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Lazyts ![]() Orange Level ![]() Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Manitoba Points: 627 |
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Thought I would start a post about the 562 scraper for fun- not sure if it has been discussed on here before. Quite a controversial machine- an engineering triumph in one sense, and possibly a financial disaster (along with 555 tractor).
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Lazyts ![]() Orange Level ![]() Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Manitoba Points: 627 |
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It certainly dwarfed the HD21 tractor...
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DMiller ![]() Orange Level Access ![]() Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Location: Hermann, Mo Points: 29922 |
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Can still remember grade contractors around St. Louis having more Allis and Euclid machines than Cat, don't remember the big turn around years when Cat overtook the market but definitely in the 70's.
Had to have been around the mergers day of Terex Euc, Allis Fiat, IH became Dresser as well when the other companies started reducing operations with foreign influx of machines. |
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Lazyts ![]() Orange Level ![]() Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Manitoba Points: 627 |
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There are a few articles floating around the internet on these machines, but they were pretty scarce, and not too many specimens have survived, I'm sure. Almost every heavy equipment manufacturer had a big scraper in the '60s, probably due to the big interstate road jobs.
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Lazyts ![]() Orange Level ![]() Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Manitoba Points: 627 |
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Andrew_D ![]() Silver Level ![]() Joined: 28 May 2013 Location: Newdale,MB,Can Points: 148 |
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There's some 562 info over on heavyequipment: http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/showthread.php?25533
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darrel in ND ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Location: Hebron, ND Points: 8596 |
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Great post! I've gotta run one of them bad boys before I die! Darrel
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Froggieo ![]() Silver Level ![]() Joined: 09 Jul 2013 Location: Wabash, IN Points: 54 |
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ii have not run Allis but I spent considerable time on Cat 627s years ago. One job,we covered a 100 acre landfill 4' deep plus a 1' topsoil cap. We had over two dozen 627s and hooked and pushed each other. It took a day to get the routine going and how to feather in and out, there were plenty of whiplash necks. But soon it really ran smooth for the next few months. We had up to three or four hooked at a time sometimes. But two was a majic number and ran in pairs most of the time. The lead pan filled first then the pusher filled, it was no problem even in hard pan grey clay which we had to dig down to. That was the only soil that passed the almost no leach specs we had to reach. They were fun to run the first time you got on one, but after a week of 12 hour days you would do anything to stay off one.
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grinder220 ![]() Orange Level ![]() Joined: 11 Jan 2012 Location: Clinton Iowa Points: 2334 |
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I would love to see a 562 and a 555 in person. What monsters!
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ac_sd ![]() Silver Level ![]() Joined: 23 Apr 2011 Points: 194 |
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Does anyone know of a 562 Scraper that has survived? Would be interesting to find one!
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Lazyts ![]() Orange Level ![]() Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Manitoba Points: 627 |
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There's a guy who posts over on the HEF that has one.
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