Run this at a Wyoming coal open pit mine back in the 80's and early 90's , At the time there were only 7 of them in the world made because of the demand, and the time it took to build one, I will add a pic of the one I run and post it for you yo view, An awsome piece of machine!!!
Shoulda had a conveyor going up that dang hill. It's painful to watch a machine go so slowly and burn so much fuel. Oh well -- that was a long time ago.
I know this is supposed to be in a test bed R&D scenario for the first 675 ,but come on !!?? . My family has been in the coal .mining I industry for 60 years , and I cut my teeth running a Caterpillar 992C . Putting a loader like this . in a quary ,to carry shot rock ,like 6or 700 hundred feet, on an incline , rather than using it to load rock trucks ,is truly ridiculous. For some reason Michigan ," during this time period, " kissed Falcons ass. I remember hearing about the 675s working in Breathit County , at a Falcon strip job ,when I was just a kid .I remember talking to a guy who operated one of them for Falcon , and he said that they were actually a good loader ,but Falcon put them in half ass shot rock ,for a pastime. That they would never put a dozer pushing over for them ,and expected them to virtually pull out unshot slate and sandstone . I think some.big wheel at Michigan and some fat cat with Falcon ,had some kinda ,"SWEET DEAL ," Agreement . How on earth a company could stay in business as long as Falcon ,with managment doing crap like carrying material that far with a loader ,rather than using rock trucks ,is beyond me. They must have locked into one of those $45 or $50 a ton ,for crappy 12,000 BTU coal contracts . That was for several years Otherwise this kind of ergonomics ,concerning the movement of material ,would have broken even the largest of corporations. Ahh it's strange business sometimes. Lol
I remember the school bus dropping my brother and I off at the end of the road were we would meet my dad who ran one if these loading coal. We would sit in the cab until five o'clock when he got off work. Mom worked in a diner and we loved riding in the loader. The 80s were great!
Yes the 80,s were awesome I was a teenager spent over a year living in California working for relatives pool company Came home to Connecticut at 18 went to work at the mushroom farm for 3 years Then going to school for my tractor trailer license. Been driving truck Sense 94 Now I'm an old man
Kinda thought the same thing. The 475 had no problem getting a good bucket load and seemed to move it better. 675 doesn’t seem like they got the proportions quite ideally.
@generationll You are 100% right about those tires though, no tire made at the time was big enough. Of course, that's still the limiting factor today as the tire size limits the size of today's Letourneau L2350's. Still looking at this 675B move though, it just looks weird on those tires, it bounces all over the place!
Those Detroit Diesels would soon be replaced by a pair of Cummins VTA-1710-C635 diesels because the DDs were not well suited for life in a loader tthe size of a 675.I like hearing those Detroit Diesels
Remember back then, there were no 'mega' haulers like now. If anything a 12V-149 might have been better but too much for the torque converter and tranny. It was one of the biggest loaders at that time with hydraulics. It took a while for R.G. Le- Tourneau's engineers to convince him that hydraulics were better than the electric motors and rack & pinion for the large loaders the company made.
mechanical loader is not for transportation , . It is done by truck , and during loading it is not advisable to return the bucket just to pick up the material the operator speeds the equipment forward and at the same time pushes the machine in the opposite direction with the hydraulic system and the equipment and created to move a maximum of 4 to 5 meters during loading nescessario larger instructions for real performance .
This 675 needs a larger bucket and wider tires w/ reinforced roll equip....I have run these 4 years.. and not utilizing the full power and integrity of this machine is a waste...might as well go back to two smaller loaders...???
Where did/do you run these? There aren't more than a few still operating in the world. I think only a few dozen were made before production stopped. There just wasn't enough demand, some say they were before their time.
Why not a 675 & trucks ? The load on the road is where the production is, or the loader loading not tramming, would make more sense. Truckers if they spread themselves out & not wolf pack the loading tool & dump site is efficient
Only thing bad about the Clark's... When you operate them like a Cat (forward to reverse quick/still moving in the opposite direction) they like to blow the trans out of the bottom of the machine.
