Above Right: Casey Havemann proudly posing with his fully restored 1958 Case Terratrac crawler dozer. Above left: The 1958 Case Terratrac crawler dozer prior to restoration.
ATASCADERO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RESTORES 1958 CASE TERRATRAC CRAWLER DOZER
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asey Havemann loves to get his hands dirty. He learned to ride a quad at the age of 2, and has grown up around machinery his entire life. Five years ago, his older brother got involved in the JB Dewar Tractor Restoration Education Program and entered a restored Oliver Cletrac tractor/dozer into the annual competition at the California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles. Casey was so impressed that he wanted to restore a tractor on his own, and that year he restored a 1959 David Bradley tractor. He was only 12 years old. “I tore down the whole thing and painted it and then put all new parts on it. I had lots of fun 26
rebuilding that tractor,” Casey says. “One year later, I started on my 1951 Farmall Super C, which taught me so much more about motors and transmissions. I was really excited and happy I was finally a part of the Tractor Restoration Education Program.” Most recently, Casey won first place in the 2020 competition with a restored 1958 J.I. CASE Terratrac crawler dozer as part of the annual JB Dewar Tractor Restoration Education Program in San Luis Obispo, California. “In Paso Robles, about a mile from the fair, there’s a yard that JB Dewar can store tractors that people have donated, and I went there for a cleanup day just to help
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out,” says Casey. “I saw it there and it just caught my eye because it was complete. It was in good enough shape to tell where everything was originally. And I thought it would just be cool because it was a good size and it was all there.” A RARE BEAST The Terratrac crawler dozer is a bit of an oddball machine. Manufactured between 1957 and 1958, only 496 of these small crawler dozer/tractors ever came off the line. They’re rare—even more rare to find one mostly intact. The quaint machine weighs approximately 4,605 pounds, and is powered by a 2.4 Liter C A LCO N T R AC TO R .CO M
