Djmayer
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I am considering buying a vintage Hopto excavator by made by Warner Swasey. It looks to be in pretty good shape and it is functional. For your information I have determined that “hopto” is an acronym for hydraulically operated power takeoff. I guess in the early days of excavators having hydraulically driven systems rather than cables or some other mechanical means was a novel idea. I’m wondering basically if parts are available for this in particular hydraulic parts like motors and controls. The unit I’m looking at is I think from the mid 60s. I’m gonna go look at it some more today. I think it might be a 211 I’m still looking for serial numbers references and stuff. I may be able to buy manuals on that auction site. The engine is a Detroit diesel so I’m not so worried about parts for that but vehicle specific parts might be a little hard to come bye.
Any comments or directions on recommendations of where to get parts or whether this is a machine to run away from or it might be really good let me know looking for interest info. In particular if there is a website dedicated to these old machines or something like that that would be great
thank much.
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Dave Mayer
Any comments or directions on recommendations of where to get parts or whether this is a machine to run away from or it might be really good let me know looking for interest info. In particular if there is a website dedicated to these old machines or something like that that would be great
thank much.
New member
Dave Mayer