Saturday Extra 2

[Majorman]

Howard Dungledozer

Back in the late 1940's and early 1950's there were few farm loaders as many tractors did not hydraulics. Most of the loaders of the time were industrial, cable operated ones. Howard came up with this idea to speed the job of loading animal manure onto spreaders, doing away with the hard work of forking it. The loader is fitted to a Fordson Model N running on Howard Rotapeds and has a wide funnel equipped with rotors on two shafts that is drive into the manure heap. The rotors shred the manure and it is taken from the mechanism by an elevator that carries it up and over the tractor, into waiting trailers or spreaders. There were not many of these made, it worked but was a bit impractical and, as hydraulics became more common, so did the farm loader and the Dungledozer passed into history. This is the last one in preservation.

 

[db4600]

View attachment 3600Howard Dungledozer

Back in the late 1940's and early 1950's there were few farm loaders as many tractors did not hydraulics. Most of the loaders of the time were industrial, cable operated ones. Howard came up with this idea to speed the job of loading animal manure onto spreaders, doing away with the hard work of forking it. The loader is fitted to a Fordson Model N running on Howard Rotapeds and has a wide funnel equipped with rotors on two shafts that is drive into the manure heap. The rotors shred the manure and it is taken from the mechanism by an elevator that carries it up and over the tractor, into waiting trailers or spreaders. There were not many of these made, it worked but was a bit impractical and, as hydraulics became more common, so did the farm loader and the Dungledozer passed into history. This is the last one in preservation.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but after ‘45 a lot of the boys who had been exposed to something bigger than their farm background returned with ideas and helped to advance agriculture and industry at a faster pace then seen previously wether through employment by others or by their own ventures. Locally the Keller brothers were just one such example.

 

[J Wendt]

The dungle loader looks a lot like the snow loaders I think those are Anthoney maybe.

 

[cdmn]

Kind of reminds me or that old song "Raindrops keep falling on my head..."