Tough Little Bulldozer. PICS.

This CASE 310 was bought over the phone in Feb. 1957. The farmer who was in Amsterdam NY was snowed in and couldn't get his milk picked up. Guffery Bros, a CASE dealer in Fonda NY delivered it as close to the farmer as they could get. The farmer told me that it took him most of the remaining day to open his road to get the milk truck in, but he didn't have to dump milk. It came equiped with a straight blade,remote hyds. PTO and Belt pulley. He used it to remove brush rows, rocks, dig a couple of ponds,and to power the blower during silo filling time. I bought it from him in 88. I rebuilt the under carrage and painted it that year. After that it went back to work clearing land digging a pond and logging. After a close call I built the logging canopy, mounted a winch, built a belly pan and made the blade taller. The winch is off a line truck, and driven by a hyd orbit motor powered off the remote circuit.The engine is original and dog tired now. We will overhaul it and remove the logging gear, reinstall the PTO and pulley, and repaint it so it looks like it did in 88.Check it out. There's another one of those never die batteries!! Took the pic in 88 and the lights are still on.

Thanks for the nice pics. I have a 1957 ATC-Case 320. Not as nice as yours though. It is still a working tractor. I bet the cage 's weight adds to the traction. Mine is a little light.

I have a M-3 undercarriage under mine. Gives me 4 bottom rollers and 1 pad extra length and wee bit longer track frame. Replaced final drives to track. Has Oliver OC tracks with 12 inch pads.... Gene

Boy does that 310 bring back memories. My neighbor had an old 310 gas but it was painted straight highway yellow. He wore the tracks off of it wotking in the woods around his place and I used it occaisionally on my place. He pulled over 100 ft alder trees with snatch blocks and cables, graded the road, cleared brush.If I had a place with a lot of woods, that"s the machine I would have. Rugged as Sherman tank. I remember taking on a hundred feet of blackberries along an old fenceline. I drove into them with clearing forks on in the down position and I got to about 60 feet and then the tracks started slipping and I lost traction. I backed out that that bunch of blackberries followed me back like a big ol"Slinky! That"s the only time I"ve seen that little work horse stopped.
Thanks again for the pictures. That"s a great little machine you have there!

Gorgeous! What does it say under 310? Is it a gas engine?

Good looking Case. Good job. Good looking barn. That is my favorite barn. I always have loved the old arched roofs. I have an old Weyerhaeuser catalog showing all of their arched roof buildings. Thanks.

Charley Hellickson.

What engine is in it ?

Good little crawlers although a little too fast in 1st gear. I've got several of the Terractrac versions - before Case bought them out. Mine have the Continental engines.

The transaxle in your Case is made by Clark Corp. and is the same as used in many Bombariers, Terratracs and Cletracs. Also in some wheel tractors like the Avery BF and Cletrac General. All too fast but the Case torque-converter helps a lot.

Sure enjoyed the pictures and the history,would love to have one,hope the Case boys see these pictures.

Hay CharleyH, BobB,Jerry, and Gene D
Back in 57 These little dozers came in several forms and colors.There was the industrial yellow which AT used,a light cream color which CASE was starting to use to signify its utility line up, and the two tone CASE agricultural colors.I forgot to mention that we had one on the farm exactly identical to this one. It's still in the area and still going. There is another one at a local machine shop for sale, but $$$$. All of these are 148 gas. I to have an olly ( Clark) trans for parts, but haven't needed any. I did pull the brake bands and had them relined around 90. We also switched to 14" pads off a set of wore out 350 chains. The bigger pads and extra weight made a big dif. in traction. The word under 310 is "utility" which I thought should have been only on the cream colored tractors.?? As for the round roof barns; My dad got plans somewhere to build these rafters. In the winter months when work was slow in the dealership. we built rafters out of hemlock lumber. He has supplied rafters for many of the barns in the area. The design sure made for a lot of bumps on the old noggin when mowing hay to the peek, though. The good thing; The stacked hay never blew the sides of the barn out. Thanks for your responces, hope I answered your questions. PS the pic. with the 430 cabled to the dozer was a" wooops pushed a little to far"Was hung up on a loose stump.

Gotta tell ya, NOW THATS A GREAT LOOKING UNIT. Swell pictures to boot. From the looks of it, you take good care of your equiptment. Thanks for the great pictures. LOU