well i was out and about for a Sunday drive and saw some green iron sticking out so i had to stop and take some pic's. they where being used this past year and are parked in the RM / county's yard for the winter. they are homemade but looks like they have done lost of work in there day. i would hate to have to try and back one up on slick clay. they are located southeast Saskatchewan. hope you boys like made my day.
looks good to me. here's the patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060120831
Triple header DETROIT!!!
that scraper really sings with all three wound up
I remember in the early 70's seeing double bowl TS-24s working on I-90 in central Washington. Looked like quite the handful to run. They were custom built by the contractor that owned them.
Tandem 24's in action
92s really scream but 110s Howl!! I sometimes miss the old 110s most other days Not so much!
TS14s Lots of 4-71 noise running in new channel for the Colorado river at the Az-Calif, Ripley border-over the wooden bridge. 115F @ 9am, keeps you toasty. No ROPS, just a small fiberglass canopy. NO seat belts. TS14s air controlled throttles, rear engines would stick on an rolls the front scraper over. Center axle housing breaks off; borrow align jig from Euclid dealer and repair. Rear-Rear 4-71 would run the longest hours between overhauls. Fan blades disappeared from sand wear. Teenage adventures, LOL
This one only has a front and rear engine, the front bowl isn't powered but has a planetary axle. Hard to see what the rear engine is. But definitely not a 6-71 inline.
Not TS14 like op's post Looks like rear engine is 8V-71
With a turbo Bob
*8V-71T
That's what it looks like. I wonder what kind of life they got from the convertor and trans. That TG trans was hard pressed at 300HP I believe.
They have 2 of the newer and 4 of the older Kenny Harris built TS24 not 14. 12-71/8-71 and 12-71/6v-71 19 D9G's on the ready line waiting and waiting...
i feel a 6-110 dose not really howl. there more like a growl a DD trying to sound like a CAT. i would like to have one some day in my collection that's for sure as they have a sound all of there own . i am really supersized that he got a patent for something so old / something that was done by Euclid as well back in the day. plus it seems that scraper are coming out of favor more and more. maybe with CAT's new auto load scraper crap they be able to put ATD driver's in them and still not have to know anything heck it might be better as they won't even need to know how to back up just keep going around in circles. lol i guess that goes to show how much good a patent is.