I work in Peoria at that plant, when I hired in it was WABCO, then Dresser, then Komatsu Dresser and finally Komatsu. When I retired in 2010 they still had 2 Tournapull yard cranes a 50 an 40 ton
The old screamer would probably sputter to life again but I sure would hope I didn't draw the short straw on it.Engine looks like a 6-110. At least this one had a steering wheel. The others were electric everything. Had a bar on the dash with a row of those double throw switches that controlled the whole thing. I've been on them but never ran one, thank God! The guys that I knew that did operate them said they were a nightmare at best when they got some age on them. Relays would stick or not kick in. Had a straight drive with a flywheel generator so if you let the r.p.m. drop you had no voltage and no nothing. Even the scraper down was cable from a gear driven winch with a brake that locked when the power was off so even if you needed to stop in a hurry it would just go down slowly at best. No brakes on any pan I ever saw but in later years they put a quick drop on the pan. I'm starting to shake just thinking about it. Good video, Pal.
My uncle had a tournapull scraper with a Hancock pan, the steering motors were always going out, or the relay switches would quit. He would keep running and moving dirt with it. Always liked to hear the Jimmy run. It did have air brakes and air clutch for gear shifting.
@@chuckwilson6281 The one I looked at had a 4-71 and a straight drive and electric everything. With all the horror stories I heard about them I was even scared to even look it over. I don't think you could even drop the pan to get stopped in an emergency. Have to ease it down with one of those blasted winches. I might run ot but #2 notch would be as fast as I ever went so's I could bail out right before the big crash came to pass. And those HUGE things that RG made. Lots more of the same but at least some had dozer steering. I might've run a pan with brakes but I always kept hold of that 1st lever. That was my emergency brake. Your Uncle was TOUGH is all I can say!
All of these were originally made for the american army engineers. They were built mainly as a recovery machine during the Vietnam war. Yes it's a 6-110, it had to have the same motor as most of the other machinery in case it was destroyed.
If ya make it down here to the states, Buse Timber has a couple of Letoruneau log stackers that are still earning their keep, also one of the last oversize mills in the states.
Some of these machines I never saw before but they're cool to look at even though they're abandoned I never knew what they would use in logging but most of the time I would see abandoned bulldozers or forklifts or zamboni's or even cars & trucks & buses
I disagree on the 6110 I had a b pull it had a 6110 35-ton can I still have parts for it even though it's long gone the steering on mine was a number two box that was for steering had number four box for the cable can't forward and the lifting of the tub I still have two rectifiers and contacts and breakers why do I have them I don't know but the contacts are pure silver I still have them I have a lot of them that machine didn't look that bad as shape it probably starting to run a little bit of work on the generator it probably everything would work
Some of the old LeTourneau people called the Peoria plant the LeTourneau Restinghouse. When RG sold his earthmoving business to Westinghouse there was a non-compete clause so RG turned to other machines until the clause expired.
I've watched a lot of your videos and I still cannot get my head around why these things are abandoned in the first place...there seems to be a fair amount of abandoned kit lying about in Canada. I am from the UK and live in an area of dense woodland with logging activities and have never seen anything except old hydraulic fluid containers left behind. I am just interested in why an operator would just leave it and not even bother to recover it for scrap or parts/rebuild.
Its out of the ground now,You'll most likely see these machines on this location on 'Highway through Hell' this Season,with Al Quiring dragging them out.
It got pulled out few months back,you will see it on 'Highway Through Hell'TV show this season,Al Quiring pulled it out along with a bunch of other equipment surrounding it.
It looked like the machines were moth balled, for short term storage. short term got extended to forever !!!!!! I guess I don't understand why the equipment wasn't taken off the hill instead of being left behind ??????. guess I place a higher value to heavy equipment than some. left to turn into a stain on the forest floor.
I swear to God Todd, you'll go where no other man has ever gone before to get a video clip! It's a good thing you're 40 years younger than William Shatner or he would have been out of a job.(;>)!
Some of these machines I never saw before but they're cool to look at even though they're abandoned I never knew what they would use in logging but most of the time I would see abandoned bulldozers or forklifts or zamboni's or even cars & trucks & buses
RG LeTourneau designed and built a lot of one-off machines. His biggest was the LT-360 scraper. It loaded 360 tons of earth in three scraper pans. The machine was powered by 6 V16s and 2 V12s all turning generators to power electric motors in every wheel.
I work in Peoria at that plant, when I hired in it was WABCO, then Dresser, then Komatsu Dresser and finally Komatsu. When I retired in 2010 they still had 2 Tournapull yard cranes a 50 an 40 ton
The old screamer would probably sputter to life again but I sure would hope I didn't draw the short straw on it.Engine looks like a 6-110. At least this one had a steering wheel. The others were electric everything. Had a bar on the dash with a row of those double throw switches that controlled the whole thing. I've been on them but never ran one, thank God! The guys that I knew that did operate them said they were a nightmare at best when they got some age on them. Relays would stick or not kick in. Had a straight drive with a flywheel generator so if you let the r.p.m. drop you had no voltage and no nothing. Even the scraper down was cable from a gear driven winch with a brake that locked when the power was off so even if you needed to stop in a hurry it would just go down slowly at best. No brakes on any pan I ever saw but in later years they put a quick drop on the pan. I'm starting to shake just thinking about it. Good video, Pal.
never had any of them problems what are you bullshitting about
My uncle had a tournapull scraper with a Hancock pan, the steering motors were always going out, or the relay switches would quit. He would keep running and moving dirt with it. Always liked to hear the Jimmy run. It did have air brakes and air clutch for gear shifting.
