rustytool
Stainless
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2010
- Location
- Moscow,Idaho,USA
There's a link to a you tube video in the add.Warner & Swasey Duplex R2 (1975) : Emergency & Fire Trucks
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Largest Manufacturing Technology Community on the Web
Stay Connected:
OT : Warner Swasey fire truck
- Thread starter rustytool
- Start date
- Replies 11
- Views 5,692
TOM RICHARDSON
Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2008
- Location
- SC USA
believe this may have been built by w&s constuction div.
ewlsey
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2009
- Location
- Peoria, IL
The made excavators too.
alskdjfhg
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2013
- Location
- Houston TX
As well as telescopes.
They also owned Gradall.
They also owned Gradall.
And to cornfuse things just a tad bit more...
The excavators were made by "Badger division" in Minn.
(who also built a telescoping truck mounted machine)
And the gradalls made in New Philly Ohio. Both on rubber tires,
as well as excavator tracks.
There was a gear works too, don't have my W&S book handy.
The excavators were made by "Badger division" in Minn.
(who also built a telescoping truck mounted machine)
And the gradalls made in New Philly Ohio. Both on rubber tires,
as well as excavator tracks.
There was a gear works too, don't have my W&S book handy.
Fabworks
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2013
- Location
- California, USA
alskdjfhg
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2013
- Location
- Houston TX
Not sure If this is a hijack or not....
Thats a lot of machine, but I think hes in dreamland with that price. Ive seen cats that size and age go for that money and they have part support (at least I think they do).
Thats a lot of machine, but I think hes in dreamland with that price. Ive seen cats that size and age go for that money and they have part support (at least I think they do).
ewlsey
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2009
- Location
- Peoria, IL
I dunno about Warner Swasey, but a lot of those old hoes had pneumatic over hydraulic controls that are pretty awful. Plus I bet that thing has a Detroit screaming in your ear...
alskdjfhg
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2013
- Location
- Houston TX
Oh dont you know it. And I bet its laid out like the old cranes and draglines where the operator station and engine compartment at either one in the same, or not isolated very well.
In my P&H I can touch its 4-53 from the operators seat.
ewlsey
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2009
- Location
- Peoria, IL
Creature comforts were certainly not on anyone's mind when those machines were built. My dad had an old TD-9 IH crawler loader. Driving it was like a working out on a Bowflex 10 hours a day. I definitely would not want to get in a bar fight with a guy who ran an old dozer like that for 30 years...
My great uncle spent all of WWII in the Navy building airstrips on Pacific islands with a cable operated Cat dozer. I bet a lot of days he would have preferred a rifle...
My great uncle spent all of WWII in the Navy building airstrips on Pacific islands with a cable operated Cat dozer. I bet a lot of days he would have preferred a rifle...
alskdjfhg
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2013
- Location
- Houston TX
I actually really want a cable controlled direct drive D8. Pony start preferred....
Its pretty amazing to think about how today people complain about not having A/C, spring suspension or having to shift a manual. Where as with this old stuff, having a padded seat was high living.
Its pretty amazing to think about how today people complain about not having A/C, spring suspension or having to shift a manual. Where as with this old stuff, having a padded seat was high living.
ewlsey
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2009
- Location
- Peoria, IL
A/C? He got shot at least once while running that dozer (survived)...
