Old but still working. I don’t know the year, all I know is it is a Old but still working. I don’t know the year, all I know is it is a Lorain 500 A It runs every day at our scrap yard. Right now the primary job is to load prepared scrap. It has a 6 cylinder Detroit, and believe it or not it dose not drip. Here are a few pictures of it. I’m not sure if I should put this here or in old iron?Lorain 500 A It runs every day at our scrap yard. Right now the primary job is to load prepared scrap. It has a 6 cylinder Detroit, and believe it or not it dose not drip. Here are a few pictures of it. I’m not sure if I should put this here or in old iron?
I'd about forgotten the Lorains, never saw a lot of them and in fact, I've never run nor worked on one. They look a lot like a Hough from a distance. I believe this one is likely about a 1966 or little later model. Only areas I ever saw a few was in the great lake states around the steel mills.
Well Ive always heard that if those old detroit screamers didnt leak oil they were broke.but neat looking loader.
Wow...that's one big loader. Is this the same Lorain company that made cranes and shovels?
Sorry guys I have to make a correction to the information I posted. I don’t know how I did but I messed up big time, I mean big time. It is a Cummins. I have no idea how I messed up that bad. Sorry, my bad. ointhead surfer-joe I looked at the machine a bit better today and did not see any tags on it but I did look at the engine plate and it is a 1967 Cummins engine in her. So you hit the build date right on.
sweet looking loader, man. good to see you back on the forums, truckie!
Well, that explains why it doesn't leak... :cool2
Yes in deed it dose. She is as dry as can be. Thanks Wolf.
That or it already leaked all the oil out. I always thought that someone else built those loaders for Lorain. I have never seen one that big before, but I thought the smaller ones were built by Pettibone? Sure are rare now.
I'm glad that it still works. ________________ moving and storage company
Hey the lorain here is a bit larger than the one my dad owned. I'm already digging in the family photo albums for a picture of it to share here. It had a Cummins diesel supercharged originally. And a 3yrd bucket too. I did a lot of work on that machine,(fixing more than digging).
Yeah, thats probably the 48H series Lorain. Weren't they bought by Koehring?
:usa I did find a picture of this beast and it brought back memories when I found this picture of it at the end of our driveway. Had just used it to push a lot of burr oak limbs and logs out of the yard after trimming out and removing a few of the big oaks. Not many of these machines out there anymore., datsunman