The Caterpillar 769 series
The Caterpillar 769 was Caterpillar’s first serious foray into the world of off-highway trucks and faced a lot of long-established competitors, but proved itself to...
Category : Classic Machines
A passionate gift for old machines
He’s the longest serving contributor to Contractor magazine (22-years) and could have been a doctor, or a full-time professional musician, but left medical school to...
Forgotten companies – Cletrac
In its heyday, Cletrac was quite an innovator and made a wide range of track type tractors which were very popular. Today, it is almost...
The Terex 82-50 – A Euclid TC-12 Replacement
Terex had very big shoes to fill when it replaced its iconic TC-12/82-80 track type tractor with the new model 82-50 in the company’s product...
Earthfill Compaction – A Brief History
Good compaction of fill is essential if you are to avoid subsidence. The Romans and Egyptians knew it and so did the so-called “primitive” tribes...
The Caterpillar 657 and 657B scrapers
Creating quite a stir when it was first announced, the Caterpillar 657 has been the backbone of large capacity scraper fleets since 1962 and remains...
Forgotten companies: Ateco
Once the number one go-to organization for tractor rippers and a myriad of other useful attachments, the American Tractor Equipment Corporation (ATECO) enjoyed major success...
The LeTourneau Model B Tournapull
LeTourneau was the pioneer in motor scraper development in the late 1930s, nobody else came close to replicating his success. With his Model A Tournapull...
The Allis-Chalmers TS-360 scraper
Following its buy out of LaPlant-Choate in 1952, Allis-Chalmers proceeded to improve and enhance its products. One of the first machines to receive attention was...
The Caterpillar 941 Traxcavator
There is an old adage that says “If it looks right, it probably is right”, and that appellation most certainly describes the Caterpillar 941 Traxcavator....