Caterpillar 30 Is A Family Mainstay

By: Harlen Persinger

Dave Barlogio’s touchstone of tradition is a Cat 30 that’s not very pretty to look at. For Barlogio, though, the crawler embodies the memory of his grandfather, Giacomo (James), and his wife, Angelica.

The Cat 30, the Paso Robles, California, farmer points out, has anchored this operation since the day it came off a dealership’s lot 88 years ago. “My father, Miles, had a 1918 Fordson before purchasing the Cat from the nearby Luke & Livingston dealership for $1,800,” Barlogio says. “It soon became the major workhorse for handling tillage chores such as disking, running the Wheatland disk plow with eight blades, and operating the Case grain threshing machine.”

The Caterpillar was the product of advanced engineering, combined with skilled manufacturing and the finest materials metallurgical science could select. Thousands of satisfying economical working hours were built into every machine.