Motor-scraper or Wheeled Tractor Scraper

[vince]

in the right application and job site, a scraper fleet is far superior to excavators and dump trucks apparently ... unbeatable for the right muck shift ...

To right worked on Angelsey leveling a square mile for alluiminum plant in the 60s 3 Cat631s 3 TS14s 3TS24s moved an unbelievable amount of earth in a short time,Had good weather though wet weather is the down fall with Motorscrapers

 

[vince]

 

[vince]

in the right application and job site, a scraper fleet is far superior to excavators and dump trucks apparently ... unbeatable for the right muck shift ...

I drove both motor scrapers and tractor and boxes in the late 1960s and 1970s
a fleet of motorscapers in good conditions and fast hual road would shift a lot of muck in a day.
I was on one job shfted a million cube in a few weeks with 6 scrapers
If the going was wet and a short haul tractor and boxes where better I use to like cat 68a and box
photos of 2 different scrapers I drove

 

[Bob]

I saw them about but never worked for them did work for Blackwells for a few years Gleesons ,Highways ,French and Wyatts on earthmoving driving all different plant don't think there was any plant I didn't drive at the time

 

[vince]

I saw them about but never worked for them did work for Blackwells for a few years Gleesons ,Highways ,French and Wyatts on earthmoving driving all different plant don't think there was any plant I didn't drive at the time

Such a small world Blackwell's keeps coming up but l never ran into themI worked mainly around London area and Wales,Did you ever run into my dad Jim Martin quite well known in the plant game Plant manager and later Clerk of works on many large earthmoving jobs

 

[Bob]

Such a small world Blackwell's keeps coming up but l never ran into themI worked mainly around London area and Wales,Did you ever run into my dad Jim Martin quite well known in the plant game Plant manager and later Clerk of works on many large earthmoving jobs

Cant recall you Dads name nearest I worked to London for Blackwell was Hillbrook Bedfordshire and Ardliegh reservoir Colchester. Didn't Larry Webb come from the St albans area great times good money and none off the crap people have to put up with now no tickets to show when you went for a start just lets see you perform

 

[bobthebuilder]

Such a small world Blackwell's keeps coming up but l never ran into themI worked mainly around London area and Wales,Did you ever run into my dad Jim Martin quite well known in the plant game Plant manager and later Clerk of works on many large earthmoving jobs

did you ever come across haywards from chepstow ?

 

[vince]

did you ever come across haywards from chepstow ?

Rings a distant bell did they run some big Cat scrapers 657?

 

[vince]

Cant recall you Dads name nearest I worked to London for Blackwell was Hillbrook Bedfordshire and Ardliegh reservoir Colchester. Didn't Larry Webb come from the St albans area great times good money and none off the crap people have to put up with now no tickets to show when you went for a start just lets see you perform

Spot on with St Albans,yer I started at 14 imagine the uproar that would cause now

 

[vince]

Spot on with St Albans,yer I started at 14 imagine the uproar that would cause now

 

[V8Druid]

did you ever come across haywards from chepstow ?

you know Eddie, Bob? nice fella .. bought a couple of cranes from him over the years ... very good friend of my old man's, him and Dave (who's surname I can never recall)