Category : Scrapers

Allis-ChalmersScrapers

The Allis-Chalmers 260E scraper

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The Allis-Chalmers 260E elevating scraper was one of the quartet of elevating scrapers which appeared in the mid 1960s to challenge LeTourneau-Westinghouse’s dominance in the...
Classic MachinesScrapers

Wabco’s 101F elevating scraper

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Probably the most unusual looking elevating scraper ever put into production, the Wabco 101F made its first appearance in 1970.   By Richard Campbell An entirely...
EuclidScrapers

Euclid’s TS-14 scraper

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One of the most successful scrapers of all time, the Euclid (later Terex) TS-14 is still in production over 50 years after it was first...
Classic MachinesScrapers

The Allis-Chalmers 562 motor scraper

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There is an inherent fascination with large pieces of earthmoving equipment, no matter what function they perform and the rarer those pieces of equipment are,...
Classic MachinesScrapers

Wooldridge’s scraper range

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Wooldridge is not a name many of our readers will be familiar with and yet it was an important evolutionary branch of the motor scraper...
CaterpillarScrapers

The Caterpillar 631A scraper

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A direct descendent of the 1950’s DW21, the 631A was introduced in 1960 and was the second of Caterpillar‘s new ‘600’ series motor scrapers to...
Classic MachinesScrapers

The Wabco 333 elevating scraper

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To date, the largest elevating scraper ever to work in New Zealand, and certainly the most powerful, the Wabco 333FT could trace it’s family tree...
Classic MachinesScrapers

International Harvester’s 400 series scrapers

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An entirely new design from International Harvester, the 400 series was based around a modular concept of construction and consisted of four machines – a...
Classic MachinesScrapers

The Terex TS-18 motor scraper

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  Breaking away from traditional Terex design philosophy, the TS-18 twin powered motor scraper was an entirely new machine from the ground up. The only link...
CaterpillarScrapers

The Caterpillar 613 scraper

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Introduced in 1969, the Caterpillar 613 has been with us in various configurations for 43 years covering five different models and is the most successful...