Frank Burke drove past the rusted old bulldozer for years on his travels between Atlanta and Walterboro, South Carolina.
Then one day he stopped to take a look.
“My God, this thing is huge,” he thought.
He assumed it was a Caterpillar dozer that was sitting near those railroad tracks in rural Allendale County, South Carolina. But after closer examination, he saw it was an Allis-Chalmers. He immediately called his friend Roy Ashley, who collected the company’s tractors at his home in White Plains, Georgia.
“Roy, it's the biggest dozer I've ever seen sitting over here in Allendale County,” Frank told him.
“Frank, do you think it's impossible it could be an HD-41?”
“Roy, I don't know what it is. But I can tell you it's bigger than a D9 Cat.”
