New Cat 5510T scraper

[old-iron-habit]

Seen this at the Rock River Threshery last weekend. Folks that talked to the dealer reps claimed that they were told it will run 25 MPH with hardly no track noise. Bit different style tracks chains on it. Would have liked to see it work. I goggled it and came up with nothing in the Cat new product line. There is supposed to be three of them going to a project somewhere in the next couple of weeks. Sorry I did not get more pictures. Got caught up in everything else going on.

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . .

Looks to be some mechanical carryon/doodad right there in the bowl, some sort of auger maybe?

Cheers.

 

[RonG]

How the heck do you check the oil?How do you even get in it?Pretty fancy stuff,thanks for the pics.
Ron G

 

[old-iron-habit]

Yair . . .

Looks to be some mechanical carryon/doodad right there in the bowl, some sort of auger maybe?

Cheers.

The scraper part actually looked very conventual except for a 6" deeper cutting edge in the center section of the front lip of he bowl. They claim to self load easily. I wonder if because they call it a 5510T they will also be making a wheeled version.

 

[DB2]

I believe that cutting edge arrangement is called a stinger

 

[clintm]

that machine was at con expo a few shows ago. if I remember correctly it is built and sold by a contractor in the mid west

 

[blademan150]

O-I-H, Thanks for posting that, I saw it at the Rock River show too, but do to a severe case of CRS, I forgot the numbers and when I went on Cat's site as you said nothing about it on there. I worked for the contractor whose name is on this one for almost 25 yrs til I retired, a buddy still works there and said they had a few on a job and they worked good in soft ground where the 627's struggled and the haul was to far for cat and pans. I didn't get any feed back on how they were to run. I even went on the contractors site in the equipment list and job videos couldn't find them there either, I did find a picture of me in my JD 772 at the ADM switch yard.....As Bob Hope always sang "Thanks for the Memories"

 

[old-iron-habit]

I sure would have liked an opportunity to take it out in the big toy playarea for a few loads and dumps. That hard soil at the show would have been a great test for it.

 

[Desertwheeler]

I saw it at the con expo it seemed pretty cool. I had pictures of it but they are on my computer.

 

[old-iron-habit]

that machine was at con expo a few shows ago. if I remember correctly it is built and sold by a contractor in the mid west

It had Caterpillar all over it. I wonder if it is like some of the other new Cat stuff. A dealer modifies a machine to suit a condition and if sucessful Cat picked up on it. Pererson Cat comes to mind with the enhanced push Cats back in the scraper heyday.

 

[DoyleX]

Nyen Excavating in MN had one for a year or two. A frenemy of mine had his twins running with it. The way it sounded his 30-40 year old 27's broke down less then this new thing. It had lots of track problems. I remember watching it load painfully slow in hard clay and had tons of track noise at speed. Maybe that was before the pre scalloped rails and rubber coated roller/idler everything...

 

[Shimmy1]

The scraper part actually looked very conventual except for a 6" deeper cutting edge in the center section of the front lip of he bowl. They claim to self load easily.

I believe that cutting edge arrangement is called a stinger

I put a drop center in my Deere this spring. If you have never ran one, you wouldn't believe me if I told you how much it changes a scraper. Full load, EVERY load. You can just keep right on going, boiling the dirt over the sides. At least that's how it was on my Cat and Deere this spring. Only problem with it is all you can do is hog dirt. I'm a one man/machine operation. I have to be able to do finish work with my rig. But, if I ever get a huge dirt job, the stingers will be going back on.

 

[Oxbow]

Cat did/does make an auger bowl for 27's; I bet it would work well for this application too. I am not certain how they unload though, perhaps the floor slides back behind the cutting edge like the Michigans used to.

 

[72hayes]

I talked to the Rep at the site. He said it goes 18 MPH.
It has cylinders to lift the back end as well as the front of the bowl.
He said this gives the bowl greater clearance in mud and also can be used to change the cutting edge angle.
Ferdie said he would stick with a 14A and 435 combo!
At over 1 Mil price tag you would have to move a lot of dirt.
He claims you get 3000 hours on those rubber coated idlers!
I offered to try it out for him in the Playpen but no luck!
Doug

 

[JDOFMEMI]

At that price, dirt better be worth a whole lot more than I have seen it go for.

I like the idea, but for a million bucks you could have 6 pretty good used 637's and have enough money left over for mechanics and parts to run them for a good long while, and without all of the electrical faults to deal with.

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . .

Interesting discussion.

As an outsider looking in it seems to me there is a growing disconnect between the cost of machines and their earning potential in the "real world" contracting/bid situation.

It would be interesting to see Caterpillars projected production numbers and the "dollars per yard" they come up with to justify the running and financing cost of such a specialised machine.

The machine seems to be based on an ADT and (I think) Volvo pioneered the concept of a scraper bowl on such a unit.

To me that made sense as the ADT's had high speed capability and on long hauls made for a potentially productive unit . . . now Cat seem to have negated that advantage by putting the ADT on tracks.

What would this machine do that other machines won't?

I believe JDOFMEMI is spot on with his comments in the #15 post and the 637's are not going to have conniptions should they see a bit of rock.

Cheers.

 

[stumpjumper83]

looks like a bigger and more expensive deere Bison. I'll take a 435 and a 8k

 

[EIHawkeye]

These are made by mobile track solutions out of elkader iowa, this is the same company that built the eject pull scrapers,

 

[big04cummins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z34Ov_Xi1mU

Here's a video of the Mobile Track Solutions MT-450 looks like maybe cat finally bought the idea and is going to start production.

 

[old-iron-habit]

Thanks for posting the video.
The hitch is totally different on the Cat 5510T than on the one on the video. It was a fast paced video but I would have liked to see a video of it in real time loading and working with machine sound. I can get music noise anywhere.