Caterpillar’s Towed Scrapers
For over 30 years, Caterpillar’s towed scrapers were a mainstay of most contractors’ earthmoving fleets. As a one man tool, they could cut spread and...
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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...
Caterpillar’s first D9 tractor
When released in 1955, the Caterpillar D9D was one of the world’s largest and heaviest track type tractors, only exceeded in size by the Euclid...
The Allis-Chalmers HD-21 tractor
Developed directly from its model HD-20 (introduced 1951), the HD-21 featured among other things, one of the diesel engines from the recently acquired Buda Engine...
International Harvester’s 400 series scrapers
An entirely new design from International Harvester, the 400 series was based around a modular concept of construction and consisted of four machines – a...
Forgotten companies: LaPlant-Choate
LaPlant-Choate is not a well-known name in New Zealand. In fact if you mentioned it to a contractor today he would probably give you a very...
The International Harvester 175 payloader
Introduced in 1963, the Model 175 was one of a quartet of totally integrated track type loaders to be offered by International Harvester (the others...