Identify this WWII Bulldozer

Great picture, thanks for posting it up.

That is a D-7, I can't tell you much about the attachments however.

Bruce P.

I agree with Bruce, it is a D7 4T and would suggest very late in the war somewhere in Germany. I say that in that I see no snow which means post Battle of the Bulge. I also doubt that he made much progress after this picture was taken pushing this monster very much further. This tank would weigh more than the dozer. I also have never seen a CCU and a hydraulic system on a D7 from this period. Same thing for the armored cab.

Thanks for posting Pat,

JanM

JanM, I've never seen one with the armored cab from that period.

Found it on Pinterest while searching for Tiger Tanks.

Pat

Maybe Russian they where big on cabs with all the cold. Cannot say I have ever seen them with a armored cab. Looks to much like a real Cat to be one of the Russian built ones,but we gave them a lot of equipment to keep them moving.

The tractor looks to be a D7 1T series armour plated, the track pads are off set to allow the blade to work.
tctractors

D7 1T or 4T with LPC hydraulic blade and Le Tourneau CCU, it could probably push the tank sideways easily on a tarmac road but once one track gets in the ditch its going no where.

Look close at the far side of the tank, the far track is already off of it as you can see the drive sprocket teeth with nothing around them. That could make pushing that King Tiger even more difficult if the road wheels start biting in.

I agree that it is a D7 and with a Letourneau DDCCU on back. catskinner

I'm leaning toward the Russian theory.....my grandfather was a catskinner running a D7 (I think) cable machine building Wheeler field the day Pearl Harbor got hit.......he watched the whole thing from there......I remember seeing a picture of him from 3 days befor the hit...no cab...no hydraulics.....had a A-Frame setup for the cables............the stories he used to tell about them days....I remember every one lol