“SEEING IS BELIEVING” 1940s ALLIS-CHALMERS HD5 CRAWLER TRACTOR SALES FILM BULLDOZER JC10144
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This late 1940s color promotional film for Allis-Chalmers provides a look at the industrial machinery company’s latest HD5 model crawler tractor, using demonstrations from around the country to show its versatility in a variety of agricultural, logging, and construction applications (TRT 16:26).
Opening titles: “Seeing is Believing, presented by Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division” (0:08). An excavator dumps dirt into a pickup truck. A continuous track vehicle pushes logs uphill. The Model HD5 is introduced, moving snow, soil, and lime (0:28). Plowing through a heavy snowfall in a rural field (1:19). The base model HD5 tractor is displayed on a rotating base. Half of the engine is exposed, revealing its inner workings (1:30). Closeup on the tractor’s diesel engine (1:42). Closeup on a piston moving up and down. The clutch assembly in a cutaway (2:02). The transmission, gear shift assembly, and steering clutches (2:40). The truck frame (3:15). Testing the tractor in harsh, muddy conditions. A montage of prototypes driving obstacle courses and hauling heavy loads (3:31). Construction site excavation. Exterior: “Contra Costa Agency,” a California Fruit Exchange warehouse (4:17). Backfilling and leveling. Loading gravel into a truck (4:58). Using the HD5 as a bulldozer to knock down a tree on the campus of Northwestern University (5:46). Shoveling snow in a downtown rural suburb (6:22). A “B-Type” Snowshovel is shown plowing snow on a road. Another HD5 uses a chain to tow a tree trunk through thickly wooded terrain (6:51). A winch is used to drag lumber in the building of a ski lodge. Logging work in the Pacific Northwest as well as the south (7:40). In Wisconsin, an HD5 uses a skid loader attachment to transport large stacks of lumber (9:14). Narration: “Even a lady operator can handle a 5 without difficulty.” Closeup on a smiling woman in the driver’s seat of a tractor (10:05). A trailer drags tree-length logs. The tractor crawls through deep mud, showing off (10:13). Hauling and installing a pipeline in Illinois (11:11). Shoveling gravel into a trench in Washington. Another does the same for a waterway in San Francisco (11:31). The HD5 works on a Los Angeles streetcar line, with a garage of streetcars in the background (12:02). Working in a city dump piled high with trash. Driving through a Chicago sewer line under construction (12:32). Organizing heaps of coal for a Chicago railroad (13:04). Building a road at an asphalt plant, hauling gravel and pushing a truck (13:27). An HD5 pulls a scraper, spreading soil (14:00). Digging an irrigation ditch in the south. Stockpiling coal (14:22). Working in concert with an AD series grader. Montage of previous scenes. Narration: “Amaze yourself as others have been amazed…” (15:01). “The End” (16:12).
Allis-Chalmers was founded in 1901 in West Allis, Wisconsin, and remained in operation until 1999. The Allis-Chalmers HD5 made its debut in 1946. By the end of its 1955 production run, over 25,000 models had been produced.
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These are excellent old crawlers.
I have one of those in the barn, has the loader on it. Still runs and works.
Of course, it's an Allis Chalmers
I have five.
Frank I'm envious of you my Friend. Thay sure where universal work horses. I operated a Dynahoe -190 with that Detroit Diesel (353) they showed. The military liked it for swapping parts.
What's cool about these postings is that there's always SOMEONE still left alive who has some direct experience.
Fewer and fewer Every day ...
I still run my 1958 allis HD6 consistently on my property
Today's commercial would be dealer driven "look how complicated...no farmer will be able to repair it himself"
My Dad bought an old used one of these in the early 1960s. I started running it when I was 15 or so, about 1964. It had the 'Tracto-Shovel' bucket setup. A well worn machine it was loose and sloppy but did the work, you just had to learn how to handle it. We built a lot of roadway with it, moved dirt, dug gravel. Had an old 1947 GMC dump truck with a wide box - hauled the HD5 in the back of it to the pit and back. Always wondered if that was why there were broken springs on the truck - LOL - could not have been the way I overloaded the truck all summer long. When my wife and I moved back to town it was still running - Memorial Day weekend 1977 I dug the cellar for the house we are still living in with it. My brother and I finally scrapped it - worn out but did a LOT of work in its lifetime. You could not kill that Detroit Diesel - but then there were a million of them out there running everything from landing craft to reefer refrigeration units as well as trucks and tractors.
