Clark-Michigan is a name more commonly known to New Zealand contractors for their range of wheel loaders rather than motor scrapers.
However the Michigan range of conventional and elevating scrapers have been around since the early 1960s in various sizes although very few were imported into New Zealand.
Our subject, the Michigan...
John Deere was one of the pioneers of elevating scrapers in the USA. But what to do when your existing technology is out of date? The model 762 was the perfect answer. By Richard Campbell.
Deere introduced its first elevating scraper, the seven cubic yard model 840 in 1957. It was the result of mating an existing, highly modified John...
One of the first companies to realize the benefits an elevating scraper could offer the smaller earthmoving contractor was International Harvester, which introduced the model E200 in 1966. By Richard Campbell
Fast, maneuverable and legally roadable just about anywhere, the nine cubic yard E200 elevating scraper was sold in...
In an attempt to break into the larger elevating scraper market, Euclid, in cooperation with Hancock, began investigating a single-engined elevating scraper in 1966.
Tentatively rated at 32 cubic yards heaped capacity, the machine which used the tractor unit of an S-24 motor scraper was sent off to the company’s proving grounds at...
