Bulldozers are important equipment in the construction industry. They are crawlers which are equipped with a blade. Since their first appearance, bulldozers have covered a history of over 100 years. During this period, interesting anecdotes have happened from one time to another, many of which keep unknown to most modern readers. The following are some I picked from lot stuffs.
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Who Is The Inventor of Bulldozer?
There is still -no unanimous answer to the question who invented the first bulldozer. Many historians tend to attribute this reputation of having invented the bulldozer to an American named Benjamin Holt, and originally calling it a “caterpillar” or a crawler tractor. However, this would be misleading.
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Benjamin Holt and His Bulldozer
Expert, Deas Plant from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia commented that Benjamin Holt developed an endless chain tread for his steam traction engine at the end of 1904. At around the same time, the Hornsby company of England converted one of its wheeled steam traction engine to a tracklayer [crawler] format based on a patent granted to their chief engineer. Neither of these developments was a bulldozer, both were purely and simply track-laying traction engines. However, the Hornsby’s version was closer to the bulldozers we know today in that it was steered by controlling power to each track instead of having a tiller wheel out in front of the tracks as Holt’s machines did. Hornsby sold their patents to Benjamin Holt around 1913-14.
Bulldozers Came after Bulldozer Blades
As we have mentioned above, it is not certain who invented the first bulldozer; however, the bulldozer blade was in use before the invention of any tractor. It consisted of a frame with a blade at the front which was harnessed two mules. The mules would push the blade into a heap of dirt dumped by a cart and spread the dirt or push it over a bank to fill a hole or gully. The fun part came when you wanted the mules to back up for the next push.
Definition of a Bulldozer
The term bulldozer technically refers only to a shovel-like blade, over the years people have come to associate the term bulldozer to the entire vehicle both blade and crawler tractor combined.
Deas Plant added that “There is also some debate about who first fitted a bulldozer blade to a track-laying tractor, perhaps the La Plante-Choate company, one of the early manufacturers of bulldozer blades.”
Again, there are various claimants for the title of first to fit a power control to one of these bulldozer blades with Robert Gilmour Le Tourneau probably being the leading contender.
Connection between a Bulldozer and a Bull
It appears that the word bulldozer came from the habit of stronger bulls pushing their lesser rivals backwards in not-so-serious contests of strength outside of the mating season. These contests take on a more serious note during the mating season.
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Bulldozers and Bull
According to “Bulldozers”, written by Sam Sargent and Michael Alves: “Around 1880, the common usage of ‘bull-dose’ in the United States meant administering a large and efficient dose of any sort of medicine or punishment. If you ‘bull-dosed’ someone, you gave him a severe whipping or coerced or intimidated him in some other way, such as by holding a gun to his head… In 1886, with a slight variation in spelling, a ‘bulldozer‘ had come to mean both a large-caliber pistol and the person who wielded it… By the late 1800s, ‘bulldozing’ came to mean using brawny force to push over, or through, any obstacle.”
As I have said at the right beginning, the above are just some examples among lot stuffs. If you dear readers interested in this topic, you can search more information about the historical anecdotes of bulldozer on the internet.
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