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Lazyts 
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014 at 3:58pm |
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
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014 at 3:59pm |
It certainly dwarfed the HD21 tractor... 
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014 at 4:10pm |
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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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Posted: 05 Jan 2014 at 4:30pm |
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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.
Edited by Lazyts - 05 Jan 2014 at 4:38pm
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014 at 4:34pm |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014 at 8:00pm |
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darrel in ND
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014 at 8:04pm |
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Great post! I've gotta run one of them bad boys before I die! Darrel
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014 at 8:33pm |
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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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Posted: 16 May 2014 at 2:47pm |
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I would love to see a 562 and a 555 in person. What monsters!
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Posted: 18 May 2014 at 7:46pm |
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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
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Posted: 18 May 2014 at 10:27pm |
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There's a guy who posts over on the HEF that has one.
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