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Wabco scrapers at work
Some old Wabco promo films - with and without audio dug out and dusted off. The years in storage haven't been kind to the quality & color. Wabco presentation/product info Chapter 1: Chapter 2: 333FT: Marlow -
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Wabco scrapers at work
One of our former machines going up for auction in George, Washington on May 18, 2018. https://www.yarbro.com/project/details/27497/ Marlow -
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wabco scrapers in WA Alan, Great pictures of the Cat/Wabco hybrids. Piacentini were the folks we met at the auction. Indeed B&G was the high bidder on the 353's, couldn't fund the entire lot (or some other such delay) and the machines were split up. Marlow -
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Water machine Gordon, The necessity came out of a road project that was sandy material and access to a water source. It looked rather strange but it was functional. We ended up pulling the elevator frame, building a front door that was actuated by the ejector cycle and sealing up the... -
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252's I thought I reconized these 252FT' & the White Compact fuel truck behind them (no glass). They belong to Bob Webb, don't know how many runners he has left. Has a bunch of parts machines sitting on El Nopal Rd in Lakeside Ca. Dug O. Dug -- these are indeed Webb's machines. I... -
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Wabco scrapers at work
wabco scrapers Gordon -- the glacial tills in the Northwest were indeed quite dense and it was typical to see ripping tractors on (other) sites. However, if you mixed a group of machines with teeth and without teeth the need for a ripper tractor was eliminated -- though you still needed... -
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Wabco scrapers at work
wabco scrapers Thanks -- I'll keep looking for any more pictures. The auction 353's -- 3 went to a Texas buyer 2 went to a buyer near Olympia, Washington (and were resold after the project completed a year'ish later) and the remainder went to a large farmer in Eastern Washington (along... -
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Wabco scrapers at work
Load range Yes it definately work as advertised. Both the 333F singles and 333FT/353FT twins had a load position -- LOAD 1 and LOAD 2 (though the singles obviously only had one load postion). On the twins, Load 1 put your front trans in neutral and ran the engine up to the redline while... -
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Major components Sorry about that -- all the 300 series machines we had were 12V71's up front and rear. Some of the older units (333F's) started life as 12V71N's and later were "upgraded" to turbo units. The description of the gearbox/rear driveline/diff is is indeed similar to that of most... -
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The rear power train on the twins were equipped with planetary drives. The engine/trans DD12V71T mated to a Allison 5965 -- and indeed they were factory units, not custom. The 353FT's (as seen by other posts and notes) were planetary drive front and rear -- '74 with the pre-production unit... -
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Wabco scrapers at work
More scrapers 333FT's Here's some more 333FT's -
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Wabco scrapers at work
More scrapers.... Road project and landfill preload project. -
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Wabco scrapers at work
353FT's Here's some showing loading these buggers on a sand project and others with them split in half unloading after shipment.