Continuing the Legend – The D342 powered Caterpillar D8s
Caption: New Zealand-based Caterpillar D8H-46A series of the Ministry of Works on a hydro project “somewhere in NZ”. This tractor is equipped with a cable-operated...
Category : Classic Machines
Birth of a legend, the early Caterpillar D8
A true classic tractor in every sense of the word, the Caterpillar D8 has been around in various forms since 1935. This month we will...
Schield C-35 Bantam excavator
Wanting a cheap and versatile cable-operated excavator capable of performing multiple tasks including backhoe, face shovel, dragline, crane or clamshell? Look no further than the...
Wooldridge’s first motor scraper
The name Wooldridge will not be familiar to many contractors here. However, it was the third manufacturer to offer a motor scraper, right up there...
Early development of the ripper-it started with a ‘rooter’
These days, most of us do not pay much attention to the ripper fitted to a dozer, loader or motor grader, but there is quite...
The Caterpillar 633 elevating scraper
The 1960s and 1970s were a very fertile time for machinery manufacturers with a worldwide boom in earthmoving projects, and the big manufacturers of the...
A new beginning – the Terex articulated dump truck
Terex (formerly Euclid), was one of the major suppliers of heavy earthmoving equipment in the USA and had been founded in 1909. It manufactured tough...
Equipment Controls – the cable era
caption: Another very popular LeTourneau PCU was the front mounted Model AN8, seen here fitted to a reasonably new Caterpillar D8-1H series. The tractor also has a...
The Euclid C-6/Terex 82-30 revisited
This month we will have a re-look at a very iconic bulldozer, the Euclid C-6/82-30, a machine intended to take on Caterpillar, International-Harvester and Allis-Chalmers...
The Wabco 353FT elevating scraper
There is nothing quite as good as when an equipment manufacturer ‘gets it right’. Wabco’s model 353FT elevating scraper is an excellent case in point....