A while ago was a question about bulldozers in Wehrmacht service. I discovered today a Bührer Operator 1030, which is the civil counterpart of the M9 ACE. Did some research and found out that the operations principle of the Schürfraupe was developed by Menck & Hambrock in the 1930`s. They developed the Schürfraupe 39 and later Schürfraupe 43. Internet says that the Schürfraupe was requested by Fritz Todt for digging infantry and anti-tank trenches. But it`s not sure if Schürfraupen ever saw service with the Wehrmacht. Maybe "Magic" Frenchy can find some evidence pictures?
Here`s a video of the modern Operator 1030.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kepe843bxcc

All I have found are these period pics that should show a "Menck-Benteler Schürfraupe 43" built in 1943 (or maybe a SR 39 built in ...1939 ) :







The two guys above don't look like Wehrmacht soldiers...

H.P.

The one on the left does look a little bit like Hitler...

Exactly what I thought too

According to this web-page:
http://www.scrapedozer.com/schuerfraupen/geschichte/

Hugo Cordes developed this one:

Could it be the one in Frenchys photos?

/ Robin

Another candidate for the Wehrmacht Plausible Bulldozer title could be the Kaelble PR125 crawler tractor, built in 1939 to a 1938 specification issued by Fritz Todt. :



Some were fitted with a dozer blade :








He was a grandson of the company founder and he worked for Menck&Hambrock :

http://www.menckundhambrockarchiv.de/Ubersicht/Anbaugerate-Co/Gleislose_Erdbewegung/gleislose_erdbewegung.html

so the pictured dozer should probably be the very same one (minus the crane ?)....

H.P.