Additional models followed, including the "Holt Model 60-75 Caterpillar", which sold very well, eventually renamed as the "Holt Model 75 Caterpillar", their best-selling front tiller-wheeled tractor.
"They're not going to be able go out in front of Tiller's now.
He is Dion Neese, 45, who seems more comfortable in front of the tiller of an outboard motor than behind the wheel of a car.
The Holocaust Museum killing, the Pittsburgh police murders and the shooting of Dr. Tiller were front-page news, but I was unaware of the ugly events in Brockton and along the Arizonan border.
Unlike the Holt tractor which had a steerable tiller wheel in front of the tracks, the Hornsby crawler was steered by controlling power to each track.
(ie if the front drifts right, move the tiller a small distance right until you feel some resistance, then hold it there).
When Hammond's car backs up and begins to drive forward, Tiller runs toward the front of the car.
Throughout, Dr. Tiller's widow, Jeanne Tiller, sat in the front row, sometimes leaning against family members, other times looking down, her face in her hands.
At the front of the sanctuary, beside a framed photograph of Dr. Tiller, was a large wreath that framed a simple sign, "Trust Women".
They became a team that often drove the ladder company's tiller truck together -- Dave from Staten Island in the front, Bobby from Brooklyn in the back -- to hundreds of fires all over Lower Manhattan.
