APSCO SHOULDER STONE or road widener machine

armand tatro · Oct 12, 2014

I came across an old road widener machine That was once owned by the Lehigh Paving Co. from Rantoul, Il. The Id. tag says APSCO(All Purpose Spreader Co.).Model 80(sure about the 8; not sure about the 0); S. N. 137. Anybody have any information about this company and their products? Would like to see an original picture of this model. I have "now" pictures of this machine but it has been used hard and put away wet a time or two! I dumped shoulder stone into this machine after new blacktop was layed on roads a time or 5 in the early 1980's and than it disappeared until a couple years ago. I saw it parked in a yard this sat. and took some pictures of it. It appears to have used in the last mouth or so judging by the asphalt on the conveyor belt so it is not dead yet. I will try to post pictures in a day or two. Thank you for any help anybody can provide. Armand

PJH · Oct 12, 2014

I searched for APSCO Spreader and found a picture, but it's clearly a paver and not a road widener. The APSCO Spreaders that we used were short wheelbase with a Ford power unit sitting crossways on it. They used two truck rearends stacked one above the other for a drive train. I can't remember the configuration, but it involved HUGE roller chains and four V-belts on the drive sheave. They had a belt placer that the trucks would dump into instead of a hopper like a paver would have. They were worn out and underpowered, but we didn't know it until they brought out the first Blaw-Knox RW. The Blaw-Knox would push a loaded semi with the truck brakes locked up. Last APSCO I was around would have been about 1970. I'm sorry - I couldn't load the picture - wrong file type, but it wasn't what you were looking for.

APSCO SHOULDER STONE or road widener machine

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