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The Tractor

United Equipment, 600 W. Glenwood Road, Turlock, California

The tractor is a six room, two-story office building with 2,400 square feet of space, housing United Equipment, a heavy equipment company.  It is 2.5 times the size of the Caterpillar D6 tractor, after which it is modeled. "The owner saw a scale model of a tractor on top of a 25-story building in Tokyo, and got the idea for his own tractor-shaped building," Brenda Schmidt, secretary/bookkeeper and daughter of Harold Logsdon, who owned the building, told the Los Angeles Times back in 1987. Built mostly of plywood, the Tractor was constructed in 1976.

References

        Rhonda Bright, Standout Structures With Unusual Shapes, The Los Angeles Times (May 28, 1987) at 6.

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