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Euclid Belly Dumps
- Thread starter Northart
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Northart
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Lashlander
Senior Member
Hey Northart! AIC sure does like the old B-70 huh? Last I heard they were out trying to round up everyone they could find for the Anchorage port job.
Construct'O
Senior Member
Decal
In the last picture of the decal on the side of the box.There use to be a story told about the guy pointing in the decal.
Would anyone care to elaborate on that :drinkup??????:usa
In the last picture of the decal on the side of the box.There use to be a story told about the guy pointing in the decal.
Would anyone care to elaborate on that :drinkup??????:usa
bushcat
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Well at least they have the parking brake set in the second last pic.
stepp3360
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Hey, Northart
Do you have any more pictures of the B-70's. Which companies still run these rigs on the Slope?
Thanks, John
Do you have any more pictures of the B-70's. Which companies still run these rigs on the Slope?
Thanks, John
surfer-joe
Senior Member
There's a fleet of three B-70's working just down the road a ways from my house. Rinker had them, now belong to Cemex. You see these old Euc's still working everywhere. Repowering with Cats huh? Trying to become emissions compliant I suppose.
gd10r
Well-Known Member
Im with stepp, any more photo of any old euc bellys would be appreciated. Thanks
Graham
Graham
dirtwhore
Active Member
Thats ol Pioneer Pete. Just Euclids way of pointing to the future of earth movers!
Northart
Senior Member
Euclid B-70's
Hello Stepp3360, Lashlander,
AIC and Alaska Frontier Cons't , maybe ?? SKW-Eskimos, have all the remaining B-70's .
They have made the rounds through various owners, M-B, Green , Tennessee Miller aka Frontier Rock and Sand.
I like to work with the B-70's , they give you 50 yd+ load of dirt to work with. Things get done, you can see progress. Use a Cat D9 , D10 size dozer or Cat 16H grader , and things really move along, road building .
Hello Surfer-Joe,
I think Emissions compliant was an after thought when replacing the Detroits. The Cat engines were such an improvement in Fuel economy and power, that even at $35,000 a pop for conversion , they jumped at it.
I'm sure all the owners are converting for economic reasons. I see them passing through all the time at the local gas station, on the way to the Slope, and at NC Machinery's yard.
The B-70's are just a wonderful piece of equipment for Alaska Operations. But the small market place has prohibited the reintroduction of new production models.
I wish Caterpillar would build replacements along this product line. Simple tough machines. Tires and rims are a huge issue now, tough to find replacements, obsolete !!
I like the Holland Clamshell type better, wish they had them up here, as the dirt freezes when traveling from the pit to dump site. The wedge shaped box, consolidates material , packing it in tighter , so it has to be bumped to discharge, by the Dozer, sometime 3-5 times depend on how hard it gets wedged in .The frosty material just seems to freeze into one solid lump when packed in and then jostled by the bouncing, when traveling to the dump site, wherever that may be . That is the drawback in winter operations.
The B-23's had the little mechanical wheel, I seen one day it just spun off and rolled down the road, the driver tried to dump and NO Dump results ! LOL
He went down the road and turned around and come back. Tried again, till I stopped him, told him his wheel came off and to go back and pick it up. Took awhile to get it repaired, came back and did his thing. ! Trials of equipment failures in dirt working. LOL
Hello Stepp3360, Lashlander,
AIC and Alaska Frontier Cons't , maybe ?? SKW-Eskimos, have all the remaining B-70's .
They have made the rounds through various owners, M-B, Green , Tennessee Miller aka Frontier Rock and Sand.
I like to work with the B-70's , they give you 50 yd+ load of dirt to work with. Things get done, you can see progress. Use a Cat D9 , D10 size dozer or Cat 16H grader , and things really move along, road building .
Hello Surfer-Joe,
I think Emissions compliant was an after thought when replacing the Detroits. The Cat engines were such an improvement in Fuel economy and power, that even at $35,000 a pop for conversion , they jumped at it.
I'm sure all the owners are converting for economic reasons. I see them passing through all the time at the local gas station, on the way to the Slope, and at NC Machinery's yard.
The B-70's are just a wonderful piece of equipment for Alaska Operations. But the small market place has prohibited the reintroduction of new production models.
I wish Caterpillar would build replacements along this product line. Simple tough machines. Tires and rims are a huge issue now, tough to find replacements, obsolete !!
I like the Holland Clamshell type better, wish they had them up here, as the dirt freezes when traveling from the pit to dump site. The wedge shaped box, consolidates material , packing it in tighter , so it has to be bumped to discharge, by the Dozer, sometime 3-5 times depend on how hard it gets wedged in .The frosty material just seems to freeze into one solid lump when packed in and then jostled by the bouncing, when traveling to the dump site, wherever that may be . That is the drawback in winter operations.
The B-23's had the little mechanical wheel, I seen one day it just spun off and rolled down the road, the driver tried to dump and NO Dump results ! LOL
He went down the road and turned around and come back. Tried again, till I stopped him, told him his wheel came off and to go back and pick it up. Took awhile to get it repaired, came back and did his thing. ! Trials of equipment failures in dirt working. LOLNorthart
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Northart
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B-70 Part 2
Same job site.
Isom Creek Cut brought down to Finish grade and fill also. Note the different geological formations !
2nd pix is of a broken spindle on a B-70. Welder was brought in and repaired it.
2 Cat 988 loaders load the B-70's , then the B-70's run over the scales for pay tonnage. Forgot the tonnage !! CRS :beatsme
Same job site.
Isom Creek Cut brought down to Finish grade and fill also. Note the different geological formations !
2nd pix is of a broken spindle on a B-70. Welder was brought in and repaired it.
2 Cat 988 loaders load the B-70's , then the B-70's run over the scales for pay tonnage. Forgot the tonnage !!
CRS :beatsmeAttachments
Northart
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bushcat
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Real nice pics you posted Northart.
Lashlander
Senior Member
Real nice pics! Hey were you working on the Hicks creek job last season?
Northart
Senior Member
Job
Hello Lashlander,
No, I went over to Anvik, an airport job.
Hicks Creek is the last major challenging rock job on the Glenn. Everyone will be happy when that is done.
They dumped a Manitowoc 777 crane over there. Not good.
Hello Lashlander,
No, I went over to Anvik, an airport job.
Hicks Creek is the last major challenging rock job on the Glenn. Everyone will be happy when that is done.
They dumped a Manitowoc 777 crane over there.
Not good.
Lashlander
Senior Member
I was kinda wondering if you had any pics of it. I saw a few up at Palmer but never got to keep any. Pics are pretty tight on it. I knew a Pilebuck on the job, he said within minutes of it going over someone was scraping the company stickers off. It was a sad site. I really hate to see things like that happen.
stepp3360
Well-Known Member
Northart,
Thanks for the great pictures! Keep them coming! Whom is doing the Glenn Highway rock job. Is Hicks creek near Sutton?
John
Thanks for the great pictures! Keep them coming! Whom is doing the Glenn Highway rock job. Is Hicks creek near Sutton?
John
