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Heyseed · Apr 16, 2016

Saw this old guy along route 29 near Amherst. Looks like it would be tricky to run, and hard on the ears. Not a whole lot of safety shields or guards.

Heyseed · Apr 16, 2016

view of the operator station, watch yer toes.

Bob Bancroft · Apr 16, 2016

They used to run a few around here. I don't know why, because they weren't friendly with the rocks. There was a little house on the tail end where a guy would ride along and lay the tile. What a job! Undo the pallet of tile. Load them on a wagon by hand, then lay them along where the guy laying them could reach them.

ditchwitch · Apr 16, 2016

That Old Cleveland is a ditch digging machine. I use to lay pipe while that thing was just bellering cutting ditch. You could shift your dirt to either side of the machine and make a pretty spoil pile of just good ol red clay

Grampy · Apr 16, 2016

Used to work on some of those. We had two with 53 series Detroit's, add the sound of those screamin' Jimmys and you couldn't hear anything else !! Those old wrecks could make a lot of ditch.

Doug Cotton · Apr 16, 2016

We're actually going to bury 3000' of 8" irrigation pipe with a Cleveland trencher just about like that next Saturday. Works great.

SweetFeet · Apr 16, 2016

Heyseed,

Great pics. What a beast.

While the neighbor was getting his field tiled in the 70's, my nephew and I went over and played in the trenches made by a machine like that... until my dad found us and explained that we could be buried if the walls caved in. (Just seemed like great fun to us - didn't realize the danger.)

Steamboat · Apr 17, 2016

Could someone explain to me why a machine that extremely heavy would not bog down in a field wet enough to be tiled??

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