The Wabco 101 series elevating scraper
Image: A South Island-based 101F belonging to New Brighton Contractors of Christchurch, engaged in some subdivisional work. The post behind the operator is for a...
Category : Classic Machines
John Deere’s first elevating scrapers
Image: Above: A beautifully preserved example of a John Deere 840 elevating scraper on display in the USA. The original extension shaft-driven elevator drive has...
International-Harvester’s 412 Elevating Scraper
Image: Mid-’70s-era International 412 with the optional factory cab fitted. Note that this is a soft cab, ROPS still having to make an appearance when...
Garwood Scrapers
As an earthmoving equipment supplier, Garwood disappeared in the mid-1960s. However, readers may associate the name Garwood with a range of premium heavy haulage winches...
The LeTourneau Tournatractor
One of the most creative minds of his era, and a prolific inventor/designer, Robert LeTourneau first came up with the idea of the Tournatractor in...
The elevating scraper concept and the Cat J621
There has been some considerable debate over who exactly came up with the elevating scraper concept, Johnson or Hancock, as both companies were in Lubbock,...
The Euclid/Terex 82-40
At the request of customers, the Euclid 82-40 was developed to fill a gap between the company’s existing 82-30 and TC-12 dozers. By Richard Campbell....
The early Allis-Chalmers HD-16
One of the most popular of all Allis-Chalmers’ track-type tractors, the D8-sized model HD-16, first appeared in 1955 following the discontinuation of the former model...
The rise of the small scraper
Appearing at a time when the popularity of small elevating scrapers was on the rise, the Terex S-11E entered a highly competitive field of machines...
The legendary LeTourneau Super C Tournapull
Apart from the track type tractor, perhaps no other earthmoving machine advanced the art of dirt moving, lowered cost-per-yard, and changed the way contractors thought...