Struck is still in business and you can still get one of these little machines, from the simple push setup you see here to a scaled-down loader/backhoe setup that weighs as much as a typical car.

This is a 1968 Struck MD40 mini-bulldozer. Thank Eliteman76 in the Forums for bringing this thing to my attention. It’s useful, yeah, but at the end of the day, when you see it drive past the fields where the real big boys are out working, you can’t help but picture Johnny, The Little Tractor That Could. A lawn mower, front-end loader, and PTO-driven tiller in one package, that little green beast gets some work done around the homestead! But it has to be said: there is something mildly cartoonish about a 1/2 scale tractor. In addition to the trusty shovel and rake, I’ve got my father-in-law’s John Deere mini-tractor to use. I have plants to tend to, a yard to get in order, and a garden to start…hey, those watermelons aren’t going to grow themselves! Lucky me, I have a few tools at my disposal to make most of the work easy. And BangShift Mid-West is no exception to the rule. Now that the weather has started to make the transition through the nearly non-existant Spring and straight towards Summer-levels of warm in the Midwest, it’s time for home, lawn and garden projects.

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