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...
Michigan wheel dozers were well accepted by the earthmoving industry and found use in all manner of operations.
Michigan was not the first manufacturer to offer a wheel type bulldozer. That honour belongs to R G LeTourneau who pretty much came up with the concept in the first place.
Initially based on the chassis of one of...
An exceptionally versatile tool, the wheel loader has found a use in all phases of construction as well as quarry and aggregate production, material recycling, reclamation, rubbish transfer and heavy mining. BY RICHARD CAMPBELL
Early machines were based largely on agricultural two-wheel drive tractors and operated back-to-front with the...
This rather interesting piece of machinery can trace it’s origins through three decades and three countries: the USA, Australia and New Zealand. By Richard Campbell
Originally designed by Mixermobile Inc in the USA, the original machine was marketed as the Scoopmobile model LD3 and was powered by a General Motors 3-71, 3-cylinder...
Notable as Allis-Chambers’ most successful wheel loader, 1000 645s were purchased by the US Military in the mid-1960s and were their standard medium wheel loader for some considerable time. BY RICHARD CAMPBELL
WHILE ALLIS-CHALMERS was responsible for a lot of ‘firsts’ in the track type tractor industry, it tended to be somewhat...
Among the many people who invented iconic, useful and lasting pieces of earthmoving equipment was Frank G. Hough (pronounced “huff”), Richard Campbell explains.
Frank Hough added a trademark to the world’s vocabulary – PayLoader – which became synonymous with all wheel loaders, regardless of manufacturing origin.
If...
