Category : Classic Machines
RG Le Tourneau’s L-series Pacemaker
Le Tourneau was a visionary machine designer. His innovative electric wheel, developed for the L-series Pacemaker motorscraper, is now used in most mining trucks. Only...
The Caterpillar 619 scraper
The 619 motorscraper introduced a number of firsts for Caterpillar scrapers, including planetary final drives, two-cylinder hydraulic steering and semi-modular construction for easier maintenance. By Richard...
The Euclid S-7 scraper
The legendary Euclid by Richard Campbell THE Euclid S-7 was a highly successful machine, occupying a fairly unique space in the history of the evolution...
The Allis-Chalmers TS-300 scraper
The TS-300 was not an original Allis-Chalmers designed machine. Following WWII, the LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a long time builder of dozer...
International-Harvester’s E200 scraper
One of the first companies to realize the benefits an elevating scraper could offer the smaller earthmoving contractor was International Harvester, which introduced the model...
The Caterpillar 666 motor scraper
Following requests from a number of our readers, this month’s featured machine is the Caterpillar 666, however, no 666s were ever imported into New Zealand....
The Wabco D/111A elevating scraper
Having covered the conventional model D scraper in the April 2008 edition of Contractor mention was made of the most significant offshoot of this machine,...