A demolition company in Northern NJ, Ottilio and sons, had a couple of Shermans they used for taking down buildings in the 60's. There is a video of it.
There supposedly was one used for logging in the Schenectady-Glens Falls, NY area, possibly purchased from the Watervleit arsenal, that the turret had been removed and left in a barn somewhere long after the tank was scrapped.
In a small village in northern Minnesota, there was an older gentleman, who was the radio man at Battle of Bastogne. After the war he bought a tank without the turret to use for dragging the trees they cut down for his logging crew.
It worked well, except it consumed 60 to 70 gallons of gas a day. Then they heard about a diesel engine they could convert it with, that cost $3,500 , which was a lot of money, back then, but he finally went for it, with his partners and then it only used an average of 10 to 12 gallons a day.
In the late 1960's there was a place in Salem Ma that sold Sherman tanks
An old zinc mine still has a Sherman tank in it. They removed the top and put a drill on top of it. It’s been sitting there since about the 70s when they got newer equipment. The mine is now shut down so you can’t get into see it anymore
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