Wabco scrapers at work

mmourer · May 6, 2009

wabco scrapers in WA

alan627b said:
Todays email from Ashley.

Cheers Alan.
Kim Piacentini was at the auction in the US when the 353FTs were sold. The farmer that purchased them was Mike Brown from Royal City in Washington state.

B & G Farms Inc.

Mike Brown

12088 Road 11 S.W.

Royal City, WA. 99357

Ph (509) 346-2294

Fx (509) 346-2296

There were 11 x 353FTs sold in the auction.

Kim travelled over to look at purchasing some scrapers and bringing them back to Aus.

We didn’t end up purchasing any items.

We have attached a picture taken at the auction.

Best regards,

Ashley and Kim

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

scraperboy222 · May 12, 2009

Alan

Awesome photos shows what you can achieve if you put your mind and wallet to it.

Bevan

rocket252ft · Aug 15, 2009

Rocksn'Roses said:
I am not a scraper person myself, but I came across this clip on Youtube and I thought you chaps might be intereseted in it. I don't think it has been posted before, but if it has, my apologies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2p-eDna77k&feature=channel_page

Rn'R.

haha i no the one i was in one of the scraper
i drive one of goodmans 252

corkpci · Aug 15, 2009

do you cylinders availabe for 229 and 339 scrapers--we have converted several to towed scrapers pulled by D8-D9 & D10 crawler tractors

ronnie · Aug 19, 2009

rocket252ft said:
haha i no the one i was in one of the scraper
i drive one of goodmans 252

all you drivers just keep at it and someday you might just be an operator

lightflood · Aug 26, 2009

353ft----still running----

I just stumbled across this site. We own an operational 353ft. We have not used it for a couple of years, but I just fired off both engines about a week ago. We bought it about 4 years ago to do a large project(for us). It was previously owned by a place called ski-world in nashville indiana. I was told they used it to build their slopes.
A guy came around every now and then and filmed us using it. He claimed he was making a kids video or something like that. He gave me a copy of the video, but I need to dig. I will see if I have some pics. I did spend hundreds of hours running it and I'm here to tell you that I sucks the heck out of fuel, but it moves alot of dirt too. Sort of makes you feel pretty unstopable when you have over a thousand hp behind you. I don't know if this makes sense, but this is what I remember someone saying when they heard it......."You'd have to be queer not to get a woody just listening to it run." I know thats some sort of oxymoron or some crap, but dammit guys I think if you heard it you would understand.
We also have a TS-18, and it is dwarfed by the 353.

Jim Irwin · Aug 26, 2009

Welcome to the forum Lightflood,
we enjoy talking about the big Wabco's

Neil D · Aug 27, 2009

Great thread-have never seen any in the flesh so its been good to read the comments from you guys,thank you!

Neil

ronnie · Aug 28, 2009

B&A equipment had some yrs. ago they got from a coal mine in alabama thay were open bowl and they were huge slow but huge them 2 v8 yamaha's with a d9 behind them would move some earth in a day

akstretch · Nov 19, 2009

need help with serial numbers to get the year of 2 scrapers i have are

i have 1 RG Letourneau carryall modle LS serial number s10600 1us7. i am not positive on the last for digits sorta hard to read
and one RGL /wabco S92317 DT-2. i am interested in finding the year they were built any help would be great thanks....

WabcoMan · Nov 19, 2009

Hi akstretch,

Your model LS Carryall is a WWII vintage machine.
The "US7" in the serial number indicates it was originally delivered to the SeeBees (Marine Construction Battallion).
This US7 stamping was common on a lot of equipment used in the Pacific campaign.

Your DT is harder to place.
They were manufactured from 1957 thru 1968-ish and LeTourneau-Westinghouse (WABCO) sold a bundle of them.
What size tires does it have on it ?
I may be able to date it from the tires as a change was made to the std. tire during production.
This would help to narrow down the date a little.

akstretch · Nov 19, 2009

need help with serial numbers to get the year of 2 scrapers i have are.... part 2

I have wheel info VF1761 does that help wabcoman? if not i am able to go look at the tires later, i also have assembly # vs126 . is that just what plant assembled them? thanks for your help.. jason

Tones · Nov 23, 2009

Has anyone operated a LW16 rubber tired dozer? They were made mainly for pushloading D Pulls

WabcoMan · Nov 23, 2009

Tones,

I have "seat time" on LW12's and LW16's.
What would you like to know ?

AKSTRETCH
Your DT scraper is probably a 1960 model as I can't see that wheel assembly listed after that date.

WabcoMan · Nov 23, 2009

Rocket252FT

Where abouts in Wellington are those Wabco's of Goodmans shown operating ?
I'm trying to recognize the scenery but can't.
Is it Churton Park ?
That Euclid is a Wabco 222G by the way

pronto · Nov 25, 2009

No, I think that video was at Emerald Hill, Te Marua - just north of Upper Hutt. Goodmans did one side of the development, John McJorrow did the other.

That job has been finished for over a year now.

bigrus · Dec 21, 2009

My 101F at work today

Hope these shots warm up you people in the winter cold of the northern hemisphere

I replaced the V8 cummins with a C series from a Case 7130 farm tractor 2 years ago. Have only just sorted the oil (over) supply to the chelsea (PTO) drive

Nice to have that fixed at last

scraperboy222 · Dec 21, 2009

hi Bigrus nice photos they are a good machine

bigrus · Dec 22, 2009

scraperboy222 said:
hi Bigrus nice photos they are a good machine

They look a bit ungainly with the cab up high but access is good, especially now with the straight six against the old 504 V8. They were known as "the travelling s#%thouse"

bigrus · Jan 16, 2010

weaknees said:
Hi Robert,
How would you like to get this old wreck on your low loader without a crane?

I collected this old girl from Wilcannia, NSW, where it died about ten years ago, then got cannabalised. I wanted the diff, and the elevators. It's blown motor and three tyres were in Broken Hill, 200k's away. I had to get them and fit the tyres, and use the hydraulics off my crane truck to lift the bowl, and steer it onto the low loader with a push from a grader. Then drive 800k's back home..... lucky diesel was only $1.80/litre back then...

Glad that I've spent time on this thread. I'd heard about that particular scraper out at Wilcannia a couple of years ago & thought of chasing it for parts. Don't need to chase anymore as its gone to a new home

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