Exploration Tractor
Exploration Tractor
This promotional film for Clark construction equipment deals with Michigan Exploration Tractor, an odd looking truck/tractor that carries several men and tons of equipment into remote, unzoned areas. It opens with a LS of the tractor speeding over a distant ridge, heads towards the camera and passes by it. Then there are several wide angle LS's of the tractor being tested by nature... several LS's grade tests, the first at 30%, the second at 45%... the hill of round sand test... the wooded marsh test (includes a subjective LS through the operator cab window)... the steep forest creek test where it has to winch its way out of a non-traction situation (includes CU's of the winch being deployed and operated)... the forest test where it mows down lots of sapling trees and goes through a steep incline and through a creek... the snow covered hill test. This is a very straight forward film about an interesting machine.