The LaPlant-Choate TS-300 motor scraper
LaPlant-Choate’s TS-300 owes its origins to a design formulated prior to World War 2. The TS-300 was LaPlant-Choate’s first motor scraper and despite being taken...
Tag : Earthmoving equipment
Lessons in smart fleet management
This article first appeared in Contractor February 2017. Cutting costs was the original reason that Nelson-based Taylors Contracting looked for a GPS fleet management system....
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...
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 Allis-Chalmers 562 motor scraper
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,...
Forgotten companies: Heil
Heil, whose head office and main production plant was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, was at one stage on the ‘cutting edge’ of earthmoving technology when...