The Classic Machinery Network

Thats a neat rig, It should be saved and in a display somewhere. You fellas got all the neat toys over there. Is there any signs of where it may have worked in the area? My late neighbor showed me a stream change that a Byers half sine shovel dug out in the late 1930s. The dipper was still there. IT...

I had a shock Friday I was in Alabama getting some steel lines made for a scraper at work. I was comming back and at a Isom cran service they had what was unbeliveable. It was the unmistakable boom of a long reach Priestman excavator. I turned around and talked to the owners of the company. THey own...

I see yall have no goods there to. I have a friend thats works for a logger. He does the feild service and fueling and drives the pull out truck to the road landing. He called me the other morning to do a run to the scrap yards looking for the fuel caps. Some $hitheads stole all the equipments fuel ...

The only 219 I saw around these parts was a friend that buys and sells trucks and equipment. He had a 219 with Feller buncher conversion from Cat. It had a stubby little boom with an underslung crowd cylinder. They had pulled the the shear head off and put a bucket on. I loaded trucks a little bit w...

Peter Thanks for the head explanation I had heard from my late neighbor one time that some had a new head for them. My dads old employer scrapped a trailer load of new parts for IH crawlers a fe years ago. It was a shame there was enough parts to run a fleet a while. I had always wondered about RR e...

Thank you for the explanation Fred. I do a little wrench work myself not so much as it was cutting into my operating time. Seemed the more I worked on the less everyone did maintenance. My late neighbor had a fleet of AC and IHC machines About 10 or 15 of each brand and had a few Cat machines. At on...

A few years ago I was introduced to Classic Plant & Machinery magazine. I learned that the British IH crawlers like the BTD20's had a Rolls Royce engine. Were these Crawlers built there and the engines also made their. Dad and one of my neighbors told me that IHC made some great crawlers for the...

Jim I bet that 300 was a fine loader, I liked running the 300 dozer but the blade was pretty slow from a weak pump. I wouldnt have thought and Owatonna Skidsteer gotten that far from here. They werent popular around here either. I have 2 Case 1840 skid steers that I use around the place and in by bu...

Nice scraper too bad he had alot of info wrong should have been an S7 and thedisplacement is 284 CI on a 4-71 Detroit. Dad started out on one here for a local contractor. He said they were tipsy and of the governor went out on them in a 90 degree turn they would flop over on their backs. They had on...

EssesexPete those MFs had bad week back ends, I think that they used a differential steered machine. I runa few MF dozers mostly a 300 with a straight blade. B100loader, Id like to try my hand at a 110 . The county road department is retiring their old 951 Cat. Its parked near the landfill and we ar...