the Treadable, Lando's caterpillar track vehicle in Star Wars "Rise of Skywalker"

https://www.starwars.com/databank/treadable

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Treadable

Caterpillar traction engine (Holt Model 60) hauling lead ore from the Tyler lease to the Bunker Hill Mill - Wardner, Idaho ca. 1914.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164118858186967&set=g.397526214154529

earliest Linn halftrack I've seen... it only has one cat track drive unit

the huge dynamo on the drivers side, powered the huge headlights

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/445

George Jelinski, Eagle Scout of Poland, on his round the world tour (good idea for "scouting" as learning self preservation is inescapable while driving around the world) stopping at San Fran city hall in 1928

Jelinski left Warsaw on May 30, 1926, in a white Ford that was named “A Scout Is Clean”, paying all expenses of the trip by lecturing and writing articles for Polish newspapers. (That's a long name for a car, but the clean white thing is quite clever)

Jelinski's tour took him through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, and Italy where he met with with Benito Mussolini, and Sicily, where he embarked for the North African shore. 

He drove through Tunisa and Algeria to Casablanca in Morocco, and had traveled about 19,000 miles, the mileage being attested to and verified, by various foreign automobile clubs.

He left Casablanca for America on an export steamer, arriving in Manhattan in August.  In Washington he was greeted by President Coolidge in Sept. When he arrived in Detroit, Jelinski was received by the Polish consul for Detroit, who presented him to the Mayor. (Detroit had a large Polish population)

He addressed several Polish-America organizations during his several days' visit here. The Polish Falcons of District 13 raised the funds for a new Buick to replace the light weight Ford model T he had worn out

The happy presentation was made by the owner of Stanley Krajenke Buick, who also presented Jelinski with a membership in the Detroit Automobile Club, the seventeenth organization of its sort which has welcomed him since he left Warsaw. 

JFK was photographed in front of Krajenke Buick 30 some years later

Jelinski was also welcomed by James E. West, chief Scout executive of the United States, on behalf of the 870,000 Scouts in the United States. From Detroit his route was through Toledo, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities.

He continued his journey to San Francisco, and left on the ship Taiyo Maru, and on July 13 arrived in Hawaii, then rode to Japan, where he traveled from Yokohama to Kobe, arriving there in mid-August 

He planned to return to Poland through China, but there was a civil war going on there, and he gave up the idea of ​​traveling to India at the last moment due to insufficient financial resources. Jeliński left Japan around September after visiting Nagasaki, then set out for Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

The expedition was described in the book "Under the Polish Flag by Car Around the World" published in 1929 by Władysław Umiński.  The book is free online, but in Polish. https://www.ee.pw.edu.pl/~kwestorm/jelinski/uminski_jelinski.pdf

His grandson made a replica of the Buick

a replica of the Ford is in the Museum and Centre of the Scout Movement in Krakow

After his time in the scouts and his round the world tour, he was a sailor and returned to the USA, going to Hollywood to learn to be a cinematographer. He studied modern film techniques and camera operation in Hollywood, becoming a professional cameraman.

Returning to Poland in the mid-1930s, he founded the Laborpat company, which dealt in film processing and production.

During World War II, the Germans confiscated equipment from Laborpat, destroying the company. Jeliński was participant of the Polish-Bolshevik War, and member of the resistance movement during World War II. 

After WW2, he established a rickshaw and handcart factory. 

He died in 1986

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/433

https://opensfhistory.org/NeighborhoodPhotos/Civic_Center/child

https://www.nytimes.com/1927/09/23/archives/on-world-tour-in-auto-polish-boy-scout-master-is-received-by.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/63828311648/posts/10162072540351649/

https://time.com/archive/6656249/national-affairs-around-the-world/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2965587276847192&set=pcb.2965594886846431

https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/custom/mirador?manifest=https://collections.lib.uwm.edu//iiif/info/mke-polonia/32397/manifest.json

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Jeli%C5%84ski

https://twojapolonia.tvp.pl/73803582/wielka-przygoda-polskiego-podroznika-95-lat-temu-jerzy-jelinski-ukonczyl-samochodowy-objazd-swiata

It's uncommon to find photos of Boy Scouts as they are too young to drive, typically. I remember the ones using a wagon to hike from Minnesota to San Francisco for the 1914 Pan Pacific Expo though https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/1914-kids-were-made-of-tough-pioneer.html

The scouts from Brazil that drove a Jeep to Canada https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/02/coffee-and-dunts-video-in-1955-three.html

The scouts on the Lincoln Highway with a covered wagon in 1928 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/03/i-think-i-posted-this-before-but-cant.html

in a 1927 article, U. S. Boy Scouts trekking through foreign lands were mentioned:

Sixteen Eagle Scouts from Wayne, Pa., were welcomed by the acting Lord Mayor of London.

Eight Sea Scouts from Chicago constitute part of the crew of the John Borden-Field Museum expedition, now collecting fauna in Arctic regions.

