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B112
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 Posted - 08/25/2010 : 18:53:37
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These are two mystery tractors which if we can determine the make, I'll change the title! Anyone have an idea what these are? I could not get closer because I took these photo's through a fence while on vacation...
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Richard L.
USA
483 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2010 : 20:20:07
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| They both look like something from the 40's or earlier. What country were you in??? It looks like an English imagination at work there. I've got some books here with pictures of Model A era trucks that have an articulating dump body something like #2. |
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B-16_IC
USA
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Posted - 08/25/2010 : 20:52:47
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Congratulations, you've got me stumped! Whatever they are either of them would be welcome here on the ranch. |
Life is all about paying. Pay attention, or pay the consequences, the choice is yours. Rich |
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Richard L.
USA
483 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2010 : 21:14:57
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| Does that 2nd one have the seat and the steering wheel so the operator is facing the hopper? It looks kind of like a forklift. |
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B10Dave
Canada
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Posted - 08/25/2010 : 21:32:20
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| Michael. I believe you will find they are of European origin. When I visited England in the mid eighties they had lots of self propelled dumpers like those and we saw them everywhere from building sites to small scale road repair jobs. Can't put a name to either of those machines. Where did you see them? Dave |
Money can't buy you happiness.
It can however buy you a beer.
And that is close enough.
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ATF
USA
1892 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2010 : 01:13:14
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| Aye, it's a right proper lory now isn't it, you could tell me it's name and I say, and bob's your uncle, I haven't the foggiest. |
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B112
USA
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skunkhome
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2010 : 07:48:01
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| I don't think they are that old. Certainly not from the 40's or even mid 50's. I would be tend to call them Trucks rather than tractors. I have seen similar along with motorized hoppers and wheelborrows used on construction sites here in the states. |
  Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
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Cvans
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2010 : 16:39:08
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I believe they also make much larger versions of this same type of machine. Something that looked large enough to be driven on the roads but configured like the one in the second picture. Backwards dump trucks. |
East Central South Dakota
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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B112
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2010 : 16:49:31
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| These were at the Pompeii site |
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skunkhome
USA
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Posted - 08/26/2010 : 19:58:59
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| Looks like, to me, they both have the dumpster in the front. See the steering wheel sticking up over the hopper on the green one also. |
Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
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Mystery Tractors - name pending!
