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It's not too soon to order your new 2025 HCEA Calendar!
Each month features a black-and-white photograph of construction, dredging or surface mining machinery from the early and mid 20th Century. Sales of the calendar is a major funding source for the Historical Construction Equipment Association. Proceeds support their mission to preserve for public education the history of the construction, dredging and surface mining equipment industries.
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Clewiston Tractor, now Kelly Caterpillar, was contracted by the U.S. Sugar Corporation in Clewiston, FL to build rubber tire tractors to pull sugar cane wagons from the field to factory in the mid 1950s. The Caterpillar D6 9U tractor served as the base unit with a custom wheel conversion added.
