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why do they paint terexs green?

Firecat11

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Stopped by to say hi...

I am new to the forum and just stopped by to say hi. I am trying to get my 3 posts in so that I can post some pictures.

I am an Owner/Operator that runs a couple of Terex S23E's. I will post some pics soon.

Thanks for all the good discussion.
 

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S23E Scraper

Here is a picture of our #2 scraper in stock form before I built the cab. This scraper was originally from Southern California. I make our cabs by cutting up and using all of the steel in the OROPS. The only steel that has to be purchased is the sheet metal.

If you have ran an OROPS 33TOT tractor like a S-18 or S-23 you know that the dash is open to the fan underneath and it acts like a blast furnace. I enclose the entire dash with metal plate and seal it air tight. With the tinted windows and the Red Dot A/C unit, it will freeze you out of the cab, even when it is 115 degrees outside.

Thanks for such a great forum!!:usa
 

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JDOFMEMI

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Wow, those are the cleanest S-23's I have seen. I love what you have done with the cabs.

Are they still Detroit powered, or have you gotten them repowered yet?
 

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Nice work! Wish we had someone like you to build some cabs for the old
627B's I run...you know, heated in the summer, air conditioned in the winter....nice to see someone who had a problem, and found a way to beat it!
Do the S23E's have any kind of suspended axle or other cushion ride device?
Just wondering what it's like on "the other side"!
I grew up in Blue Springs, Missouri, in the early 70's and watched a number of old TTS-14 double pans at work...I see the owner not only detached the second pan on the scraper above, it has had the rear engine removed as well, making it an "S-14".
Pretty common among old twin engine scrapers, but if you did that to the scrapers I run, they wouldn't get much work done. Theyd be pretty helpless. I wonder what was done to 621B's to make them run like they do.
I have seen some 621's and 627's with the 3406 instead of the usual 3306, that really wakes them up!
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I always have wondered why Komatsu scrapers never got much of a foothold in the US, and why Komatsu never tried to make a dent in Cat's market share?
I'll bet it has something to do with the ride...and I'll bet Cat never lets the patent lapse on the cushion hitch designs either!
back on topic, here are a couple of old Euc pics for you....
alan627b
 

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Nice stuff in those pics. Personally the only thing i don't like about those beasts is when i used to live in town the guy excavating for a new factory here would start the thing about 7 in the morning after i came off my night shift job. That screaming jimmy was only about 300 yards from my apartment and I always looked forward to when it was out of service :rolleyes: Other than that the thing would move some serious dirt. I wondered how the operator could stand the noise so I went to ask him one day after they stopped, dude got out took his earmuffs off and puilled out his earplugs, evidently that wasn't much help for the guy you had to yell at him to be heard. Another thing I like the Terex rubber tire cranes bucket trucks and digger trucks> Altec has some serious competition in the utilities market.
 

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Nice ole Uke pictures. I'll agree those screaming Jimmy's were a noisy lot! Even if you had a muffler it still was loud and then you lost H/P. oh if I could run it one more time for the good times!:)
 

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Alan627b

Thst Euclid 16TDT is still operational - it was delivered new in 1955.
Recently had a Duco birthday when they repainted it.
Its nicknamed "Brutus"
Didn't know you'd been to New Zealand !
 

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Thanks for the great comments....

We really enjoy our S23E's. On some jobs we run along side 623B's and the operators are amazed at how we can pull away from them.

The only draw back with the machines is that they do not have any suspension. We have to keep the haul roads graded fairly well to get up and run with them. The power plants are still the 8V71 Detroit. I have a friend that swaped his out for a cummins. Now with the new emissions regulations here in California, we will be repowering our equipment with newer power plants. Since we are a small operator, we can't afford to replace the machine. I will more than likely look for a donor truck and swap engines. That won't happen till after 2010 though, so I have a little bit of time to think about it.

I could even swap in a C-series Cat engine. Ewwww... I don't know if I want to contaminate the machine...LOL

Thanks for all the great comments...:usa
 

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Sorry if I swiped your glory, Wabcoman...I found those pics on one of the other boards recently, and thought they fit the post!
Never been outside the US, but maybe someday....that part of the world would probably be fun to visit!
can you get nay "after" pics of that big Euc?
I heard that there are still some SS40's in California, just waiting for the big jobs....
alan627b
 

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Nice work! Wish we had someone like you to build some cabs for the old
627B's I run...you know, heated in the summer, air conditioned in the winter....nice to see someone who had a problem, and found a way to beat it!
Do the S23E's have any kind of suspended axle or other cushion ride device?
Just wondering what it's like on "the other side"!
I grew up in Blue Springs, Missouri, in the early 70's and watched a number of old TTS-14 double pans at work...I see the owner not only detached the second pan on the scraper above, it has had the rear engine removed as well, making it an "S-14".
Pretty common among old twin engine scrapers, but if you did that to the scrapers I run, they wouldn't get much work done. Theyd be pretty helpless. I wonder what was done to 621B's to make them run like they do.
I have seen some 621's and 627's with the 3406 instead of the usual 3306, that really wakes them up!
alan627b
i am new to the forums but am blown away by the discussions. i would love to know if anyone has any pictures of what alan627b was talking about the tts-14 or the tts24 double pans at work or just sitting or even a ts-14 triple unit, and if anyone knows where they could be found, i love terex scrapers. thanks for youre help. i just got the eric c. orlemann book on euclid and it is fabules. ts-24 frank
 

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i am new to the forums but am blown away by the discussions. i would love to know if anyone has any pictures of what alan627b was talking about the tts-14 or the tts24 double pans at work or just sitting or even a ts-14 triple unit, and if anyone knows where they could be found, i love terex scrapers. thanks for youre help. i just got the eric c. orlemann book on euclid and it is fabules. ts-24 frank

Goto

http://discuss.ibdozing.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi

Click on Euclid/Terex

then find Tandem Lizard Scraper

there are a few pictures in there.

I know its a bit of a kerfuffle but I dont like taking credit for others work.
 
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