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ID this old heavy equipment for me
- Thread starter BlackdogGS
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BlackdogGS
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I think its a Manitowac .
Wrench97
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Probably a home brewed yarder for retrieving logs.
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BlackdogGS
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Took me a while but I got it. It’s a 1944 Manitowoc cable log loader.
Took me a while but I got it. It’s a 1944 Manitowoc cable log loader.
Vid of one operating.
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BlackdogGS
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That’s the one.
Vid of one operating.
4xdog
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Well, at least one can see why that weird dog-legged boom is there -- to cantilever the log when it's picked up from one end. It looks pretty inconvenient, I gotta say. Perhaps in those pre-hydraulic days when cables and winches were how those things worked it was an optimized design.
Well a picture from the backside should have revealed the Bucyrus name.
They were started here in the city I work for.
Marion, Marion power shovel, a town about 20 miles away.
Not mentioned here but Galion, rollers and graders, came from the next town over. We run mutual fire with their city...
Shame to see them all gone now, much like Baja boats, but Checkmate still churns out a handful a year.
They were started here in the city I work for.
Marion, Marion power shovel, a town about 20 miles away.
Not mentioned here but Galion, rollers and graders, came from the next town over. We run mutual fire with their city...
Shame to see them all gone now, much like Baja boats, but Checkmate still churns out a handful a year.
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BlackdogGS
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I made a 3 minute video on some old equipment I found.