• Thank you for visiting HeavyEquipmentForums.com! Our objective is to provide industry professionals a place to gather to exchange questions, answers and ideas. We welcome you to register using the "Register" icon at the top of the page. We'd appreciate any help you can offer in spreading the word of our new site. The more members that join, the bigger resource for all to enjoy. Thank you!

Search results

  1. Wyo-Bob

    TS -14 Problem

    Friend has a Terexts-14 that all at once he lost hyd's and power to the 6sp trans. Engine (4-71) run OK till he shut it off, now the air has bled off so can't shift rear trans. Starter will tun flywheel, hyd pump and drive line, but not the engine. First thought he sheared the flywheel...
  2. Wyo-Bob

    S-18 Euc's, cats,@ ,Uranium Mine, Maybell, Colo., 1958

    That's the change in the way we do things today, we used some of the wet low grade sand to coat the haul road for temp dust control then breathed it, it would take 2 or 3 hours to quit coughing up dust and black diesel soot,and no one smart enough to even think it might be bad. Think all these...
  3. Wyo-Bob

    S-18 Euc's, cats,@ ,Uranium Mine, Maybell, Colo., 1958

    Thanks D9gdon, don't have a clue how that happened or showed up there. I've got a better one from 1960, TC 12's,TS24's, 2-S 18"s, LW 777, etc. As soon as I figure out how to get it to stay where I post it.
  4. Wyo-Bob

    Euclid Blade-Veyors

    Euc Belly Dumps & Belt Loader Only picture I have from 1952 working on the Trenton Dam, 2 1/2 miles west of Trenton, Ne. in south west corner of Ne. on the Republican River, 1949 to 1953. Usually had a TD24 and a D8 pulling and some times 1 pushing, kicking a yard a second off the belt, see...
  5. Wyo-Bob

    S-18 Euc's, cats,@ ,Uranium Mine, Maybell, Colo., 1958

    Well it's back to the drawing board, the video didn't work, sorry about the goof up here.
  6. Wyo-Bob

    S-18 Euc's, cats,@ ,Uranium Mine, Maybell, Colo., 1958

    Uranium mining was hot in the 50's & early 60's, made for good winter work when road work froze up, right up to the 3 Mile Island thing. This was 30 miles from Craig, Colo., contractor was Lakeside of Chicago, running 3 shifts w/ 48 operators right up till the Bonding Co told us where to park...
  7. Wyo-Bob

    jd Paddle Scraper,Northwest Dragline?, Buckeye Trencher?

    Side view of trencher, operator sure earned his pay on this machine, not even a seat, all controls are run standing on the ground. They have this idea that I should get these 3 running again. Tracks are off and broken, seems it was froze down when they tried to move it once, big tree had grown...
  8. Wyo-Bob

    jd Paddle Scraper,Northwest Dragline?, Buckeye Trencher?

    Being new and not having any luck posting pic's the other way, thought I would try it this way, hope it's OK. These are donated items to the Farm & Ranch Museum in Gering, Ne. They are just static display as of now.
  9. Wyo-Bob

    Terra-Cobra Scrapers

    Seems I did a poor search job before as I found all kind of info, mostly coming from this great site. MK had 5 of them right here building 3 track for UP 4 years before I came here. http://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/Wooldridge-Manufacturing-Company-Offers-Rich-History/16566/ It...
  10. Wyo-Bob

    Terra-Cobra Scrapers

    Any one heard or have a pic of one? Operators called them "The Terrible Cobras" for good reason. Late 50's on a Sunday I visited a friend of mine in Custer, SD., and he took me to their job north of Custer to show me the scrapers they had to run. They were a different breed to say the...
  11. Wyo-Bob

    Welcome!!!

    Hi Steve and every one, what a great site this is I just found, love the pic's and stories, just what I have been looking for as no one to talk dirt work here anymore. Started out as a 1934 Nebraska farm kid, hauled first load of wheat to town at 14 with a 1929 model A truck, finally semi's...
  12. Wyo-Bob

    Euclid Belly Dumps

Top