One of the big issues with using scrapers seems to be finding operators that can or WILL run them. I used to love my old TS-24 or the Wabco 222F, But without air conditioning or a cushion hitch you cant get anybody to run them. Short of a nutcase like me.It's amazing to me how nobody wants to move dirt with scrapers nowadays. Waaay more efficient than scoops and trucks.
Good looking operation there.
I loved running scrapers I never got to run anything bigger than a 623 but I didn’t care if it had ac or an air seat or if the cushion hitched worked I was just happy to be on a tractor and learning something I still prefer an open cab if I have the choice nothing better than hearing that cat scream and have dirt and smoke blowing on you
I have always wanted to give those machines a try around here in California a majority of our scrapers are cat but I have seen some clarks and a few john deere I don't think I have ever seen a wabco or terex in person or working out this way I know back in the day the terex were around I had an old neighbor that was a union operator after the Korean war and he used to tell me about them green hornets I think he called themWow,,, an attitude like that and you would be a natural on an old TS-24 with a 12V71 up front and the straight pipe 6-71 in the rear.
that's for sure I did see on the job site last week I think an ole boy had an old crane I think it was a grove cab over with an old 2 stroke Detroit in it I heard from inside the building I was in I didn't get a chance to talk to him about it or get a pictureI would imagine the CARB ran all those old 2 strokers out of the state or off to the scrapyard.
Do you know which model Wabcos those were? I'm interestedI saw 4 or 5 wabco elevators working in Fresno CA on Thursday and 6 Ts 24 loadrunners in Fresno as well . The 24s haven't moved in 5 or so years but they run and ready to work . No of these machines have red stickers on them as well .
how they get away with it I do not know . Also some ts 24s in a pit off the 210 . Those 24s were running last x-mas . The central valley of CA has some neat old stuff bumping around .
Last week out in the sticks far far from anywhere I was on a job with an International 3500 hoe digging right next to me . I learned on a 3500 .
Thanks. Good to hear some oldies are still working down there.They are 222 rz