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td5doug
07-11-2007 21:29:47
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Re: T4 Crawler in reply to Ron in N.E. Colo, 07-11-2007 18:22:49
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Ron, he is correct, there were 3 models of these crawlers built, the T-4 ( 123cu.in. gas), the T-5 (135cu.in. gas) & the TD-5 ( 144cu.in. diesel). They were built from 1959 thru 1964 at the IHC plant in Hamilton Ontario Camada. They were originally manufactured as an agricultural crawler, but soon after their introduction, an industrial(construction/commercial) version came available (TC & TDC). There was also a Drott loader version available. In the earlier years usually the AG crawlers were Red & the Construction/commercial were yellow. An improved B series came along some time around late 1962 early 1963. These had improved final drives, new track chains & shoes, & other refinements. The B series were to be yellow, whether they were AG or Construction,( by this time called industrial). Also available in the B series was a Skidder version.
The Agricultural versions shared many similarities in grill/sheet metal with the 240, 340, 460 series wheel tractors. There was also a Low profile version of the Ag crawler made for a while.
All crawlers came standard with a 48" gauge width, 4 roller track frame & 5 speed transmission, optional equipment were 5 roller track frame, 38" gauge width, 68" gauge width, reverser , torque amplifier, constant run PTO, Transmission driven PTO. Other attachments were available such as 3 point hitch, PTO speed reducer, grill gaurd, skid plates , several variations of Hydraulics were available as were several different blades. I've probably missed some, but those are the major ones. As far as how many T-4's were made it is hard to say, The serial numbers ran concurently thru all the models, that is to say #501 could be a T-5, # 502 could have been a TD-5 and so on,they did not assign seperate serial # lines for each model.Also the serial # records seem to have been lost or destroyed so there is no confirmed record of total units built.
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