Taylortractornu
Charter Member
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2003
- Messages
- 481
- Location
- Iuka, Mississippi
- Occupation
- Privvate landfill operator/manager
The Cat scraper to sheeps foot conversion made me want to post a picture of our 518 Cat feller buncher we bought to make into a landfill compactor. Cat used to make a 518 Conversion that they sold with either landfill wheels or sheeps feet. We needed a compactor for our landfill as they new material we dump is more bulky. We looked all over worn out 816 cats were abundant but in bad shape. Found all larger ones cheap up north but were too big and pretty much ragged. I told dad about the 518 skidders I remebered i nthe backs of the Cat books we had when I was a kid. The neighbor had an old mid 80's 518 turn around feller buncher shear. Its basically a reversed skidder with a boom to lift the cutter. We purchased it for 14000 and a blade off a 290M Clark scraper and 4 wheels off a 2 Hyster rollers. My friend William Davis did the conversion with me finding the parts and researching. Ill try to post a few resized pics. In all the conversion and machine cost totaled 10000 less than a used set of Caron wheels.
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