Abscraperguy
Senior Member
Call me old fashioned (not old! only 40 !) But I watched both trators and scrapers working on a highway project this summer and,sorry tractor guys, not a chance!There is no way a tractor and pull scraper can keep up to push/pull 657's . The tractors took way to long too load up and ground speed loaded or empty was not even close to the big scrapers. Now fuel economey is probabley a very different storey, but I'm thinkin it will be a long time before they park scrapers in favour of farm tractors. And before you assume I dont know what I'm yappin about, I have been operating for 22 years.
Hey you're comparing apples to oranges if you're comparing push/pull 657's with tractor scraper combos. The combined hp of 657's push/pulling is almost 2000 hp versus a tractor scraper combo will be in the 450-500hp range. If you have many millions of yards to move on one site I can see the 657's being an advantage but not if you have to transport them every coupla months.