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Wabco scrapers at work

weaknees

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353FT elevator gearbox serial number
 

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Brainzie

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Hi Guys

Ref Jims post and as listed in Phil Gowenlocks book.." Wabco Australia " the following units are listed:

1979...2 x units shipped to Christmas Islands..Aus SN's AHS2678 and
AHS2679..both fitted with BM17D pans

1984......Aus SN AHS2788

1985.. .Aus SN AHS2787


Hi Ray.

did you used to work for Barry Andrews or Dolf on the katikati golf course ?

Brainzie.
 

weaknees

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Wabco 353FT on the low loader heading for a coffer dam job at Keepit Dam,

and onsite next to a 631G.
 

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Weaknees, what work is going on at Keepit Dam, heard it was to have a big upgrade, who is the contractor and do you know how much earthmoving is to be done?
 

weaknees

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Hi Gavin84w,
yeah, our bankrupt state government has allocated $145 mill to the Keepit upgrade, it is quite a project, mostly carving rocky hills down to lengthen spillways, and a lot of concreting of same. John Holland is the contractor for the first stage (half). There is not a lot of earthmoving, I have my 11 yard and 36 yard elevators there, and there are two 631G's with a D9. But we only have about 60,000 metres to move for the coffer dam, won't take long. It is a nasty little 800 metre long knife edge, 4 metre wide top, 1:1 down the back, 2.5:1 down the front.
-Steve
 

weaknees

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The float is from Boon Haulage (Tamworth and Gunnedah), and the 631G's are a new acquisition for MAAS of Dubbo. I've not met them before, but they are a good team to work with. The Cats came in from the US I think, cleaned up at Dubbo, and starting out on this job.
 

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Wabco Wowed

I like the looks of that Wabco, it's a smart looking design and I'm usually a Cat fanatic when it comes to scrapers. I'd love to see it in action along side those 31's. Come to think of it, you don't have a 639 on the job do you?

Real nice work you did. Get some video for us.:notworthy
 

Phillips107

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heres a 222H it was ex malasian military there were 2 of these machines imported into australia only had around 3500hrs on the clock.View attachment 39747

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Hello all, found this site by chance while checking out different colours for the wabco 222H. I am the proud operator of the scraper posted above, and I work alongside the other one mentioned that was imported with it.

They were indeed ex malaysian army, and they had around 3500 hours on the clock. They were imported by a small private earthmover, who soon after quit earthmoving. My employers were looking for the machine to start their business up, and they came to buy one of them. The guy wouldnt sell them one though, he would only sell them as a pair, and the price was good, so they bought both. Both scrapers were in excellent working order at the time, and being so few hours helps too :D

They only had enough work for one, so the one pictured above sat around for a good 6 months while the other one was out working. When there was a block of spare time they built a custom cab on the idle scraper, and I mean they did it properly. Completely sealed cabs, so no dust at all. Lead sheets in the floor to quiten it down. Complete foam coverage in the cab, no steel showing. The best a/c's they could buy, good enough to keep you cold with no airflow bar the a/c itself on a 40 degree day. The biggest speakers they could fit in the space they had in the roof hooked up to a nice radio with an aerial, so you get service everywhere. UHFs built in too, of course. All hooked up to a custom 12 volt system thats been implemented so neatly that you wouldnt even know it was there. We dont like being uncomfortable :tong

After the cab was done (was about a months work for the one cab) they took both scrapers out on site together, and very soon after the other one got the same treatment. My scraper is still the army green colour, and the other one has had a fresh paint job and is now yellow. My scraper recently had a full engine rebuild because it was gutless and smoky, but for some reason the other one doesnt even smoke, its just about like new still, so now they both go hard :cool:

In short, they are an absolute pleasure to drive, and theyre treated with the utmost respect. I get very upset when something goes wrong with my machine :tong
 

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A couple of things to watch out for

Nice to see some low hour machines still out & about :cool:
H's had a tendency to crack hitches as they were longer in the nose than the G's, so keep an eye around the trunion area.
Aircompressors tend to fail about 400-600hrs due to oil. We solved that by putting a seperate little donaldson on the bonnet & direct pipe to the compressor thus alieviating it breathing oily air from the 871. I don't know how many reman'd compressors we went through before a switched on fitter analysed that problem with the correct answer :eek:
Engine longevity- oil change every 100 hrs filter at 200 hrs, remember 2 stroke GM's get dirty quickly, the cleaner the oil the longer they last ;)
That my experience with 222H's :D Happy loading
 

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Thanks for the warnings bigrus.

As far as the compressors go, weve never had a problem. Theyve got the same compressors that they had when we got them, and theyve done a couple thousand hours for us now. We just drain them regularly and they seem fine. We generally do the engine oil and the filter at the same time, 200 hours, but both motors have minor oil leaks on them and tend to use about 5 litres of engine oil every 1-2 weeks.

One of the things weve found tend to give trouble is the brakes. The plunger inside them tends to bugger up every few hundred hours and they need fixing up again. And in case you were wondering, we dont overuse the brakes either, we generally use the bowl instead :tong
 

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Cruise control

Just remembered an option on the 222H was a valve like a cruise control to hold your throttle down while loading.
Years ago, late 80's doing night shift on dam construction, one of the other 222H's brake light would flash as it came out of the borrow pit :beatsme Asked the operator what was going on after a couple of nights watching this flashing light & he told me to release the the throttle hold button he tapped the brake to release it. I never knew of that control before then :eek:
 

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wabco 222

I was wondering if anyone has access to a wiring schematic for the 222 , a good friend of mine has a 222 thats he fixing up that was owned by a farmer ,so not sure if everything is correct on the wiring. It would be a great help if someone had one we could look at.
 

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Hi fast,
I have several 222 service manuals, let me know the model number of yopur mates' 222, and an email address as a private message, and I'll scan them for you.
 

fast

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hello weaknees
Thanks for the help on this, talked to my buddy and he told me it was a c6 LeTourneau somewhere between 1967-1970. I tried to figured out how to pm you and kept hitting roadblocks, not sure if it's because I haven't posted enough. Thanks again
 

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Hi Steve, I was fortunate to meet the Lowes thru Stan Lynch (a great wabco man) and drive the 353 in a tip job they were doing not far from there yard. You have done a great job restoring one of the best scrapers ever made. I remember Brendon saying that the rock had got to uneconomic to excavate using a D10 and 2 657s but he was still self loading with the 353 with the teeth on. Incredible amount of power. You may have noticed that the cabs have been lowered by the Lowes. 2 reasons they looked better and they weren't so high for transporting. The Lowes have a wealth of knowledge on the 333s and 353s and Brendon was a demonstrator operator for Wabco. We currently have 4 252s, 1 259, 1 333ft, 5 222Gs, 1 222F, 1 101F and 2 111As. When I get some time I will post some photos that might interest you. Keep up the good work. Regards Stan
 

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Anyone know the operating weight of a 333FT and the history of the machines that came to NZ? Perhaps you can help Stan?
Great stuff Weakness your 353 is credit to you. How's the second one coming along, I'm keen too see more.
 
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