Joseph Rivett Uh... Yeah. That's the first thing they tell you when you become and operator. Treat every piece of equipment as if it has no brakes. Never operated a Clark that had brakes. Even from new.
+robby844 I can tell that you never been on a loader, or anything other than a 10-speed bicycle and a keyboard. I operated machinery all my life, so GTFO.
No way it’s cheaper to run that loader up down that haul road over trucks I load shot rock with 992 cat 777 haul trucks my boss don’t want my loader moving no future that I have to
favorite wheel loader of all time
Ahh man, you just can't say it enough. Gotta love the sound of those Detroit Diesels!!!
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love these old videos! I was told they had to remove the steering wheel to get the machine through the door of the R and D building.
A concert of beautiful twin 16v71 gm power, awesome!
This video is just freakin awesome! OLD SCHOOL!
I've actually rode in one of those, an ex's dad had one...very large and impressive machine!!
2 are left operating in the whole world!
Probably in mexico.lol
Run this at a Wyoming coal open pit mine back in the 80's and early 90's , At the time there were only 7 of them in the world made because of the demand, and the time it took to build one, I will add a pic of the one I run and post it for you yo view, An awsome piece of machine!!!
Shoulda had a conveyor going up that dang hill. It's painful to watch a machine go so slowly and burn so much fuel. Oh well -- that was a long time ago.
great vid, thanks for posting.
I'm not afraid of dust, but the operator on that "no-cab" 275b- Whoa !!!
I'll bet he died young from eating all that shit...
His ear died from hearing all that shit.
underpowered job killer. look at this great machine oh by the way 8 out of 10 of you are fired.
I know this is supposed to be in a test bed R&D scenario for the first 675 ,but come on !!?? . My family has been in the coal .mining I industry for 60 years , and I cut my teeth running a Caterpillar 992C .
Putting a loader like this . in a quary ,to carry shot rock ,like 6or 700 hundred feet, on an incline , rather than using it to load rock trucks ,is truly ridiculous. For some reason Michigan ," during this time period, " kissed Falcons ass. I remember hearing about the 675s working in Breathit County , at a Falcon strip job ,when I was just a kid .I remember talking to a guy who operated one of them for Falcon , and he said that they were actually a good loader ,but Falcon put them in half ass shot rock ,for a pastime. That they would never put a dozer pushing over for them ,and expected them to virtually pull out unshot slate and sandstone . I think some.big wheel at Michigan and some fat cat with Falcon ,had some kinda ,"SWEET DEAL ," Agreement . How on earth a company could stay in business as long as Falcon ,with managment doing crap like carrying material that far with a loader ,rather than using rock trucks ,is beyond me. They must have locked into one of those $45 or $50 a ton ,for crappy 12,000 BTU coal contracts . That was for several years
Otherwise this kind of ergonomics ,concerning the movement of material ,would have broken even the largest of corporations. Ahh it's strange business sometimes. Lol
Cool video, especially neat for me cause I snowplow the old Clarke factory with a CAT 980G. It's neat to see the first big machines
It's amazing how far tires have come just look at the way those sidewalls flex when crowding into the bank.
I remember the school bus dropping my brother and I off at the end of the road were we would meet my dad who ran one if these loading coal. We would sit in the cab until five o'clock when he got off work. Mom worked in a diner and we loved riding in the loader. The 80s were great!
Yes the 80,s were awesome I was a teenager spent over a year living in California working for relatives pool company Came home to Connecticut at 18 went to work at the mushroom farm for 3 years Then going to school for my tractor trailer license. Been driving truck Sense 94 Now I'm an old man
The damn thing still seems to struggle a lot with crowding the bucket too, I would rather stick with the more dependable 475's than the 675
Kinda thought the same thing. The 475 had no problem getting a good bucket load and seemed to move it better. 675 doesn’t seem like they got the proportions quite ideally.
