Pic of a UNIT 271-C from a 1961 magazine ad. Got this ad from one Mr. Algood from Kentucky.
Got any more?????
Yair . . . as I have said here before that stick and nice hydraulic winches based on a good walking modern (what say twenty five-thirty ton?) excavator would do a lot of jobs easier than stuffing around with excavators and wiggle waggons in the crap. Folks these days have forgotten just how effective draglines are. Despite comments to the contrary on other sites it is viable and effective to load trucks with them. Bloke I worked for used to put four buckets onto five yard Austins and Maple Leaf Chevys 10/7. The best irrigation dams I ever built were with a D6 and a dragline. We ended up with fifty feet of water with the six feeding dirt to the dragline and spreading and compacting on the bank. The way we do things has changed and not always for the better. Cheers.
scroll down to post #12. Not sure if it's the same model or not...
Thank you for the picture! We had something like this (before my time). Family bought something very similar in the 1950s on sale at huge discount for $70,000 (lots of money then when cars were a thousand or so). Was put on a barge to float it. Didn't work well for what was purchased to do stock. Stirred more than dug. Converted it to a clam shell bucket - dropped open then would close when picked up. We found clam shell was better on it for the soup it needed to move. The operator, my uncle, unexpectedly passed young (no one else in family was interested in his project). So it rusted in a field almost as a memorial until 1970s when sting of his death passed. Ultimately was given to a local scrap metal specialist who hauled it away. I remember it when young with brush growing out of and around.