ContractorThe Michigan 210 seriesContrafed PUblishingNovember 6, 2022December 3, 2022 by Contrafed PUblishingNovember 6, 2022December 3, 2022 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...
ContractorThe Michigan 110-9 & Hancock 192 elevating scrapersContrafed PUblishingNovember 27, 2019September 20, 2024 by Contrafed PUblishingNovember 27, 2019September 20, 2024 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!...
ContractorThe scrapers of Curtiss-WrightContrafed PUblishingApril 27, 2018September 23, 2024 by Contrafed PUblishingApril 27, 2018September 23, 2024 ...
LeTourneauLeTourneau’s Model C TournatractorContrafed PUblishingAugust 31, 2017October 15, 2024 by Contrafed PUblishingAugust 31, 2017October 15, 2024 Always the innovative thinker when it came to earthmoving equipment, Robert LeTourneau came up with the idea of the Tournatractor in 1946. By RICHARD CAMPBELL...
Classic MachinesScrapersWooldridge’s scraper rangeContrafed PUblishingMarch 24, 2016November 28, 2024 by Contrafed PUblishingMarch 24, 2016November 28, 2024 Wooldridge is not a name many of our readers will be familiar with and yet it was an important evolutionary branch of the motor scraper...
Forgotten companiesMississippi Road SupplyContrafed PUblishingFebruary 29, 2016September 24, 2024 by Contrafed PUblishingFebruary 29, 2016September 24, 2024 Back in the November 2005 issue of Contractor we had brief look at the M.R.S Company (Mississippi Road Supply) of Flora, Mississippi, USA. I didn’t...