down here again sometime.
5:33---"Hey wait up !! C'mon wait up !! You guys never let me play !!"
LOL
Love it, especially the 'following daddy' bit!
Getting there is all the fun! No hurry, no worry.
But a bit of a headache on hard surfaces, best to stick to grass.
looks like it would be great as a small driveway plow
That is SO CUTE!!!!!!!!!! I was overwhelmed with its cuteness, I couldn’t stop saying to myself how cute it was. Great no you have me wanting one, oh well 😔 I might never find one but that doesn’t matter.
Sadly they are quite rare.
And bobcat CLAIMS credit for the mini skid!
Little do they know...
I look after you you are a great inspiration love your videos keep up the good work
Thank you so much, got more on the way I hope you enjoy.
Small machine back in 1829 awesome video keep up the good work friend bless you not much room to play around with it
Thanks so much.
Awesome. need a little blade, some rippers and a grapple.
bet it will pull a 7 bottom plow hahaha. these little garden Tractor crawlers are cool! I need one of those!
that would be awesome to replace shoveling snow off my drive and walk.
We need these things running around clearing people's driveways of snow
It would be great if they where still built.
@@Rainhill1829 lol I wish I was a designer and design my own version of this thing but I don't have the money or resources to build a prototype and also I can't draw for shit
The engine looks similar to a Wisconsin, but the carburetor is off a Briggs & Stratton engine for sure, very nicely fabricated intake adapter. Very cool machine, I wish I had one!
Damned if it isn’t Wall-E.
Cool little tractor. 👍
a lovley little crawler,
Right?!
That would make a wonderful restoration project. Yes! Restore it!
That would be neat but parts are all but non existent for them.
The "I'm on my way" bit killed me 🤣🤣
LOL.
Fantastic neutral turn! Thank you
My cousin had one of the Cats....incredible little machine. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
Cool.
That's awesome I didn't realize these even exist like it very neat
+slantfish65sd Thanks, she is unique.
Cool little Kitty Cat!
Oh yeah😎
I like when he's chasin after daddy !
Looks like old mate hates that thing 😂
It's Brum's tracked cousin.
I love this old girl but boy does it give you a headache after a little while.
just the thing to recover a bogged ride on lawn mower.............
To quote Wil Smith in Independence Day," I've got to get me one of these!"
Wish they still built them.
That is fantastic! Nice work!
Good fun.
NICE little guy and ALL dozers are rough. That's why it had a blade, to smooth out the humps.
Cuter than a kitten!
Okay, no more excuses. I'm subscribing for this!
Thanks so much, hope you enjoy.
Your Vaughan is a WS model and a lot of them did get converted to riders. I have a factory rider (model WSR) and I have friends that have four more of them. The factory riders has much wider tracks on them which would make them more stable.
Very amazing video. Loved it.
Thanks so much.
I just love this little cat I would so love to buy One
It's good fun.
I love the ghost ride....
Man I need this thing for a daily driver
It's a tooth rattler.
Thank god for men with vision.
Here here.
nice tractor and a very good video!
Thanks, it is a real joy to drive.
That looks like a relaxing ride if you ask me kicking your feet up and lay back
Imagine waking up and seeing this under the Christmas tree.
Pure delight.
I wanna have that !!!!! :-) ... so cool
Well done and fun to watch this ..
Thank you.
That thing is awesome. I am building a small bulldozer for my best friend's son. One that actually works. I am using the trailer ks and gearing from a high end snowblower. I may have to use a different gearbox but I'll figure it out as I go ahead. Thanks for the video!!
No problem, best of luck on your project👍
@@Rainhill1829 Thank you. I have several projects that I want to use to start my channel with. I just located a !983 Yamaha 200cc three wheeler that was in a scrapyard and someone rescued it and now it sits in a barn waiting for me to come and rescue it again. Evidently it looks like it fell from the sky with our a parachute. I believe that would be a good first project. What do you think my friend?
Keeping the thumb off the crank, that's a good practice to keep, many fellas have broken their wrists holding it with their thumb
I do my best to try to keep my thumb on the right side but this little fellow has such a loose crank powl on it that it tends to fall off the crank if you don't hold it tightly. Its rather annoying.
*ITS ADORABLE I NEED ONE*
Hahaha.. funny the drive by👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁
great video keep up the good work
Thanks so much.
6:07
When you win the argument and they say something under their breath.
Neat machine
4:23 haters gonna hate....swag.
Hells yes.
Классный мотоблок!
That’s so dope!
SO Cool!!!
Wish I could find one!!
No kidding, so far this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere.
