Wabco scrapers at work

[knucklehead98]

If I remember correctly , my Grandpa had a 222. It was a paddle wheeler with a 318 Detroit in it. Dad started it one spring, and blew the double muffler apart. In his infinite wisdom, he made a Y pipe and straight piped it. You could hear that thing for several miles. I am not so sure that it is not the reason thath my ears ring all the time.

 

[tsdevoss]

353 pic

Thanks bruce oz for the 353 pic. I got to thinking, we was working on a dam in the panhandle of Texas and we had to drive by a well blowout site, they had to dig around the well i would say probably 500' to 700' wide ,1000' long and about 30'ft at the deepest. They used several scrapers to dig it. Alot were 627's,623's, a few 637's and one 353 where it came from i have no clue. Thanks Tim

 

[weaknees]

101G's, 222's

I operate two 101G's, have done so for over 20 years, with a 3rd machine for cannablising, and just picked up an old "C" pull with a 21 yd Hancock bowl, the forerunner to the Wabco 222. Quite a beast, 30 tonne empty, manual fuller gearbox, 8V71 GM which I currently have running at about 6 litres of diesel per kilometer fuel consumption, just traveling empty! Have to work on that a bit..I am new to Detroit's.

I have a lot of pics of the machines working, I don't know how to post a pic but my email is weakleys@gmail.com . I will send a few to anyone interested.

 

[Squizzy246B]

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[alan627b]

I'l take any scraper pics anyone wants to send me!
alan627b@hotmail.com
In a few weeks, I should have some to post too, I'm getting some of my old pics put onto CD's.
Stay tuned....
Alan

 

[Jim Irwin]

I have/had Wabco 101F and 101G and 252FT.
Great machines, will dig all day, the 252FT will move a mountain, but can be thirsty on fuel.

I have seen photos of the 353FT. My fitter did his apprenticeship at Wabco in Rydalmere in the 70s. He remembers the few 353FTs that came into the country. I believe there were only six of them. I believe an earthmover in NSW had two of them, but getting chains for them was really difficult.

I would love to see one up close and personal though.

The 101 s are interesting on a slope, you ride very high on them, but theyre a great small scraper. Still looking for more info on the 615c series II.

regards
Jim

 

[greeniron]

weaknees , i thought the d-pulls had the allision 4000 series trans
that manual box would be a cow too operate would it not

 

[weaknees]

Wabco C pull

Hi greeniron,
I think they brought out modifications to drive trains as fast as better components became available, though they stuck with the pinion-bull gear setup right through the 222 series when other models and companies changed pretty quickly to plantetries. I am used to the clark auto of the 101G's, and also thought a manual gearbox would be hell to operate, but just in driving around it seems to be quite ok, the massive reduction through the diff and pinions means it kind of "winds" (as in winding road, not moving air) into the load much like an auto does. You would get big muscles on your clutch leg before long though. Or maybe you would just leave the beast in 1st gear!
-Steve

 

[WabcoMan]

D'Pulls

GreenIron,

The D'Pulls had several transmissions over the years:
Fuller 5A650 manual with 14" clutch
Fuller 5G720 manual with 15" clutch
Allison CLT3341 powershift
and the very last D Pulls (also known as the model 109) and the 111A's had an Allison VCLT3361 powershift with the variable converterointhead

 

[alan627b]

Here are some old LeT-Wabco's i took when I was about 15 years old. C-pulls,the old direct drive D9D (1954) a 777 grader. Originally taken with a 126 Instamatic, so pardon the quality.
Alan627b

 

[alan627b]

More vintage action. The areas where this grading is going on was all farmland when I moved here, now it's nothing but houses.
Time to move again....
I am the guy standing on the draft arm of the D9 when I was about 15 or 16, and my firend Jerry is in front of it. We are both about 46 now....how time flies.
alan627b

 

[alan627b]

More 1970's action.

 

[Buckethead]

Who still has them?

Does anybody know where in America there are still some electric Wabcos like the ones in Alan627bs pics? Preferably in the northeastern U.S.

 

[alan627b]

http://www.machinerytrader.com/list...6589514&GUID=566705CBF51B4F0DB26742EC8406F0B8
http://www.machinerytrader.com/list...3&GUID=566705CBF51B4F0DB26742EC8406F0B8&dlr=1
In Council Bluffs, Iowa

 

[weaknees]

They are great pics Alan. There must have been a few tricks to operating hoist and eject winches, I'm glad I came along after hydraulics came on the scene.

 

[ronnie]

B&A contracting in gainesville, ga (there out of buisness for some time now) had some old wabco open bowl scrapers that were double barrel's slow and something else to operate they were huge and i guess the load made up for the speed

 

[mccallajmc]

I have an interest in your WABCO parts. We operate 101, 111, 222F, 222G. If you still have things available, let me know some details. If you would like to call me I can be reached at 260 609 3106 Thanks, John

 

[malcolm]

wabcos at work

wabcos should be at work

 

[WabcoMan]

One summers day back in 1976....

Equipment on this job (which was mostly sand):
Wabco 222G
Wabco 222F
Wabco 111A
Michigan 180-III

 

[malcolm]

wabcos at work

Model c s working in new zealand 1957 black and white but thats the way it was cheers malcolm