Roy Rogers Equipment

Dan from WI · Feb 27, 2015

Sitting here with the flu, bored out of my tree watching Roy Rogers yesterday and what to my eyes appears but a Caterpillar Crawler and what appeared to be a 9N. Anybody else been checking out Roy and Dale's equipment. I wouldn't mind having a jeep like Nellybell around either.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 27, 2015

There was a Roy Rogers movie that had a 9N Ford covered up with a tarp.
It had to be a 9N, cause the movie was from aboot 1941

JRSutton · Feb 27, 2015

ha - Nellybelle's my dog's name. And here I was thinking my kids were being creative when they named her.

Dan from WI · Feb 27, 2015

The Episode I watched had some cattle rustlers who were stealing young livestock and hauling them away in a pickup.

01gentdc · Feb 27, 2015

I keep a keen eye for tractors and cars on movies ,, saw a 300 case in aparade , 1972 movie , "where legends die" Richard widmark trained a ute indian boy to become a rodeo champion

Nancy Howell · Feb 27, 2015

Was home Mon/Tues due to Dallas being iced over. Watched an episode of Gunsmoke and spotted an old horse drawn sickle mower in a barn yard.

hd6gtom · Feb 27, 2015

one of his movies with gabby hays has a WC with factory wide front end and a AC crawler with a Detroit in it. Another of his movies has Monarch crawlers in it.

Goose · Feb 27, 2015

There was a movie, "Westward the Women", about a wagon train of women going to California during the gold rush of 1849-50.

Here was this wagon train plodding across the desert-with jet contrails across the sky.

rrlund · Feb 27, 2015

I've seen the 9N and the mounted tools sitting there.

JerryS · Feb 27, 2015

When I was a kid making my once-per-week visit to town on Saturday, the big event was to take in the double-feature at the Castle Theater. It was very disconcerting to my young impressionable mind that one week Roy or Gene would be fighting stage coach robbers or Indians, and then the next they would be loading Champion or Trigger into a trailer behind a pickup. Kinda like losing faith in Santa Claus.

Like Goose, I've noticed the anachronistic jet trails in both western shoot-em-ups and even biblical epics. In one spaghetti western the hero and his girl were staggering through trackless desert, nothing on the horizon anywhere, when inexplicably a hound-type dog ambles through the scene in the background, never to be seen again.
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GeneMO · Feb 27, 2015

(quoted from post at 05:46:32 02/27/15) Sitting here with the flu, bored out of my tree watching Roy Rogers yesterday and what to my eyes appears but a Caterpillar Crawler and what appeared to be a 9N. Anybody else been checking out Roy and Dale's equipment. I wouldn't mind having a jeep like Nellybell around either.

Wonder what size Cat it was? I have a D-2, about a 1950 model.

Gene

Dan from WI · Feb 27, 2015

Gene, the hood on the Cat was about the same height as the 9N. Small machine with no loader, just the crawler.

rrlund · Feb 27, 2015

At least in Blazing Saddles they were honest about it. They stopped their horses,loaded them in a trailer and the stars got in a limo and rode away at the end.
Last scene of Blazing Saddles

Mark-Ia · Feb 27, 2015

Too bad they can't make a movie like that now without causing a riot..

da.bees · Feb 27, 2015

Roy was owner/share holder in Yellow Jacket Boats in Denison Tx. As a promotion,Roy,Carl Kiekhaefer(Kiekhaefer Mercury pioneer) and friends came down Red river in 3 Yellow Jackets powered by twin 25hp Thunderbolts. Corps of engineers kicked a gate open on Denison Dam to raise water level in the river and North Tx public schools turned out so kids could go watch their hero navigate the Red. Maybe of interest to old iron inthuststs,you aint been motor boatin til you run a Thunderbolt or Kiekhaefer engine. I still have the mark 30 from a Yellow Jacket me and my brother bought used in 1966. Rated at 25 or 28 hp depending on who you ask,the old Mark 30 pulled both of us on skis while hauling our wives,3 kids and a milk can full of iced drinks in a wood boat. The ultimate in those days was a 6 cylinder aptly nick named "screaming Meanies". For the music buffs,Roy was a founding member of the Sons Of Pioneers. Say what you will about authenticity of Roy's movies but that feller could sing.

Tubacase47 · Feb 27, 2015

In John Ford/John Wayne's epic "The Searchers' one scene has a car in the background.

rusty6 · Feb 27, 2015

One thing that always catches my eye in some of the old "western" movies, some of the cattle ranches and farms seem to be situated in semi desert locations that grow nothing more than cactus and sage brush with the odd water hole thrown in to keep them alive. Hardly seems like a fitting background for cattle ranchers. Our cattle like to eat a little grass here.

JML755 · Feb 27, 2015

Check out the 8n in the Judy Garland, Gene Kelley movie "Summer Stock". Never saw the whole movie but parts I saw, the tractor had a prominent role. I especially liked it when she drove it home "new" and had to pour water into a steaming radiator. A REAL farmer would be calling the dealership, hopping mad, not singing a song. :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KpsnEJLhpY

wilson ind · Feb 27, 2015

When I think of motorboating something else comes to mind!!

Dick2 · Feb 27, 2015

I'm still wondering what happened to Roy Rogers fast food places that were in WI in the early 70's. They sure disappeared fast.

acken fromwisc · Feb 27, 2015

My Dad worked for Kiekhaefer when it was still in Cedarburg, Wisc. We never owned any boats or outboard motors.

JMS/.MN · Feb 27, 2015

Bonnie and Clyde, robbers from the 30s.....shows big round bales in a field when they pull off the road....chubby accomplice is with them.

2x4 · Feb 27, 2015

financial problems then bankruptcy. It was a francise & they all went down, even the ones turning a profit. I ate in our local one couple times; they didn't last long.

Bret4207 · Feb 28, 2015

(quoted from post at 13:05:11 02/27/15)

(quoted from post at 05:46:32 02/27/15) Sitting here with the flu, bored out of my tree watching Roy Rogers yesterday and what to my eyes appears but a Caterpillar Crawler and what appeared to be a 9N. Anybody else been checking out Roy and Dale's equipment. I wouldn't mind having a jeep like Nellybell around either.

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Wonder what size Cat it was? I have a D-2, about a 1950 model.

Gene

I watched that episode the other night. Had to be a D2, too small to be a D4. Couldn't see enough to get any good views.

David from Kansas · Feb 28, 2015

Have a question for all you "old" movie goers. When I was very young I recall going to a movie with the folks and about the only scenes that left an impression on my then young mind was a tractor being stuck (seems like it was something like a MM U model being pulled out with a team of horses. Also had a scene in it where a guy was angry with a horse and was working it over with a pitch fork.
Anyone know what the movie could have been? It was probably in the mid 1940's.

da.bees · Feb 28, 2015

I understand the confusion Rusty. I was born in North East Tx and felt the same way first time I saw S.W. Tx ranches. I questioned ranchers about their supplimental feed programs. Cattle do exelent on the small amount of native grass and make up the bulk browsing brush. Many N.Tx. ranchers learned a hard lesson with respect to that difference. A fat healthy cow from South Texas will lose weight if brought North and put on knee deep pasture. Texas history confirms most early cattle operations were in South West Tx. Our state is so diverse from location to location there is no single typical ecosystem. If James and Nancy got the same neutrent pound for pound as S.W. grazing and hay,they could run 5 pair per acre.

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