Euclid

[skyking1]

It looks like quite the beast! Very short wheelbase for the amount of load.

 

[mowingman]

Did they ever build any of those? Looks like a Payhauler in green.
Jeff

 

[kshansen]

I have not also very very many sold?

The only place I have seen one is in the sale brochure I scanned it from. The company I worked for had three or four IH trucks with dual all around but I'm not recalling the steering set-up on those. Only time I was near them was to help strip things off like dump bodies to get them ready to be moved out of state. I'm thinking they were smaller than the Euclids in my post, maybe 50 tonners?

Found a link to a site about those, Payhauler 350 or the 180:

Funny thing is after first posting this I noticed two things even though the link originally came up with a search for the 350. It does mention the 350 is basically and updated 180. And near the end of the video I see the trucks have the company logo on the doors for the company I worked for!

 

[Hank R]

 

[John C.]

I worked on 350 Payhaulers back in the early eighties. Detroit V16 or Cummins V12 power. All wheel drive in first gear as I recall. They liked to bust rear axles.

 

[kshansen]

Here's another scan of old 1960's Euclid info, this is spec's for the little baby R-13! Hope this scan works.

 

[kshansen]

Next up R-22:

 

[kshansen]

Now a R-35 74TD, these were the main trucks we had at the quarry for many years when I first started:

Just noticed something different, on the one's we had the air filter was mounted low and in front of the left front fender, you could service it from ground!

 

[kshansen]

Next the "newer" R-35, never had any this new!:

 

[Steve Frazier]

That R22 looks like the model I remember seeing most. There were dozens of road projects being built when I was a kid and they were used on them. They're the only haul trucks I can remember seeing until probably the late 80s. Very popular around here.

 

[kshansen]

One more this one is for the R-50 Haul truck.

 

[Nige]

Amazing that Terex brand in the UK also had an R50, manufactured in Motherwell, Scotland. Much more agricultural than the Euc though. A 16V-71 screaming Jimmy, leaf springs & rigid axles at both ends, and rode like the proverbial brick.
Operator's hated them with a f'kin passion......
We had 35 of them at the last coal mine where I worked in the UK. Each one was driven 130 miles from the factory to the mine just north of Newcastle by road not put in a lowboy. Photo shows the optional sound suppression attachment which ours had fitted and was a right PITAif you needed to do any radiator work. I have no idea just how much the factory thought they could quieten a Jimmy anyway. Our truck shop must have had 2 mechanics working permanently doing nothing other than replacing broken road springs. Front springs were a ba$tard, rears were a rgiht ba$tard.

Sold & serviced in the UK by the (in)famous John Blackwood Hodge & Co, more commonly known throughout the industry as "Deadwood Dodge".



When we got the first 12 Cat 777s to be shipped to the UK in 1977 they were driven 25 miles from Leverton’s (dealer) yard south of Newcastle to the mine right through the centre of City. Here are photos of a couple of them making the journey fitted with red & white trade (temporary dealer) licence plates to make them “road legal”. We must have had some really early ones. One was S/N 84A89.

 

[Hank R]

I am surprised and happy with all the Euclid information that has been posted on here , I am still waiting for friends to send me more pictures.

 

[skyking1]

It's a great community that way. When I saw that R35 go by at 75MPH I knew I would be getting off on the frontage road on the way back

 

[DMiller]

I can only relate to the R15s and 16s seen at quarries here.

 

[Hank R]

Picture from one of my books, not a mine haul truck but a Euclid.

 

[Hank R]

Well I finally found my Euclid Key ring after 5 or 6 hrs. of going through boxes.

 

[kshansen]

Picture from one of my books, not a mine haul truck but a Euclid.

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Here's a page out of the Spec sheets I have that show the 64TD
New price in 1956 was $43,420.00 had to haul a bunch of logs to pay for that tractor!

 

[Hank R]

Thanks interesting the price Just over $43,000.xx, soon a trip to the grocery store and a tank of gas will be half of that LOL

 

[John C.]

That price sounds to be less than a stripped down Chevy pickup these days.