Two Scouts from Excelsior, Minn., are officially carrying greetings to Denmark.

In 1926, the following outstanding men were made honorary scouts:

Roy Chapman Andrews

Robert Abram Bartlett 

Frederick R. Burnham (horse mounted messenger for Western Union, actual US Cavalry scout, taught by native American Army scouts, fought in the Boer wars, and then taught Baden Powell trail signs and woodcraft, then went gold prospecting in the Yukon, and wrote his excellent biography, that I've read and have a copy of and recommend, Scouting On Two Continents https://www.facebook.com/groups/1491191564434558/posts/1514731728747208)

Richard E. Byrd 

George K. Cherrie 

James L. Clark 

Merian C. Cooper 

Lincoln Ellsworth, polar explorer in above airplane, which was once buried by an 8 day blizzard, and he dug it out, with a teacup. The only implement he had at hand

Louis Agassiz Fuertes 

George Bird Grinnell 

Charles A. Lindbergh 

Donald Baxter MacMillan, arctic explorer next to his tracked vehicle, 1927

Clifford H. Pope 

George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart's husband

Kermit Roosevelt 

Carl Rungius

Stewart Edward White 

Orville Wright

Of the 294 men and women selected to be astronauts since 1959 to 2005, more than 180 have been Scouts and of the 27 men to travel to the moon on the Apollo 9 through Apollo 17 missions, 24 were Scouts, including 11 of the 12 men who physically walked on the moon's surface, and all three members of the crew of Apollo 13 mission, that had it's oxygen tank explode meaning the landing mission had to be aborted.

the weather outside is frightful, etc etc let it snow - this bus can take it

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/411/

these look like they are extremely effective at maintaining traction in muddy turf

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1354651266697397&set=a.637760145053183

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1340938948068629&set=a.637760145053183

it can take a decade or more to bridge the gap between seeing something, and learning what it is... there are just SO MANY things to learn in this world, even in the small segment of the world that is tractor focused, but I finally got another, the Fordson with a Rotapet 4 chain drive adapter with caterpillar like tracks

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1123566083143435&set=pcb.1123566996476677

about 10 years ago (serious, the really good days of blogging, when the content was SO FOCUSED on machinery, and barely any news) I came across a similar Fordson with a track conversion that looks a lot like the above, but it had 3 spades per flat  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/04/this-british-built-square-tracked.html

and the year before that, Martin (super cool incredible artist) posted https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/08/martin-squires-auto-blogger-illustrator.html

So, I'm not saying these are all Rotapet, but the first one is on the blue Fordson, and you can compare for yourself the other two.

I simply amazed that in just 4 days, I've came across this decade gapper of a tractor track drive, and the OTHER tractor with the incredible flip over traction front rims, the Pavesi https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/05/andre-knew-about-these-military-wheels.html

it's rare that I post a computer generated "what could be" image some computer made, but no one has built... most are too damn ridiculous. This probably is too.

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/01/no-way.html

Like most CGI car images, there are lots of bullshit problems, like, wtf is between the tracks, what's the black back on the nose, why is a 68 fender on a 70 fron bumper, with 59 doors, and a Ford type hood scoop

this Miata with dual snowmobile tracks must be a crazy amount of fun in the snow

 

If you put tracks and skis on a small car, I bet you have a ton of fun on snowmobile trails

 

cool factory photo, would make a good garage poster

https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/%28MINING-EQUIPMENT--BUCYRUS-ERIE-COMPANY%29-Binder-containing-a?saleno=2458&lotNo=343&refNo=734407

a WW2 White half track was left on Boulder Mountain in Utah roughly in the 1960s, and became a part of the Dixie National Forest near Bryce Canyon... until last week, when it was actually stolen. The park service can't figure out how it was stolen

Forest rangers don't know exactly how it ended up in the Boulder Mountain Row Lakes area or how it was used likely after the war, but it may have been placed there five or six decades ago.

The Insider, a local newspaper in the region, reported in 2017 the vehicle was purchased and brought to the region to help with logging efforts in Boulder Mountain during the 1950s. One of the men explained to the outlet the vehicle was left there in 1954 after it suffered engine failure as the team tried to move it off the mountain through heavy snow. It had been there ever since.

it had been there for long enough that it had become Forest Service property and an archaeological piece of the land. Therefore it was protected by the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979.

 https://www.ksl.com/article/51052680/we-were-all-kind-of-stunned-historic-military-vehicle-stolen-from-national-forest-

at 830 hp, the 2025 John Deere 9RX four-track tractor is the company’s most powerful yet.

https://www.agriculture.com/the-2025-9rx-series-is-john-deere-s-biggest-tractor-yet-8600115

this looks like it's a forest crawling machine! Olofsfors tracks over tires on a John Deere 1270G 8x8 tire forest processor

https://forestmachinemagazine.com/new-alliance-tyres

on the tv show Northern Exposure, late in the 5th season, they had the character Chris (John Corbett) makes a half track doodlebug