Euclid-Terex, at 1 time the green machines with the sticker of a Man pointing to the Workshop on seemed fairly common in the U.K. the loading shovels, Mine Cars and Scrapers being the common chariots, the Dozer side of things always seemed very thin on the ground here, anyhow around 30 years ago I used to do an amount of work for a Co called Pipeline Equipment Services (P. Strange) sometimes he would send me off for a week or 2 driving a tractor and box (Pan), 1 job was digging out a wetland area/lake for Peter Scott at Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust, the mount was a Euclid tractor pulling a CAT 435 box, the Euc' had I think a Baker CCU that was a bit of a knacker job as it would blow a seal (Big O Ring) if you gave the winch some Boot, plus the howl out of the motor would scare the Wildlife off, this Euc' had the single nose ram for the blade although the blade was stripped off to put the tractor in G.T. Spec' also known as Race Performance Mode, 1 thing I did notice compared to a D7E the Euc was an Alcoholic for our Cherry Aide, but the tractor would start instantly and pulled very well, I seem to recall that it also was about as wide as it was long.
The Army was littered with the Euc Iron and it would seem a tasty mount to own was the Shovel with the recovery winch stuffed in the front of the cab, to re-seal any ram was easy with 1 seal kit fitting all the cylinders (I think?) if you ran the hydraulic oil low the steering packed up needing a valve control venting to sort things, the common repair that I used to get was the replacement of the Torque drive plate that used to tear up, on the Euc Scrapers well its hard work only getting stuffed into them constantly, it was always said to run 5 TS 14's you need to turn up with 7, I can recall once getting sent to a site with 17 Maggi Deutz 3 axle dumpers, out of 17 only 3 would do a days work, it took me 5 weeks to get all of the dumpers up on their feet working, some had snapped through the Chassis behind the Cab, looking back on things I had to work like a Dog, thankfully things are easy now.
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