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The plant is very much still in operation. Here's the website and the brochure for this model blade. Rome Plow Land Clearing Equipment

Guess what I found online? Guy had a 1966 Cat D7E up in New York, still serving. The KG7ED blade is gone, along with the armored grille, the engine covers, and the armor on the intake and hydraulic cylinders, but it has the military ROPS cage, the exhaust tip armor and the mounts on the grille...

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The "Rome Plow" was made famous during land clearing operations in the Vietnam conflict, where specially equipped bulldozers were needed to level huge swaths of jungle and scrub to deny the enemy cover and concealment. Land clearing units were present in Vietnam from May 1967 until 1971. The...