Industry’s most successful small elevating scraper
Caterpillar’s 613 is the most successful small elevating scraper ever built, exceeding by a handsome margin any other 11-yard scraper manufacturer in terms of total...
Tag : Clark-Michigan
The Michigan 210 series
Michigan motor scrapers are probably unfamiliar to a lot of earthmovers these days, but they occupy a place in the development of this type of...
The Clark-Michigan 180 Wheel Dozer
In some countries, particularly New Zealand, wheel dozers are an under-appreciated item of machinery. The wheeled bulldozer is actually an extremely versatile piece of equipment...
The Michigan 110-9 & Hancock 192 elevating scrapers
The subject(s) of this month’s article occupy a unique niche in the history of elevating scrapers as they are both one and the same machine!...
The Clark-Michigan 110-15 scraper
Clark-Michigan is a name more commonly known to New Zealand contractors for its range of wheel loaders rather than motor scrapers. However the Michigan range...
Birth of the Articulated Dump Truck
Developed to a greater potential during the late 1960s with the advent of all-wheel drive, the articulated dump track has actually been around for a...
The Caterpillar 639D elevating scraper
As in comedy, they say that timing is everything. Caterpillar introduced the model 639D just when the bottom was beginning to fall out of the...
The Terex S-11E scraper
Noisy but effective, the Terex S-11E made its mark on New Zealand. By Richard Campbell In 1964 Terex (then known as Euclid) entered the elevating...
The Terex 72-81 wheel loader
Following on from the success of its smaller 72 series wheel loaders, Terex decided to take on the big boys with the 72-81. By Richard...