1945 John Deere Lindeman Crawler 

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Thanks 👍 I really miss being there. It is just too far away from me now.

The clutch is operated by the foot pedal by the left foot rest. The pedal is attached to a rocker shaft that extends over to the other side of the crawler. The linkage from the pedal comes up behind the steering lever on the right side of the crawler and attaches to a lever arm on a rocker shaft that is mounted on top of the rear plate. The mounting bracket for this end of the rocker shaft also holds the throttle lever arm ( the arm with the red knob ). The linkage extends down from a lever arm on the other end of that rocker shaft and attaches to the lever arm on the left side of an offset pivot assembly, that is mounted to the back of the rear plate. A strong spring is attached to the lever arm on the right side of that offset pivot. When the clutch pedal is pressed down, the linkage opens the drive clutch and it also rotates the spring lever arm up until it is almost at top dead center. With the spring in this position, there is basically no pressure exerted on the pedal and it takes very little effort to hold the clutch pedal down. This comes in handy when driving the crawler in parades at tractor shows because they stop and go a lot and I can sit there holding the clutch down without my foot getting tired. When I'm ready to go again, all I have to do is release the clutch pedal and the spring snaps the clutch closed and holds the clutch linkage tightly in place.

Yes .. it has new clutch discs.

The Lindeman company bought the B tractor motor units from John Deere and they did the modifications on their own. They were not a part of the John Deere company. John Deere bought Lindeman out in the mid 40's and then they started making the John Deere MC crawler in 1949. The MC uses the same track pads as the Lindeman did. Most of the Lindeman crawlers used the BO tractor motor and transmission unit. If you look at the front of the crawler, you can see the two cast bosses hanging down under the radiator where the front axle would have been mounted to it on the tractors.

This crawler is 76 years old, one year older than I am and Like me .. it is retired now and I just take it to tractor shows. If I broke something down in the final drive I would be up a creek. It isn't how much replacement parts would cost that is the problem, it is that replacement parts are just not available anymore.

Farmer Bill,,,,I have a few old restored tractors also. When you put that much time & work into them you dont even want to get them dirty. You can tell by the way he keeps it covered, I would too.

@@catman19 I have 7 all natural not restored JD. Some have had mechanical overhauls but most have not. One is 80 years young and I've only rebuilt the carb. I work all of them. I love the sound of a two cylinder pulling hard and working

No. I added that when I put the loader on. The crawler was originally hand start.

Yes .. that was the first time it had been started in about a week.