Garwood Scrapers
As an earthmoving equipment supplier, Garwood disappeared in the mid-1960s. However, readers may associate the name Garwood with a range of premium heavy haulage winches...
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The legendary LeTourneau Super C Tournapull
Apart from the track type tractor, perhaps no other earthmoving machine advanced the art of dirt moving, lowered cost-per-yard, and changed the way contractors thought...
Euclid’s 16TDT twin powered scraper
One of Euclid’s earliest twin powered scrapers, the Euclid 16TDT was a progressive development of that Company’s experiments with tandem powered earthmovers and it created...
International-Harvester’s 2T-55 & 2T-75 PayScrapers
The late 1940s and early 1950s saw unprecedented growth in earthmoving projects worldwide with demand for new machinery at an all-time high. Some manufacturers were...
The Allis-Chalmers TS460 motor scraper
Allis-Chalmers was always an innovator when it came to construction equipment although not all of its products were instant successes, its TS460 motor scraper being...
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 history of the towed scraper
Before the motor scraper there was the towed scraper – one of the first types of bulk earthmoving equipment to be invented. RICHARD CAMPBELL looks...
LeTourneau’s Model C Tournapull scraper
Perhaps no other motor scraper in the history of the genre helped to change the way that contractors thought about moving earth than the LeTourneau...
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,...