Truck Shop
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NMP--D9.
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Crawlers I photo'd recently.
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Truck Shop
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I operated one like that on weekends at the local garbage dump in my old home town.
Didn't pay all that well but was fun to operate, ran over a whole bunch of old toilets
with it one time.
Didn't pay all that well but was fun to operate, ran over a whole bunch of old toilets
with it one time.
John C.
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I like the 9G we had at the coal mine for the amount it could move in one push. I just thought that the hydraulics were always slow and the machine was clumsy to operate. It was cool to look behind the machine and see the cleared path that the dozer made.
Truck Shop
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A digger.
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Photo by Kloth--Holt built in Stockton, Cal. Accredited with building the first crawler tractor by some.
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Yes, it was
There are 3 cats on this farm that i hauled scrap from they want to sell them to me to resell. One is a R6 with a blade it is in the best shape. Then there is this one with grader . There is another but i couldnt find it yesterday i had to walk to see this one i will go back when i can drive in and find the last one if it ever drys up.
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I think there worth some were around scrap price plus what it would take to move them. I think i can move the other 2 . The 6 will roll and the other is a smaller i have been told. On the other hand i may be smarter to get them to the road and let someone else move them.
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NMP-Frozen in time, the last load.
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NMP's
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Is that 988 Carry Loader for real? Somehow in all the years working on 988's never came across mention of them. The earliest one I worked on that I recall the s/n for was 87A1964. Would be interesting to see how the operator would fill the rear bucket. Most operator I knew had enough problem with the front bucket!
Probably not as hard as you think! I imagine with the rear loader and the rear axle moved back, it's gonna have better traction for loading the front and once that's filled it's got traction up the wazoo to fill the back. Then I thought maybe less tire wear that way but then I remembered all the turning around you'd have to do to dig and dump and that probably offsets that.
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Willie B
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Now you've caught my interest. I have a crawler, too old to be working, but low hours.
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Willie B
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Of greater interest to me is how did they shape the land around a house in an earlier day. The time I'm interested in is before my memory beginning in 1960. I presume most earth moving from the men with shovels era must have begun with dozers. There were cable shovels, some steam, later gasoline or diesel powered, I presume they were brought in for extended projects. I don't expect many shovels were used for single family homes.
Here, the ones in twentieth century I can find mention of were human muscle powered, then horse drawn scoop, (almost the same as human muscle)
First memory In my life beginning in 1956 is a primitive backhoe on a 1940 Farmall M tractor owned by the local dealer. It had a toothless 16?" wide bucket I have seen stumped trying to dig a hole.
By 1964? a local bought a dedicated backhoe/loader, a Case Construction King, I think a 530. He made his living until his death digging cellar holes & building septic systems. I found the tractor on its side 1985? it had travelled a miraculous 3/4 mile without a driver through farm fields downhill to flop on its side at a brook. Its owner was found dead. The coroner believes he was dead as he fell out of the driver's seat to be run over by the right rear tire.
First excavator I saw was after the 1979 flood here. A local aggressive contractor stepped out & bought two used John Deere excavators to repair flood damage at federal expense.
Here, the ones in twentieth century I can find mention of were human muscle powered, then horse drawn scoop, (almost the same as human muscle)
First memory In my life beginning in 1956 is a primitive backhoe on a 1940 Farmall M tractor owned by the local dealer. It had a toothless 16?" wide bucket I have seen stumped trying to dig a hole.
By 1964? a local bought a dedicated backhoe/loader, a Case Construction King, I think a 530. He made his living until his death digging cellar holes & building septic systems. I found the tractor on its side 1985? it had travelled a miraculous 3/4 mile without a driver through farm fields downhill to flop on its side at a brook. Its owner was found dead. The coroner believes he was dead as he fell out of the driver's seat to be run over by the right rear tire.
First excavator I saw was after the 1979 flood here. A local aggressive contractor stepped out & bought two used John Deere excavators to repair flood damage at federal expense.
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Photo's of small excavation equipment dating pre 60's are kind of rare for some reason. I suppose
someone has a collection but not much that I have found. Because of the dry land wheat farming
around here there were far more crawler tractors than wheel tractors except for small truck farms
and orchards.
These photos are from Joe Drazan collection, many of these crawlers were built by Best. All photos
are of the surrounding area.