What does that huge crankshaft go to that's seen standing up at 3:46? and AWESOME crawler too, by the way!
themadmailler Thanks for the kind words. That big crank came from a Cooper Bessemer GMV-6. They where once quite common around here. Giant natural gas fed engines used to pump compressed natural gas through pipelines, you can see the pump eccentric on each of the three crank throws. They came in a number of sizes, this one was a V6, made about 660hp. Most where replaced with jet turbine engines in recent years. I don't know the exact series, but here is a link to a video of an operating GMV-10 version of this engine. Exact same engine only with ten cylinders, pretty cool: czcams.com/video/f-UiGx2sepk/video.html
Very cool! thanks for the vid. do you have the rest of the engine waiting to be assembled?
themadmailler Sadly those engines where dismantled many years ago, but on the bright side, thousands more are still in use all over the world.
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You've got a good eye.
Too cute!
Cute little machine! I bet it's still fun to drive even as rough as it looks!
Can confirm.
Vaughan basically modified a Wisconsin AG/AH for use on their mini endless tread tractors. The ones I have seen have air vane governors, but yours does not. I would rethink how you start this engine. Never wrap your hand completely around the starter handle, and never use it to make a complete rotation. Failure to use a hand crank properly can cause a broken wrist or arm if the engine kicks back. You only need to crank it slowly one quarter rotation, only engaging your palm with the handle. A properly tuned engine will start in less than 5 cranks even if it sits for 10+ years! Very cool tractor, I would love to own one one day. I love the Rumely Oil Pull as well...
Its true it doesn't start well, the carburetor is the incorrect one and the float refuses to stay where we set it, so cold starts are a battle. Once warm, it starts like a dream. Sadly I have to push it through two power strokes to get it to catch, that's why grip the crank that way, I hope I wont have to with the proper carb. Thanks a lot for the data on her history, every little bit helps.
you ever try starting it with a big drill?
Thought about it, the compression isn't too bad.
@@Rainhill1829 maybe the ol' fake recoil- wrap a rope around and yank it
electric drill?
That first 3 minutes could be 45 seconds and equally effective.
Wall-E's Grandfather!
That thing is so cute exspecialy when it was following the big steam engine whith no one on it .all I could think of is ..mommy wait I'm coming lol
brian meattey Haha thanks so much.
@@Rainhill1829 no problem it's just awsome I'd love to find something like that lol ...godbless bud .and for replying to my comment I'm subscribe to your channel ...👍
Very nice
amazing
I must have one!
The music is perfect, it changes tone just as the large flywheel of the Rumely comes into view, makes me wish i was at the itaska steam show.
Oh yeah and what song is that?
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed. The song is called "Manchester 1866" from the "Steamboy" motion picture soundtrack.
Over at the troy pipeline yard in Houston they have one a bit bigger. Its one of those that they use to lay pipe with. I didn't think it would be real i guess it must be
Those pipe layer unit's are fascinating to watch work.
I want one. It's cute.
Very cool!
Hook that beast up to a middle buster and turn over taters. I'd love to see the catalog, pick out some attachments. I have a B1 Allis lawn tractor, I'm collecting toys for it.
Nice, the Allis is a cool machine, have seen a few, cool engine.
@@Rainhill1829 The B1 is a 1961 and the model 19's serial numbers say it's a 59. Seven and a quarter big ol horses. Thank God for big flywheels.
for the carb problem, could you run a downdraft on this thing? maybe a interwar side draft motorbike carb, like a linkert?
The carb and intake pipe are actually not original, we are on the hunt for an original one now.
I WANT THAT THING
It's a kiddie cat. :)
I wish I got one of these bad boys instead of some stupid big wheel when I was growing up...
You and I would have totally gotten along as siblings - unless our parents only bought ONE of these tractors and made us SHARE it...
If anyone knows any history on these machines, please leave some info, I am very interested to know.
www.acmoc.org/bb/showthread.php?5765-Not-a-Cat-a-Vaughn
Rainhill1829 these were very popular on the farms on Vashon island wa. They made a walk behind model, that you could hook up many differant attachments ,I actually owned one for many years.Pete
Thanks a ton, I finally managed to find some literature on them, turns out this one began life as a walk behind unit.
Super cool, thanks for the info.
can i get one? to india.
I'd hook up a 1 or 2 mini disc plow and use in my garden, looks like it " tracked" a straight line or to just have some fun.
NICE !
Awesome for plowing a driveway and just hard working machine right there would love to own one. Wonder how many are still left?
Sadly very few remain.
You should mount a plow to the front.. something very heavy duty. Also.. get a nice KnN air filter.. and maybe some matching paint and go crazy with it
Just wonderful
Thanks.
Чудесная техника !
cool factor is off the scale,single cylinder 5 hp and riding it like you are having a snooze again cool,put little blade on the front and clean my driveway in the winter,lol
It would be neat to find some of the implements they used.
That little thang is bad ass
People love it.
@@Rainhill1829 its definitely on my Christmas list
Cool!
I wonder if that would work for shoveling the side walks around my neighborhood
Pokemon are getting stranger for every new game that comes out.
It's as hard to wake up as Snorlax.
Can u do a video showing what the mini bulldozer can pull?
There will be one forthcoming this year hopefully.
Too bad someone doesn't build these again and make them affordable for the public
That would be awesome.