CarryallsLeTourneauThe LeTourneau LS and LP CarryallsContrafed PUblishingMay 5, 2022August 29, 2022 by Contrafed PUblishingMay 5, 2022August 29, 2022 We’re going right back in time to celebrate two icons of earthmoving, the LeTourneau model LS and LP Carryalls. In the 1940s and 1950s you...
International-HarvesterModel CollectorSpec CastThe IH TD-24 tractorContrafed PUblishingMarch 29, 2016October 27, 2022 by Contrafed PUblishingMarch 29, 2016October 27, 2022 ...
Classic MachinesScrapersThe history of the towed scraperContrafed PUblishingMarch 29, 2016August 16, 2022 by Contrafed PUblishingMarch 29, 2016August 16, 2022 Before the motor scraper there was the towed scraper – one of the first types of bulk earthmoving equipment to be invented. RICHARD CAMPBELL looks...
Classic MachinesScrapersLeTourneau’s Model C Tournapull scraperContrafed PUblishingMarch 29, 2016June 12, 2023 by Contrafed PUblishingMarch 29, 2016June 12, 2023 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...
Classic MachinesTractorsThe Oliver OC-18 tractorContrafed PUblishingDecember 8, 2015May 17, 2023 by Contrafed PUblishingDecember 8, 2015May 17, 2023 In its heyday, the Oliver Corporation of Cleveland Ohio, USA was a well-respected company manufacturing agricultural tractors and implements. By Richard Campbell. Looking to expand...