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A very early Hyster D grid roller, photographed in August, 1995.
Grid Rollers
In terms of numbers sold, the Bros SP54B was one of the most popular self-propelled pneumatic rollers. It weighed 6,120 lbs. empty and could be ballasted to 25,000 lbs. It rode on nine 7:50x15 tires.
Pneumatic Rollers Versus Steel Rollers
Given the pronounced upward tilt of the frame to the front drum, this very rare Rumely Oil Pull three-wheel roller is probably a conversion of a traction engine. It was the featured machine at the Historical Construction Equipment Association’s 2017 International Convention and Old Equipment Exposition in Carthage, NC, and is owned by show host Ken Eder.
How Many Drums?
This Galion Iron Works International roller is equipped with an underframe blade and rear scarifier for road repair. It also illustrates a common engineering practice from the 1920s in which industrial tractors (in this case a McCormick-Deering 10-20) were used as the powertrains for an amazing variety of machines.
How Compaction was Mechanized
Buffalo-Springfield K-45B Kompactor
The First Embankment Compactor
Hyster was the leading producer of compaction wheels for two-axle scraper tractors. Here, a Cat 630A is equpped with Hyster C400B padfoot wheels with cleaning bars.
Converting Wheel Tractors to Compactors
A LeTourneau-Westinghouse C-500 prime mover with two unpowered scrapers.
Component Interchangeability Among Tractors and Scrapers
With the double-jointed articulation typical of this design, the Allis-Chalmers 555 push tractor had a turning radius of roughly half its length. It was offered only in 1962 and 1963.
Rubber-Tired Pushloading Dozers
The ancestor of all wheel dozers is this diminutive machine, a John Deere D farm tractor outfitted in 1936 with an experimental blade designed by R. G. LeTourneau.
The Rubber-Tired Dozer
Caterpillar D9H crawler tractors in the SxS arrangement, with the standard 24-foot dozer. The Double Dude variant’s angle dozer was twice as long, and the tractors were offset 11 ft. to accommodate it.
The Side-by-Side D9
Caterpillar D9G crawler tractors with the Quad-Track Arrangement, shortly after the arrangement was introduced.
The Dual D9
Caterpillar D9G crawler tractors with front cushion push plate (left) and rear cushion block (right).
Pushloading
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