«Previous    Next»
Cat Rides Big Attraction At Farmer's Market
Wagon rides with wheeled tractors are fun, but do you know what it feels like to ride on a Caterpillar?
  Roy Ginochio had a feeling folks might be interested, so last year he and a few friends built a 10-passenger carrier on the back of a 1935 Caterpillar. On a record-breaking day in August, 148 folks lined up to ride the "Creepy Crawler" around Forest Home Farms in San Ramon, Calif., host to a farmer's market. Besides fruits and vegetables, the 17-acre farm offers educational tours that include 30 old tractors restored by volunteers like Ginochio.
  With help from Ron Simmons, Joe Krueger, Jim Donahoe, Pat Sorensen and Vern Kalepp, Ginochio removed the Cat's seat and bolted on a 7-ft. long box with two side benches and a driver's seat.
  The back rails and much of the steel to make the welded frame came from 5 old hospital beds. The floor is 3/4-in. plywood, and foam seats are covered with vinyl. Ginochio purchased seatbelts at an aircraft surplus store. They were brand new WWII seatbelts still in the box.
  "It will seat 10 children or eight adults," Ginochio says. "It seems that adults like riding on it more than the kids."
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Roy Ginochio, 4071 Cowell Rd., Concord, Calif. 94518 (ph 925 685-3528; tractorman2@att.net).


  Click here to download page story appeared in.



  Click here to read entire issue




To read the rest of this story, download this issue below or click here to register with your account number.
Order the Issue Containing This Story
2011 - Volume #35, Issue #1