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J.Wondergem

J.Wondergem

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From the Oliver archives at the Floyd County Museum in Charles City, IA. Self-Propelled Speedhaul scraper powered by an Oliver Super 99 G.M diesel engine. 1955-1957, manufactured at the South Bend. IND plant.



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   Ten years ago when the HPOCA Summer show was in Madison, SD someone brought a restored scraper with a 990 power unit like the one pictured.   Don't know what brand it was, too long ago.
 
I owned the front end of one of those for awhile back in the 90's supposed to have come from a guy in SC that bought two from Oliver.The unit I had didn't have a motor in it I was going to make a tractor out of it but ended up trading it off.
 
These machines where designed and built buy Gaines W. Harrison & Sons of Columbia, South Carolina. Harrison started out as a Case dealer and began making modifications and adding loaders and other equipment in the early 1950's. Such as the Harrison Loader Crain. Case cut off Harrison's supply of tractors and filled suit against him in federal court. So Harrison turned to Oliver who embraced his ideas and bought his patients. The scrappers where probably designed, with the brick plants around Columbia in mind, to scrape up river bottom silt and other material, as they own several of these scrapers. He also took 1650 4wd tractors turn them around backwards and built on them a skid stir type boom and curved forks. These were capable of loading whole pine trees on log trailers. Several years ago a friend went into Gains W. Harrison & Sons and ask about their Oliver dealership, and they gave him a hand full of brochures on Oliver-Harrison equipment.
 
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