PHOTO - County Super 4 4wd tractor

Hi gang;
County Commercial Cars of Fleet in Hampshire (mid south coastal area of England) started building crawlers based on tractors and half tracks on trucks in the early 1920's. They concentrated on conversions on Fordsons starting with the model N and continued until the mid-1980's with equel sized wheeled tractors.
The 1st of these was based on the Fordson Super Major from 1960 onwards. This is about 1963 model 52HP 6f 6F & 2R gears. The drive was taken from a modified half shaft on both sides with the drive shafts running down the tractor sides to the front axle. High lugging performance but poor turning circle.
Cheers David

One of our long time fire department members owns a County that has quite the reputation for pulling anything.

One day at a large drill, got a Pumper weighting about 40,000# stuck in the mud.

Rigged up pulling cables around a tree, used the County to provide the pulling effort, with a fairly large John Deere utility tractor hooked to the front of the County to hold it's front end down. The tractors where on pavement perpendicular to the stuck truck. I was fairly young, helped get it rigged up, but then got sent off to watch the pull from a safe distance (and quite a bit of amazement!)

Jim