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Euclid Belly Dumps

Northart

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Flat tire on B-70

Just to show how the tires are changed , a few pix,
 

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euclid

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Pretty amazing, I bet that job would suck during the real cold periods. Are those cabs heated? When I was running the open cap I'd heat my hands off the exhaust in between runs, damn cold man running in 5th gear hammer down!
 

Northart

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Maintenance ?

Yes, they have heated cabs . We've moved out of the stone age . LOL :)

Changing tires is done on the job, outdoors . No shops on the job. Just parts vans,trailers. Sometimes if the job is a long one, then temporary tents are erected.
 

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B-70 Dumping

For the readers that have not seen the B-70's in action, here's how they dump. :)

The gates can be controlled to dump wide open, or anywhere in between to give a skinny windrow,medium windrow, or heavy windrow.

To get the largest pile in one spot, they stop and open the gates wide open and the 16G or 9 pushes them off. This tactic is used when , you need to shove off the road, as in building slopes . Or waste material (mud) at a dump.

Usually a Cat 16G or Cat D9N take care of the fill, this day , happened to be a Cat D8T ,as the Cat 16G was in for maintenance work.
 

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Apparently, as the story goes, the guy in the decal, that's Euclid's Pioneer Pete, pointing to the direction of the work shop for all the Cat operators.
 

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HaHa i like that!!

I remember going with my dads tyre fitters as a kid to do these belly dump tyres at a big quarry on the outskirts of Sydney and they were Eucs with the wheel on the trailer tyre to open the gates. You would often go down to the quarry and in the middle of a perfectly good haulroad there was a perfect load dumped there, of course it was not put there by choice but some failure of the control mechanism and the wheel had dropped onto the tyre and emtied the load. If i remember right the tyre size was a 27.00 x 33 and tube type!! Every tyre fitter earned there keep on them as just manhandling the tube and rustband that big was a job. I will never forget how big that tube would blow up when on its own, if you could get it out in the surf i reckon you could sit 50 people around it, just slightly bigger than a grader tyre tube!!!
 

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Apparently, as the story goes, the guy in the decal, that's Euclid's Pioneer Pete, pointing to the direction of the work shop for all the Cat operators.

Good one!:drinkup
I worked for a crushing outfit a few years ago that had an old R-35 end dump. Some one had wrote "This way to the shop." above Pete's hand with a Sharpie. Priceless!!
Jason
 

Northart

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R-35

R-35 , wow , been a long time since I seen one. They were popular during the 70's , a sturdy , reliable , tough truck.

The Cat 769's took over , and since that, now the ADT's .
 

manish

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surplus part for EUCLID B70

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
IF ANYONE WANTS ANY PARTS FOR B70 DUMPERS WE CAN HELP THEM. IN INDIA LOTS OF SURPLUS PARTS ARE AVAILABLE. MAIL ME ON sales@ddhydro.com
 

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How did India end up with all these old uke parts? Was this surplus iron to be melted down to other uses? Just curious how this works. heard from a guy some years ago that a lot of heavy iron was being sold off to China and India as a way to for them to do the iron works and make other things or return the iron as huge bulk pieces for use in the US.
 

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How did India end up with all these old uke parts? Was this surplus iron to be melted down to other uses? Just curious how this works. heard from a guy some years ago that a lot of heavy iron was being sold off to China and India as a way to for them to do the iron works and make other things or return the iron as huge bulk pieces for use in the US.
hi there! we had 100s of them working in one of our hydro electric project
therefore lot of new surplus parts are there. they were powered with
detroit diesel 12v71 engines and allison clbt 5961 transmissions.
 

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Well were the workers locals of foreign operators? I ask this question because those old ukes would give a fella one heck of a work out. And I've never seen really big indians in my worldly travels and with armstrong steering and maybe the air clutches working it was a handful any given day. In fact I used to have to operate our uke because the other two guys weren't strong enough. They got a lot of shovel work because they couldn't drive.....
 

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LL eucs

I lived in Silver Bell AZ and tthe mine had 15 plus Double LL's and what wonderful sound of 2 dd engines
 

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How did India end up with all these old uke parts? Was this surplus iron to be melted down to other uses? Just curious how this works. heard from a guy some years ago that a lot of heavy iron was being sold off to China and India as a way to for them to do the iron works and make other things or return the iron as huge bulk pieces for use in the US.

The Mangala Damn project in Pakistan,, one off the largest equipment purchases ever. I have some pics but can not post attachments
 

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Welcome, and don't give up. It takes 3 posts to be able to add any attachments. Keeps the robots from spamming the site to death.

I would love to see the pictures you have. I have seen some, but would like to know more. It's hard to imagine that much iron on one site.
 

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Good one!:drinkup
I worked for a crushing outfit a few years ago that had an old R-35 end dump. Some one had wrote "This way to the shop." above Pete's hand with a Sharpie. Priceless!!
Jason


Dude!!!!!!!!!......................... I AM LAUGHING SO HARD RIGHT NOW, THAT TEARS ARE COMING OUT OF MY EYEBALLS!!!! The wife just came in and asked me, "What's Wrong?"
 

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If I can make myself quit laughing, this is my only experience with some Euc belly dumps. My dad, my shop sup't, Cajun dirt Sup't, and myself were attending a big auction in a neighboring small town. The owner was retiring, and trying to sell every piece of const. eqt that he had. Of all eqt out on the spread, Nobody, and I mean Nobody, even took a look at the (5) old Euc belly dump units (smaller capacity, prob 20 cy, if I had to guess, with the clam-shell drive wheel rubbing on the rear tire) he had sitting out under a patch of Pine trees.
Ingenious as we think we are, we thought to ourselves, "Man, we might be able to buy that stuff and put it to work" Then, immediately, my very old-fashioned dirt sup't, w/ LOTS of experience w/ the Euc belly dumps said in his best Cajun voice, "Uhhhhh-uhhhhhh T-Mack, please don't buy dat stuff.......... we don't have any black people to rund dat stuff"........... "A white man can't run dat all day"

I know this is so stereotypical South......... but he really believed what he said and that's what makes it so hilarious. Those rigs must have really made you yearn for supper at quitting time.
 
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