Hello, This is my first post on this forum, I have looked at it on from time to time and find it most interesting, but the 1466 has made me bite and join, I work for a contractor in Minnesota for nearly 29 years in field service. I started there working on 1066C, 1066D, and two 1266D's. the operating weight of a 1266D (long) is around 264,000 lbs., as time went on the C and D model 10's were replaced with 4 20,000 series 1066 and one 20,000 series 1166. also the 1266's were replaced with 1466's. of all of the machines I have worked on the 1266 was the most interesting, A gentle Giant, an awesome sewer digger and a very well balanced machine on a barge. The 1466 was a hydraulic nightmare in my opinion, Koehrings were either a love it or hate it machine for operators and as the good Koehring guys retired it became increasingly more difficult to keep them running as the younger guys are more into creature comfort than maintenance, LOL, I think I still have a spec book around if anyone wants to know specific weights. The Koehring community is getting smaller every year, those who run them around the country usually know one another, it's fun to see the names like Dorfman and Hatchett, people who still see value in the orange giant, LOL. Our fleet has either been scrapped or sold off and replaced with Hitachi machines, Thank you all for this thread, and happy Thanksgiving.
Lee (MN)