comparison between crawler loaders which is the best

[V8Druid]

The last muckshift outfit I worked for had a Nooteboom 80 tonner.mostly the driver would drop the deck flat on the floor and we’d side load. Excavators, dozers, Drotts, even sideloaded a duck once. The swan neck only came off for the dumpers. I’ve only loaded over the side once in the last twenty years, nowadays drivers are a bit more precious about their paint.

My dad worked on a farm and they had a knockout axle low loader Behind a tractor for moving all of the farmcrawlers (up to D6) round the farm. He said the only time they knocked the axle out it was a nightmare to get back so that was the last time it came out. Our farm manager had been on Diamond T and Antars in the army and they had the same problem. He reckoned he’d seen a Centurion side loaded more than once. I saw my dad move a TD18 from one part of the farm to the other, along a public road, with the tractor sideways across the trailer. He had more faith in the brakes than I would have had.

not a difficult proposition I wouldn't have thought ... amazing how you can juggle 'em about in tight spots picking and lifting yerself about

 

[CPS]

The last muckshift outfit I worked for had a Nooteboom 80 tonner.mostly the driver would drop the deck flat on the floor and we’d side load. Excavators, dozers, Drotts, even sideloaded a duck once. The swan neck only came off for the dumpers. I’ve only loaded over the side once in the last twenty years, nowadays drivers are a bit more precious about their paint.

My dad worked on a farm and they had a knockout axle low loader Behind a tractor for moving all of the farmcrawlers (up to D6) round the farm. He said the only time they knocked the axle out it was a nightmare to get back so that was the last time it came out. Our farm manager had been on Diamond T and Antars in the army and they had the same problem. He reckoned he’d seen a Centurion side loaded more than once. I saw my dad move a TD18 from one part of the farm to the other, along a public road, with the tractor sideways across the trailer. He had more faith in the brakes than I would have had.

Walters plant used to side load almost everything on the drop bed nooteboom trailer. I got pretty good at side loading diggers and dozers under the watchful eye of John ram the driver. Real old school guy that would tell you go ahead a do it for him.
The dumpers used to go on over the rear, 2 old rims on the floor and up and over

 

[CPS]

Found a video of it online.... 25s and 40s like this all the time

 

[1RB]

I side loaded a 130 hitachi & dumper not long ago on a golf course job. Chap was going back to Ireland & wasn’t in the country but none of the other lads would load so I got a call to sort it out

 

[Bri963]

not a difficult proposition I wouldn't have thought ... amazing how you can juggle 'em about in tight spots picking and lifting yerself about

Not the easiest to sideload. Not the first time, anyway.

 

[barracane]

guys the summer is over, but here in calabria it is a beautiful day, you can still sunbathe and take a good bath greetings from monasterace.

 

[topkit]

Great pictures there it looks lovely, God I wish my passport was up to date! Its pouring hard with rain here in Kent very mild though!

 

[barracane]

unfortunately there are no more seasons, we pass from hot summer to thunderstorms, the planet has become tropical, now the phenomenon is unstoppable, there is no turning back, it does not snow it rains like floods, the glaciers have melted in the scorching sun , the sea level has risen, the phenomenon is irreversible, it will mean that at Christmas instead of going skiing we will go to the sea to swim and sunbathe and tan, now the planet is seriously ill, we will have to get used to the worst, greetings to all from Calabria and monasterace.

 

[V8Druid]

unfortunately there are no more seasons, we pass from hot summer to thunderstorms, the planet has become tropical, now the phenomenon is unstoppable, there is no turning back, it does not snow it rains like floods, the glaciers have melted in the scorching sun , the sea level has risen, the phenomenon is irreversible, it will mean that at Christmas instead of going skiing we will go to the sea to swim and sunbathe and tan, now the planet is seriously ill, we will have to get used to the worst, greetings to all from Calabria and monasterace.

amazed you had any skiing that far south @barracane ? .. glacier only or general/widespread snow fields?

 

[barracane]

gambari or sila or aspromonte are known winter tourist areas, sila il pollino, Camigliatello Silano is very well known and visited in winter, you don't know it is like the abetone. Calabria is not only beaches alone, but also macaroni with goat sauce, grilled boar, roast goat n'duia spicy wheat bread, oil, caciocavallo and above all good wine, I made you water. greetings from monasterace

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[Old Operator]

I remember a 19RB side loaded onto a knock out axle trailer - it was not slewed so the sprockets / idlers hung over either side!! No markings or escort vehicle either. To make matters worse it had a 30ft dragline lattice boom hanging way over the rear & swinging bucket! Came through Ironbridge, up to & through Much Wenlock, & back to Maws Jackfield, Was about '75. A fairly small trailer towed by a Guy Big J4. How they got away with stuff like this I do not know. My own firm moved its 22RB's with a 35 ft stick hanging out to the rear, but did knock out, so at least tracks no wider than the bed. Local firm CJ Pearce always used to dismantle the booms - the head bolted under the base section with a set up they fabricated, theirs had an A frame that carried the upper 'candelabra' pullies (needed to use the boom at shallow angles) & just pendant ropes to jib head, so easy to split down. As late as '79 they fitted a face shovel for a muck shifting job, they also had a rope backhoe but I never saw this in use

 

[barracane]

Ruston-Bucyrus 22-RB

Ruston-Bucyrus 25-RB​

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[V8Druid]

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Ruston-Bucyrus 22-RB
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Ruston-Bucyrus 25-RB​

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up rated 22 with a massive tail weight addition

 

[GazCro]

up rated 22 with a massive tail weight addition

And in gods country

 

[Old Operator]

Lovely pics, I remember when one of these was on every larger site in the country. On the bottom pic the 25 SC has the A frame I mentioned, the jib would be dropped onto blocks, split in half, then link bars were added from the top of the red A frame to lugs on the jib base section, allowing it to re lift, machine move forward till jib sections overlapped, re lower & add the angle iron & threaded rod joiner bars, re lift with upper jib section stowed under lower. A compact neat safe unit to transport. Made up by Pearce's fitters in workshop.
I would guess the 25 SC was a true crane with one brake pedal in the cab, as the 22 was built as either a twin drum ICD universal crane excavator, or a lift crane only with a 'reduction reverse' stub shaft for 'power load lowering' to save the brake overheating. I knew of manual, part air, (air assist on the 3 most used functions) heard of full air, & a version using hydraulic motors throughought (perhaps a prototype, very slow in use, no good except as a lifting machine I was told) Last new 22 was built 1981 in UK (Last 22B built '76 in USA) After that any new ones were 'ground up' factory rebuilds to as good as new. Excellent reliable simple machine. Believe some made under licence in Sweden?

 

[barracane]

25 SC dragline?

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