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by TaylorLambert
Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:34 am
Forum: Scrapers
Topic: Wabco self loader
Replies: 0
Views: 1847

Wabco self loader

Here a Wabco In Dothan Alabama It was used with a grader and Loader to put in a subdivision then parked.
by TaylorLambert
Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:27 am
Forum: Wheel Loaders
Topic: John Deere and Michigan
Replies: 3
Views: 3307

John Deere and Michigan

Heres a JD loader with a rake on a site in Florida. With the sand down there near the coast the wheel loaders with rake are more common than dozers.

And heres a sad old Michigan rigid frame with part of a ripper set up on back.
by TaylorLambert
Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:06 am
Forum: Excavators
Topic: Truck mounted Gradall and an old IHC backhoe
Replies: 0
Views: 1284

Truck mounted Gradall and an old IHC backhoe

Going through my old pictures I found a picture of an old truck mounted Gradall on an euipment dealers lot in Marianna Florida.
THe IHC backhoe is 330 IH with a Pippin digger I think, i cant remember. It had a backfill blade and a stainless steel bucket. This was at Bulls Hit Farms display.
by TaylorLambert
Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:46 am
Forum: Graders
Topic: Graders on Florida vacation
Replies: 1
Views: 2189

Re: Graders on Florida vacation

Heres a few more. Heres 570 John Deere that was near the motel on State road 312. The site also had a few loaders and one with a rake for brush work and a 2 axle atd. The next is another towed grader at Bulls Hit Farms In the museum part.
by TaylorLambert
Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:33 am
Forum: Graders
Topic: Graders on Florida vacation
Replies: 1
Views: 2189

Graders on Florida vacation

Heres a few pic we took on one of our anniverary trips to St. Augustine FLorida. Takes about 12 hours to get there with me driving stopping to take pictures. There was one man that had a Wabco self loading scraper, and a Cat grader I think it was a 12, and a sad old Michigan loader outside of Dothan...
by TaylorLambert
Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:11 am
Forum: Graders
Topic: Maybe a Galion 5?
Replies: 7
Views: 4410

Re: Maybe a Galion 5?

Deas has it. Thats a Galion 503. My brother bought one with out a cab and thought that a shifting fork was bad in the transmission. It was run out of adjustment and crashed some gears. Its at the shop stripped down. Just a big neck and a seat and blade. My brothers 503 has a gas 6 cylinder IH motor....
by TaylorLambert
Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:38 pm
Forum: Graders
Topic: selling the fleet
Replies: 10
Views: 9504

Re: selling the fleet

Huber made grader/maintainer like that from a Huber tractor. Later I think theycombined with Athey and made a uintised frame machine that was hydroststatic. There was one here in my home town a few years ago with a paving crew that had a loader on front. M wife and I got to St Augustine FLorida for ...
by TaylorLambert
Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:23 am
Forum: Misc earthmoving equipment
Topic: Some Historic Equipment.
Replies: 13
Views: 6950

Re: Some Historic Equipment.

Dad had the misfortune of using one of these engines on a sawmill as a kid in the 50's. It ran on kerosene or another distillate called tractor fuel.
by TaylorLambert
Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:04 am
Forum: Misc earthmoving equipment
Topic: Scrape dozers
Replies: 5
Views: 5873

Scrape dozers

Anyone here ever get to experience a Frutiger scrape dozer? I saw my first one on the old Polytac site and got a few leaflet from Fruitiger. Ive seen a few You tube videos to. Id love to have one at the landfill right now and in the winter for moving cover soil. We are in a sand and clay mix that mo...
by TaylorLambert
Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:57 am
Forum: Misc earthmoving equipment
Topic: Some Historic Equipment.
Replies: 13
Views: 6950

Re: Some Historic Equipment.

THe pans in the top photo are most likely Henry scrapers They were a rear dump scraper. My neighbor that ran alot of AC machines had one for back filling bridges and other areas that a dump was needed. It used just one set of hydraulics that lowered the bowl to cut then tipped it back for the carry ...

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