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ANTIQUE IRON Keep it in the Family By Tom Jackson When your family is in the quarry business, you tend to run through a lot of heavy equipment. But there’s a sentimental reason Larry Kotkowski, president of Lakeside Sand and Gravel, Mantua, Ohio, has hung onto this 1942 Bucyrus-Erie 15B shovel. It’s the machine his […]
April 27, 2012
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Antique Iron By Tom Jackson A String of Pearls David Rexing, a master mechanic with W.B. Koester, a highway and earthmoving company in Evansville, Indiana, shows off his vintage 1922 Cletrac F machine. Cletrac was the trademarked name for the machines produced by Cleveland Tractor, founded in 1918, which merged with Oliver Farm Equipment in […]
February 27, 2012
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Final Word
Antique Iron A military mystery According to owner Mike Rohleder of Ferdinand, Indiana, this may be the only 1951 Schield Bantam ABM 51 military pull shovel in existence. Rohleder acquired the machine 10 years ago and put it to work this summer at the Historical Construction Equipment Association’s annual convention. This cable-actuated digger was built […]
January 9, 2012
In addition to his ABM 51, Mike Rohleder (far right) has also restored a Euclid S-7 scraper, a Caterpillar #212 single drive grader and a Little Giant Combo 12 hydraulic excavator.
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