Hough H80B Payloader

[PBEtrucking]

Morning guys, after a call from a friend and maybe against my better judgement I heard about a local contractor that had 2 hough h80b's for sale from their quarrying operation that were owned since almost new. The quarry shut down 10 years ago and father died, son parked the stuff at the shop and it sat. I went and looked and one was incredibly rough, but one was actually very complete. Dt466 engine, 3-4 yard bucket (not quite sure), new enough to be articulated. I talked to the guy and turned out I could buy at scrap price, so I went for it. Well after wiring new battery cables up, two new batteries, new fuel filters (the old ones were solid with jelly), some fresh fuel and top all fluids off, the old beast fired up after about 4 20 second cranking sessions! Trucked her home and have been loading out asphalt millings into my tri axle, gotta say this old clunky loader with 4 yard bucket sure beats the heck out of loading with the front bucket on a backhoe! Air over hydraulic brakes even work too! How'd i do for $3250? Also are their any common failures on these? Im very familiar with the dt466, but the other loaders I've dealt with had a clark or zf transmission, never had a hough drive train before.

 

[Tones]

Not positive but I think they have a Clark transmission. The early series were clunky in the transmission, the latter series had what was called at that time a soft shift full power transmission.

 

[PBEtrucking]

Not positive but I think they have a Clark transmission. The early series were clunky in the transmission, the latter series had what was called at that time a soft shift full power transmission.

99% sure its a Hough tranny, but im waiting on the parts manual to show up to confirm. It's an H80B so I think they were about 1972-1980ish, not 100%sure though.

 

[Coaldust]

Sounds like the deal of the century.

 

[Tones]

The age is my recollection, worked them when they were near new. They were young enough not to spanners(oops wenches) except for servicing.

 

[johngalt04]

wow. congrats thats a steal.

 

[kshansen]

I worked on many of the bigger versions, H90's, H100's, H120, 560's, 400's and probably a few I forget. Most of our's had Detroit's, Cummins, and a few with IH engines.

The brakes on many of ours were a bit of a problem, wedge air over hydraulic. When they worked they were not too bad but that was not too common!

 

[John C.]

That model wasn't very common in my area of the country in those days. H65, H90, H100 and H560 were the common ones. All those had Hough transmissions and in my time all had International engines. Later after I left the dealer the 560s had Cummins K series engines. I had done most of the jobs that could be done on the line, rebuilt engines, transmissions, axles, replaced bolsters, rebuilt or replaced hydraulic pumps. I liked working on the line of machines. The wheel loaders didn't have many issues back then. I thought they were far better machines than the Cat loaders. The biggest issue was the center hitches on the logging machines. That was understandable because of the application.
In my opinion you did a real good deal.

 

[Welder Dave]

There were a lot of operators that preferred Hough/IH loaders.

 

[Tones]

There were a lot of operators that preferred Hough/IH loaders.

Them or Fiat Allis.

 

[johngalt04]

had any issues with Parts? finding them I mean. I have an H 70. So far no issues with parts.

 

[kshansen]

in my time all had International engines. Later after I left the dealer the 560s had Cummins K series engines.

We had a 560 with the IH engine. Not sure if we were the first but I recall Cummins bringing out some factory guys to look over our machine and then convinced the company to put the then new K engine in it. They took many measures off our loader then drew up some plans of parts that were made to adapt it our machine.

Forget exactly what the problem was but when we first cranked up the new motor it managed to push the coolant out of the top of radiator. I think they came back and figured out they had had us connect the water pump discharge to the bottom of the radiator! After some redesign of the coolant system it ran great!

 

[Welder Dave]

Them or Fiat Allis.

I was thinking in terms of people liking them with the cab on the front section.