Fort Myers Construction back in the late 60's early 70's had six of these. The third pan on those also had an engine and generator. I worked on them for a while.
We used three of these in northen Indiana. Used to build a lake. We called them Mule trains. Used them year around,had a hot plate,heat,AC,and a T.V. for use on brakes. Would like to know what happend to all of them....I have some 8 mm film around here some were.
Steve I realize your post is many years old, but if you see this reply let me know which lake in northern Indiana you were referring to. When I was a kid in the mid-60's living in Markle, IN I watched in amazement as at least two of these machines worked constructing a levee around the south side of my hometown. The levee was associated with construction of the Huntington Reservoir (now J. Edward Roush Lake) on the Wabash River. Were you one of the machine operators I was watching?
The machine would load 90 cu yds in 90 seconds in good material. It was used to excavate material that fed a crusher as well as general site work. The project also had several L 60 s & a special one that cut a trapaziod shape where the operator sat at the back of the unit. Amazing.
Ben Ricker.... yeah, RG was a total Genius with his designing of equipment, and he sure wasn't timid about building them BIG!!.... even by "todays" standards. I just wish the 2 stroke Detroits were still "in vogue"... or that all these wonderful videos of RG's machines had Sound, so that we could Really.. enjoy them. : (
Why don't we have letournos everywhere? No hydraulics, maybe half the moving parts, and most of what's moving is modular and doesn't require transmissions... just axel planetaries, and that's it. Which fall under the modular category... The man was living in 2423...
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One of these early models worked on my grandfathers canal project in Ca in the 60s. My dad was a young swamper on a grease truck that serviced it.
It would be awesome to have the actual soundtrack of that machine at work!
Gosh, I wish this video had audio, so I could hear all those big Detroits running.
Makes you wonder what ever happened to this equipment looks like a really good machine even compared to the new stuff
That's wild! I bet it was fun to operate! What a beast!
Thanks for sharing these great videos.
Fort Myers Construction back in the late 60's early 70's had six of these. The third pan on those also had an engine and generator. I worked on them for a while.
We used three of these in northen Indiana. Used to build a lake. We called them Mule trains. Used them year around,had a hot plate,heat,AC,and a T.V. for use on brakes. Would like to know what happend to all of them....I have some 8 mm film around here some were.
Steve I realize your post is many years old, but if you see this reply let me know which lake in northern Indiana you were referring to. When I was a kid in the mid-60's living in Markle, IN I watched in amazement as at least two of these machines worked constructing a levee around the south side of my hometown. The levee was associated with construction of the Huntington Reservoir (now J. Edward Roush Lake) on the Wabash River. Were you one of the machine operators I was watching?
The machine would load 90 cu yds in 90 seconds in good material. It was used to excavate material that fed a crusher as well as general site work. The project also had several L 60 s & a special one that cut a trapaziod shape where the operator sat at the back of the unit. Amazing.
Ben Ricker.... yeah, RG was a total Genius with his designing of equipment, and he sure wasn't timid about building them BIG!!.... even by "todays" standards. I just wish the 2 stroke Detroits were still "in vogue"... or that all these wonderful videos of RG's machines had Sound, so that we could Really.. enjoy them. : (
Why don't we have letournos everywhere?
No hydraulics, maybe half the moving parts, and most of what's moving is modular and doesn't require transmissions... just axel planetaries, and that's it. Which fall under the modular category...
The man was living in 2423...