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kcm.MN

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It looks like a Michigan wheeled shovel. Shovel because of the orientation of the bucket. I?ve worked around a couple wheeled hoes through the years. They are not very common. The extending tractor backhoe pretty much squashed the advanced a wheeled hoe had.
 
It looks like it?s designed to dig out from underneath itself. ???? I?m going to guess that not many of these went rushing out of the factory.
 
Digs out of the face of a mine, and yes the wheels raised all the way up and it sat on the pads.
That thing is a lot larger that you realize. A sister company to Hanamog must have designed it
because I saw it in Germany mid to late 60s . Was really ahead of its time back then hydraulics
were just beginning to come on.
 
Assuming the wheels raise higher than the tops of the pad support struts to have swing (which is not obvious), the machine
must be skid steer. In that regard, it looks just plane awkward (but hefty). Jim
 
Looks like its about to eat itself. Kind of like the Essex Tri-Directional disappearing up its own tailpipe.
 
Been 55 years or more but best I remember the wheels were actually on the house above the swing platform. Very crude thing but I cannot stress how big it was back in its time.
 
I suspect the double lines are so all the hoses on the machine can be the same size while still supplying the necessary volume of oil to the larger cylinders = simpler field repairs. Bucket cylinder has only one pair of hoses.
 

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