The Blue Smoke Thread

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Another period Bucyrus Erie photo 

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1 hour ago, Howard_P said:

Yes, looks like a Model 74C or similar model from the mid-1920s, chain drive.

 

It has solid fronts also could be a 63

 

 

 

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Concrete Plant pre WW2 

Looks like a C cab Mack waiting in line 

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Great Northern Paper used a lot of small railroads to haul to the nearest river before a network of roads was built in the north woods and trucks could be used 

 

A surviving unit abandoned in place 

 

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The USS Wisconsin was fired upon off the coast of North Korea on March 15, 1952

 

A Soviet-made 152mm artillery shell hit the battleship amidship on its port side. The direct hit shattered the Wisconsin’s teak wood planking, shattered the shield of a 40mm gun mount and wounded three sailors.

The Wisconsin fired a full salvo from all nine of its 16-inch mark-7 guns at the crew that fired the shot, lobbing nine 2,700-pound shells onto the gun battery. It’s highly unlikely the North Korean gun crew survived their encounter with the Iowa-class battleship’s primary weapons, considering how a full barrage could potentially sink an armored aircraft carrier. The Wisconsin’s reply was so lopsided that the USS Buck, a Sumner-class destroyer, was said to have signaled the Wisconsin the message, “Temper Temper.”

Photos of the hill the shot came from after 9 16 inch shells 

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[twostepn2001]

Two man road crew maintaining streets in Slaton, Texas 1923. The tractor is a Holt bur l have no idea what the grader is. l think it's kind of odd of all the names to describe a implement to do a road. Road patrol, blade, grader, maintainer. Are there others in different parts of the country?

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Russell Motor Patrol later became a CAT brand when they purchased them 1928

When CAT made them self propelled they used the term Auto Patrol 

Allis Chalmers used the name Speed Patrol on their graders 

In modern times the generic name is Motor Grader 

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Vintage photo of what I think is 20-30 Rumley being delivered 

Not sure of the truck make 

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3 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

 

That thing is more plow than tractor! Holy cow! 

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Osgood Steam Shovel getting watered on the Salt River Project possibly working on the  Arizona Dam which was completed in 1903

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On 12/10/2025 at 6:09 PM, jeeper61 said:

Another period Bucyrus Erie photo 

Man...that fella on the reins was thinking he was riding high in this modern age.  5 years earlier he loaded that with a shovel

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20 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

 

 

forty or so years  ago various types of those were still sitting around near some particularly nasty to plow ridges, hills, etc. all over maine. never plowed with one of those but worked with guys who did as well as Walters. Many a can of beans was heated on the exhaust manifold while pulling a hill. Nothing like no landmarks except telephone poles and snow that looked like waves on the ocean as it rolled back over the center of V plow at 6' and the exhaust over the hood and up over center of the windshield and cab glowed cherry red.

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4 hours ago, int 504 said:

 

forty or so years  ago various types of those were still sitting around near some particularly nasty to plow ridges, hills, etc. all over maine. never plowed with one of those but worked with guys who did as well as Walters. Many a can of beans was heated on the exhaust manifold while pulling a hill. Nothing like no landmarks except telephone poles and snow that looked like waves on the ocean as it rolled back over the center of V plow at 6' and the exhaust over the hood and up over center of the windshield and cab glowed cherry red.

The Maine Photo Archives had a lot of the crawler plow photos when they were being fitted by Sargent.

I had posted a bunch of them on Old Binder Guys thread.

There is some video of the  T40 in this Coles presentation 

 

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Cletrac was a popular brand for snow removal 

They paired with a couple of Mass companies for attachments 

Kind of strange being from Cleveland, OH   

Ware for loaders 

Walsh for plows 

 

 

 

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Another Sargent product 

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Here is a odd concept 

Bucyrus-Erie 60-S hydraulic swing shovel was marketed only in 1970.

It combined the advantages of a wheel loader and a hydraulic excavator.

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Looks to be a 57-58 IH one ton Brush truck with fire break plow 

Maybe state of Michigan judging by the graphics on the door  

[hardtail]

On 12/18/2025 at 7:01 PM, jeeper61 said:

Here is a odd concept 

Bucyrus-Erie 60-S hydraulic swing shovel was marketed only in 1970.

It combined the advantages of a wheel loader and a hydraulic excavator.

Hard to gage scale but might have been precursor of track skidsteers, neat operator pod

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11 minutes ago, hardtail said:

Hard to gage scale but might have been precursor of track skidsteers, neat operator pod

Think it's big

Appears to be made out of an existing excavator chassis   

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Rumley boiler works La Porte, IN 

Whole bunch of Oil Pulls

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International 10-20 Titan plowing

10-20 grading 

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I see a lot of photo credits to Gary