Tag : Earthmoving equipment

Forgotten companiesLaPlant-Choate

The LaPlant-Choate TS-300 motor scraper

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LaPlant-Choate’s TS-300 owes its origins to a design formulated prior to World War 2. The TS-300 was LaPlant-Choate’s first motor scraper and despite being taken...
L-series PacemakerLeTourneau

RG Le Tourneau’s L-series Pacemaker

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Le Tourneau was a visionary machine designer. His innovative electric wheel, developed for the L-series Pacemaker motorscraper, is now used in most mining trucks. Only...
Classic MachinesForgotten companies

Forgotten companies: Heil

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Heil, whose head office and main production plant was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, was at one stage on the ‘cutting edge’ of earthmoving technology when...
Classic MachinesOff-Highway Trucks

International Harvester’s PayHauler 350 dumper

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Forgotten companiesHough

Forgotten companies – Hough

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