a 1959 Bombardier is up for sale, seating for 12 in a rare vintage snowmachine with a V8... impressive! be the only person in your country to own one!

thanks to Iain who just ran across this and is nice enough to share the discovery with all of you, thinking maybe one of you would love to be it's new owner! http://www.nettimoto.com/ski-doo/elite/1617208 is the source of the images and 

A variety of interesting images from Truque tructruk Tumblr.com

All just a smaple of the variety found on http://truquetructruk.tumblr.com/

the winter isn't over, get these and never get stuck in a blizzard again, Track n Go... or tell Santa he better deliver next year

and the real time install:

get a great paint job on your construction equipment!

top found on http://gentlemint.com/tack/188742/
bottom found on  http://www.obviouswinner.com

from a Tumblr focused on off road vehicles, some of the ones that got my attention

all found on http://auslandern.tumblr.com

partly buried and left for nature to finish the job if a flash flood ever comes along

found among photos on http://www.dynamitedave.com/index.html

New York has a really big deep dig for a new subway, it looks a lot like the Die Hard 3 tunnels!

these and more photos from http://jalopnik.com/these-photos-of-nycs-subway-project-are-astonishing-513446087 via http://gentlemint.com/all/

very unusual and early French cars

all from http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com

Never fear little John Deere, Caterpillar will save the day ( Cat should really capitalize on videos like this... its free advertising)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmNrKK87GA

Uploaded on Jun 28, 2010

We were trying to finish grade the slopes along a new highway when the 650H slid down the slope into the canal and the 750J tried to pull him out, an also fell in. Good thing we had the 345CL there to rip them both out.

Cat moves it, and ought to use this video as advertisement! The Ghirardi Oak was moved by Hess Landscaping Construction by using a D7 dozer, a D8, and a trio of 345 excavators

This video looks great in full screen, and the lack and white images are only there for a historic perspective for the first minute

http://hesstrees.com/comptonoak/ for a gallery of images

http://hesstrees.com/comptonoak/blog/ for the what, how, and why of this Compton Oak... which was an acorn brought by the first immigrants to this area of Texas from Louisiana

Hess landscape Construction is a company from near San Jaun Capistrano, California

Steampunk East Tumblr has posted some great stuff...

 above is a photoshop of a locomotive over the top of the tank... it's pretty good!

the Isabel

and yup, this is the first time I've posted a vacuum. 

http://steampunkeast.tumblr.com for a lot more