@@chuckwilson6281 The one I looked at had a 4-71 and a straight drive and electric everything. With all the horror stories I heard about them I was even scared to even look it over. I don't think you could even drop the pan to get stopped in an emergency. Have to ease it down with one of those blasted winches. I might run ot but #2 notch would be as fast as I ever went so's I could bail out right before the big crash came to pass. And those HUGE things that RG made. Lots more of the same but at least some had dozer steering. I might've run a pan with brakes but I always kept hold of that 1st lever. That was my emergency brake. Your Uncle was TOUGH is all I can say!
These old machines you find are just cool
All of these were originally made for the american army engineers. They were built mainly as a recovery machine during the Vietnam war. Yes it's a 6-110, it had to have the same motor as most of the other machinery in case it was destroyed.
Awesome videos!!!...brings back great memories of living and logging on the north end of Vancouver Island.....Holberg and Port McNeill BC
I had a Wabco 333F with a twin turbo 12V71. It moved a lot of dirt for us
That's half the fun!! And a great reason to wear long pants....
If ya make it down here to the states, Buse Timber has a couple of Letoruneau log stackers that are still earning their keep, also one of the last oversize mills in the states.
Some of these machines I never saw before but they're cool to look at even though they're abandoned I never knew what they would use in logging but most of the time I would see abandoned bulldozers or forklifts or zamboni's or even cars & trucks & buses
It looks every bit of the front end of an old scraper, unreal what the loggers of that era could do to repurpose them into something useful
Awesome find
@cullenequipment I believe you're thinking of the Tournadozer. The Tournapull was used all over the place, and some were actually sold as skidders.
Clint Tauber Ya
they built some wild machines...
GM 6-110 power, thats an odd-duck good find!
I disagree on the 6110 I had a b pull it had a 6110 35-ton can I still have parts for it even though it's long gone the steering on mine was a number two box that was for steering had number four box for the cable can't forward and the lifting of the tub I still have two rectifiers and contacts and breakers why do I have them I don't know but the contacts are pure silver I still have them I have a lot of them that machine didn't look that bad as shape it probably starting to run a little bit of work on the generator it probably everything would work
Sweet
Cheers
Martin
Letournoue was at the top of his game later it became the Wabco company ,Westinghouse air brake company
Some of the old LeTourneau people called the Peoria plant the LeTourneau Restinghouse. When RG sold his earthmoving business to Westinghouse there was a non-compete clause so RG turned to other machines until the clause expired.
Could you imagine a Canadian forest industry in 2020 that would call for people to create such machines?
Le tourneau tournapull was produced in Brazil to.
This just makes me sad to see them just left there and no one wants them any more I sure would
Anybody who would climb thru all those brambles to get a vid deserve a "Like"
I've watched a lot of your videos and I still cannot get my head around why these things are abandoned in the first place...there seems to be a fair amount of abandoned kit lying about in Canada. I am from the UK and live in an area of dense woodland with logging activities and have never seen anything except old hydraulic fluid containers left behind. I am just interested in why an operator would just leave it and not even bother to recover it for scrap or parts/rebuild.
Hundreds of different circumstances and reasons I"m sure.Makes for great youtube mystery videos though.thanks for watching them!!
The best
Just curious where the hell do you find all this?
Super C
I must say it's a shame to see all that logging equipment rusting away into the ground.
Its out of the ground now,You'll most likely see these machines on this location on 'Highway through Hell' this Season,with Al Quiring dragging them out.
Such a shame that people vandalise anything that's not being used daily .
It's OK to look and film it's the bust things and take pieces .
Save the LeTourneau!
It got pulled out few months back,you will see it on 'Highway Through Hell'TV show this season,Al Quiring pulled it out along with a bunch of other equipment surrounding it.
It looked like the machines were moth balled, for short term storage. short term got extended to forever !!!!!!
I guess I don't understand why the equipment wasn't taken off the hill instead of being left behind ??????.
guess I place a higher value to heavy equipment than some. left to turn into a stain on the forest floor.
costs more to move em than what theyre worth to some
I swear to God Todd, you'll go where no other man has ever gone before to get a video clip! It's a good thing you're 40 years younger than William Shatner or he would have been out of a job.(;>)!
Obviously not made for rough terrain like mountain logging, just flat plains.
I would say it is a 6-71 Detiort diesel
The Tournapulls were mostly made with 4-71s
Some of these machines I never saw before but they're cool to look at even though they're abandoned I never knew what they would use in logging but most of the time I would see abandoned bulldozers or forklifts or zamboni's or even cars & trucks & buses
RG LeTourneau designed and built a lot of one-off machines. His biggest was the LT-360 scraper. It loaded 360 tons of earth in three scraper pans. The machine was powered by 6 V16s and 2 V12s all turning generators to power electric motors in every wheel.