@generationll You are 100% right about those tires though, no tire made at the time was big enough. Of course, that's still the limiting factor today as the tire size limits the size of today's Letourneau L2350's. Still looking at this 675B move though, it just looks weird on those tires, it bounces all over the place!
Hell yea! I ran a 575a for 3 years and she was a beast but no screamin demon! she was Cummins powered! good Ole girl! but IL take a CAT! 988 any day!
Really cool old machine. I wonder if any of them still exist, or have they all been scrapped out?
Those Detroit Diesels would soon be replaced by a pair of Cummins VTA-1710-C635 diesels because the DDs were not well suited for life in a loader tthe size of a 675.I like hearing those Detroit Diesels
way before the 994
Sweet videos!
Nice video. Been up and down I-24 a few times
awesome historical vid indeed
What strikes me is how good those operators were. Those old machines were beasts. I run equipment, today's iron is cushy by comparison.
I would like to hear that beast running full tilt up the grade in person, twin 16v71 detroits holy shit
its actually insane how big these machines were for their day.
Remember back then, there were no 'mega' haulers like now. If anything a 12V-149 might have been better but too much for the torque converter and tranny. It was one of the biggest loaders at that time with hydraulics. It took a while for R.G. Le- Tourneau's engineers to convince him that hydraulics were better than the electric motors and rack & pinion for the large loaders the company made.
Cutting Edge at the time !!!,
Lmao
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mechanical loader is not for transportation , . It is done by truck , and during loading it is not advisable to return the bucket just to pick up the material the operator speeds the equipment forward and at the same time pushes the machine in the opposite direction with the hydraulic system and the equipment and created to move a maximum of 4 to 5 meters during loading nescessario larger instructions for real performance .
super
Efficiency notwithstanding that grade is hard on brakes.
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This 675 needs a larger bucket and wider tires w/ reinforced roll equip....I have run these 4 years.. and not utilizing the full power and integrity of this machine is a waste...might as well go back to two smaller loaders...???
Where did/do you run these? There aren't more than a few still operating in the world. I think only a few dozen were made before production stopped. There just wasn't enough demand, some say they were before their time.
I would have my trucks running to up the production
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Why not a 675 & trucks ? The load on the road is where the production is, or the loader loading not tramming, would make more sense. Truckers if they spread themselves out & not wolf pack the loading tool & dump site is efficient
What a beast. Two V16 drinking fuel big time
How many of these 675s are left?
i agree. nuthin like a mack. =)
Super liner R model Drove quite a few over the years up here in north east
Nice write
I don't understand. A loader is supposed to load. It's not a dumptruck to. Fun to watch but it doesn't make sense.
yessir they are. M30s
the loader at 2:30 doesnt look that big.......until you look at the driver and compair
entertaining
Only thing bad about the Clark's... When you operate them like a Cat (forward to reverse quick/still moving in the opposite direction) they like to blow the trans out of the bottom of the machine.
That's what BRAKES were invented to prevent !!!!
Joseph Rivett
Since when did the brakes ever work on a piece of equipment like this? If it can't handle the heat then GTFO
robby844 Serious ?
Joseph Rivett
Uh... Yeah. That's the first thing they tell you when you become and operator. Treat every piece of equipment as if it has no brakes. Never operated a Clark that had brakes. Even from new.
+robby844 I can tell that you never been on a loader, or anything other than a 10-speed bicycle and a keyboard. I operated machinery all my life, so GTFO.
I think Terex and Clark were competing to build the ugliest loader. Lol
176 or 316 tonn?
If it ain’t loading it’s wasting fuel
What happened to 4 truck drivers?
No way it’s cheaper to run that loader up down that haul road over trucks I load shot rock with 992 cat 777 haul trucks my boss don’t want my loader moving no future that I have to
Called back up and take aloud
i get high off m30s
Big fuckin deal
Way way under powered, A Cat 998 will carry it and its load up that hill faster than it can push itself.
998? When did they make those?
been making them since the 60's until now. Look up Cat 988H
You stated 998.
oh I did, typo....988
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha a Cat 988 is tiny compared to a 675 Mich