I recognize this channel
Thanks for sharing that, pretty cool in many ways. "Interesting times" to have grown up in.
I love at 5:20 how the truck drivers hanging on the back of the crawler while the other fella fills the truck, old America!
Men with 6th sense , pride, knowledge respect.,
That was so 80 years ago
Be a sacking offense today .
That does it! The next time I need to shovel, drag, shove or grab a shedload of something, I’m using an Allis-Chalmers HD5!
Thanks, Periscope! I can still hear the snarl of the 2-71's in the 5's of years ago. Thanks again!
THAT'S IT! I'M BUYING ONE!
My daughter and I read “Katy and the Snow Plow”. It’s about a tractor much like this one. She enjoyed this video. Thanks
Man , that tractor is something!!It does it all well!
My HD5B has dozer blade and a big Carco winch on the back, starts right up even if has been sitting for a month. Well, a touch of ether helps sometimes. Not an easy machine to run, but reliable.
I Owned an Allis-Chalmers H-3, about a 1962 or so, 4 cylinder diesel with a dozer blade, and I am Sorry I sold it!!!.....It was a Great Little Machine!!
For a small 4 cylinder Diesel, it was as much power as needed!!.....I got Years of use, and it only let Me down once.....When the track rolled off...
Thank you for posting this!!!!!
A VERY UNIQUE MACHINE AND VERY VERSITILE TOO
Simple electronics learnt to operate in late fifties
Cold in winter but.
Charlie
The quality of yesteryears.
Thanks
I hope they added a cab at some point! Would be cold or wet in most weather.
If I remember from the operator manual, there was a tube and fabric "cab" available. Wouldn't count on it to keep the heat in or the rain out after a few years of use.
Try to find something made like that today lol
Another comment is seeming the Army Duce and a half with the front boom to load logs onto the logging truck. A local Sewer company had the Ton and a quarter surplus Army rig. To raise manholes. They keep it up till the earliest 2000s
There was an ace shop guy who had restored the vehicle, he kept the Rig in tip top shape.
To operate. The Logger who logged my land in Jefferson county WA. State. Let me Level my lot. He used it with front forks on the Loader to move Logs. The HD-5 also had a heavy duty rear winch, it could pull the Loader out of any stuck position. Then he bolted on a bucket that had for forks square welded plate, to slide the Loader on. Easy change from Fork to Loader. The big control Levers for the clutch. I did a boo, boo. By leaving the lock in for a bucket raise I left it forward one time. Could not figure out why HD-5 would not start again. I always checked the two Levers after that to make sure that they were in the center ( neutral) position after that. We sometimes had to jump across the starter with a welding rod to start her. She would run all day. YES that was fun with that HD-5 in the 70s, making the flat spot for the cabin.
I live in wi Allis Chalmers will always make the best tractors for all the tough jobs in the usa
Too bad the name was bought by Fiat. The West Allis factory closed nearly 40 years ago.
@@christianpetterson1784 the name wasn't bought by Fiat
@@RJ1999x I should have said that the company *merged* with Fiat, to become FiatAllis.
@@christianpetterson1784 true. The Allis Chalmers name is still in use
@@RJ1999x Sadly, it's just at name at this point, especially to someone like me who routinely drives past what remains of the old factory which is now in danger of being torn down.
Nice Thanks
That engine
Mmmmm
No ROPS, No powershift trans. No fingertip controls or air ride seats. When operators were real men.
Yeah ... nothing but fake men now.
This stuff is what built the world
I have an HD6G it takes 4 arms and two feet to operate it 🤣
Show the film of Stonehenge being created in the 50’s
Seeing is not believing as you still need faith to believe so, shouldn't be better called "Seeing is Knowing"
These days you need faith to believe what you see.
I got the experience on the first Front ( Shovel)
Allis 🙍♀️ has her Chalmers . . . 😎
super tracteur
I had one dug out my foundation and driveway u were tired after a long day of it
#WatchWesWork
When men were tough as nails .
Back when men were tuff and wanted to work
My dad had drott
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