Classic machines: The International-Harvester TD-24 revisited
The end of World War Two saw a massive increase in the demand for heavy equipment. Top of contractors’ wish lists were large, high horsepower,...
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Forgotten companies: Carco
Many of the readership will identify the name Carco as being associated with logging winches and forestry equipment. However, Carco’s roots go much further back...
Evolution of the Single Axle Scraper
Grand-daddy of all the scrapers (apart from the horse-drawn, wheel-less Fresno type), the single axle scraper has a niche in the history of earthmoving and...
Forgotten companies: Bucyrus-Erie
The Bucyrus-Erie Company was world famous for it’s range of face shovels, draglines, cranes and other mining and quarry equipment. However, it also made a...
Forgotten companies: Isaacson
Back in time when the track type tractor was still considered a new tool for earthmoving, there were dozens of companies offering attachments to outfit...
Forgotten companies: Eimco
Established in the 1880s, Eimco designed and built underground mining equipment. In a surprising move, it decided to go above ground and enter the track...
Classic Machines: The International-Harvester TD20 & TD20B tractors
By the end of the 1950s, International’s “jack of all trades” TD-18 was getting beyond further economical development. The TD-20 was the result. By Richard...
Classic Machines: Schield’s Bantam excavator
Tracing its roots back to brothers Vern and Wilbur Schield’s original prototype manufactured in 1946, the Bantam, or more properly the model C-35 cable excavator,...
Classic Machines: The International TD-24 tractor
As soon as material constraints were removed prior to the end of WW2 the major earthmoving machinery companies set about designing new equipment to cater...
Classic Machines: Wooldridge’s scraper range
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...