A cool Blast from the past,you dont see around here anymore.Gradall Truck mounted excavator.Here is a neat old history film on them • Gradall-koneet 50&60-l...
Very cool. My dad had a gradall at the coast during that time as well, Lou Doucette. We moved to the Okanagan in '74. I bet my dad knew the guy that owned this machine. My brother is still in the gradall business, started with my dad when he was 19 I think. He owns about 15 gradalls now, mostly 5100's. He keeps a couple of 660's around though, mostly for just moving stuff around the yard. Thanks so much for posting! This meant a lot to me. Reminded me of the old days, running "front end" with my brothers after high school. All the best.
When I first started working in the construction field(1980)there was a contractor who had 2 G660’s who was on a lot of our job sites. He did quite a bit of deep trench excavation work for the company. Another contractor had a Bantam Teleskoop, but his machine was always having problems with bucket swivel (twist o wrist) snapping.
These Gradall's were all over the place when I was a kid in GA in the 80s. Every municipality had one or 2 of them, I spent many hours in the summer watching a Gradall work here or there. Even as a kid, I noticed they never seemed like an ideal machine for whatever job they were doing however I guessed they were the easiest machine to get to the jobsites. I always wondered how stable one of them could have been working, as I never saw any kind of jacks or rollover pads on them.
Wow, this is too cool! I remember these working the ditches back in the ‘70’s and into the 80’s. High school buddy flagged a couple summers on one of these while in college. Lane county Oregon had some, painted orange. Or maybe the state. Probably both. This one looks great, looks like it would go again with a little TLC. I guess it’s obsolete now. Time marches on. Thanks for the memories!
A guy I worked with 22 years ago he was a Gradall contractor bought the G660 he operated brand new when he was in his 20s at that time his machine was 20 plus years old. His machine has gas power in the carrier 3208 Cat in the upper. Ran the G660 till he retired, he was good on the machine cleaned a lot of ditches in the 40 plus years. Travelled all over BC, he was never at home.
Dad had one. I probably put 50 hours on it. Had a Chrysler truck engine. Detroit house engine. In the truck cab you switched the steering to house control and engaged a power takeoff/disengaged the clutch so that a hydraulic motor could back drive the transmission through the PTO-controlled from the house. That’s how you drove it from the operator cab. Parking brake switches were in both cabs. I figured it was built for a lazy operator-didn’t have to climb down to move. 😅. Nice find.
Holy crap!!! Wow! That is beauty! The municipality I grew up in on the island had one up until early 90’s maybe even later 90’s cleaning ditches, it was a private local company that owned it. If only I could run it... Thanks for the watch!
Nice find Skadill. Love the Gradalls and love the original blue and yellow paint. Could spot one a mile away when I was a kid. Alot of these had Chrysler 413 V8s in the front lower.(Very similar to a 440 Chrysler) Keep up the great finds!
Worked at a machine shop that had a w&s turret lathe and that machine was a beast. Would drill 3 inch diameter holes in 2507 super duplex hubs about 5 inches thick all day and not even break. Sweat. Dont make em like they used to thats for sure!
Thank you so much for finding her. The 4 peddles on the floor were for I believe. The Bucket and swing. Just from History that I looked up on Warner & Swasey (Hopto) There is a great book on the company history called (Warner & Swasey construction History) By James H. Grant. The best thing about them is the (1900) American largest Hydraulic Excavator introduced in 1972 100 TON machine 4 yard bucket. It had 2 GM-8v-71 Detroit Diesel (616 HP) digging a depth of 35 feet ground reach of 48 feet. It had (8) motors tractor-type undercarriage. 2 Hydraulic motors at both ends for each Drive crawler assembly. The last one was shipped in 1990. From workers on the trans Alaska pipeline. They used these 1900s.
Grew up seeing the old gradall doing ditch maintenance in Ladner. What a find! Oddly enough there's still a company in Edmonton that runs a fleet of crawler gradalls with a few later model truck mounted units like this.
Ive seen one working in the Finger Lakes region of NY state, pretty sure it was a town highway dept. Also have a few excavator mounted units around New England . Those look cool
great machines, at work we've had gradalls since back in the 50's they ran almost every day . I ran a 660E for years I miss that thing I have a hell of a time with the new one. If you ever get a chance look underneath one of these things they have about the sturdiest frame you"ll ever see. Not supprised at all to see oil jugs in the tool box the old gradalls were like old detroits if the werent leaking oil they didn;t have any Was suprised to see a detroit up front most of the old ones had gassers up front chrysler or ford
My county in Wisconsin still has one and still uses it for doing culverts on roads. That remote steering is so thru can dive it being in the other cab when digging.
Cool find. Only worked on one, a couple times years ago. Little newer....still makes me shiver. Electric over air over electric over hydraulic. Or something like that. Lol. Cheers
I found a g660 a while back and I have a video of it on my channel. I operate gradalls we have two series 2 XL4100's at work. Mostly use them to backfill curb on jobsites and asphalt patching.
I noticed the speedo was in MPH. I never knew Canada used English units. I always thought it was KPH. Very cool! Although we have Kilometers on our speedos, they're just smaller, in case you travel across the border. Thanks for sharing! (i also noticed that old Ford tractor sitting behind it)
10 or so years back a fella bought one of this vintage and bin on penndot ditching jobs. everybody was a laughin at him and his machine. he keeped it running the first year, and made enough to pay it off. now he runs 3 alittle newer gradalls
Its gotta be they are gona save I saw what you ment by how straight it is the further the video went along the thing looks ment like it was never used with the parts in it to fix the ones that may need changing t
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Very cool. My dad had a gradall at the coast during that time as well, Lou Doucette. We moved to the Okanagan in '74. I bet my dad knew the guy that owned this machine.
My brother is still in the gradall business, started with my dad when he was 19 I think. He owns about 15 gradalls now, mostly 5100's. He keeps a couple of 660's around though, mostly for just moving stuff around the yard.
Thanks so much for posting! This meant a lot to me. Reminded me of the old days, running "front end" with my brothers after high school.
All the best.
Man that thing is cherry. A little TLC to the cabs and she’d be right back to work.
They were interesting machines!
Pretty cool really..
No lunch bucket needed, they were all in government work..lol
Thank you Skadill
When I first started working in the construction field(1980)there was a contractor who had 2 G660’s who was on a lot of our job sites. He did quite a bit of deep trench excavation work for the company. Another contractor had a Bantam Teleskoop, but his machine was always having problems with bucket swivel (twist o wrist) snapping.
I worked for a company that had 3 of these, the operators had them down to a science.
These Gradall's were all over the place when I was a kid in GA in the 80s. Every municipality had one or 2 of them, I spent many hours in the summer watching a Gradall work here or there. Even as a kid, I noticed they never seemed like an ideal machine for whatever job they were doing however I guessed they were the easiest machine to get to the jobsites. I always wondered how stable one of them could have been working, as I never saw any kind of jacks or rollover pads on them.
Wow, this is too cool! I remember these working the ditches back in the ‘70’s and into the 80’s. High school buddy flagged a couple summers on one of these while in college. Lane county Oregon had some, painted orange. Or maybe the state. Probably both. This one looks great, looks like it would go again with a little TLC. I guess it’s obsolete now. Time marches on. Thanks for the memories!
Your a gold mine of information, thanks man
A guy I worked with 22 years ago he was a Gradall contractor bought the G660 he operated brand new when he was in his 20s at that time his machine was 20 plus years old. His machine has gas power in the carrier 3208 Cat in the upper. Ran the G660 till he retired, he was good on the machine cleaned a lot of ditches in the 40 plus years. Travelled all over BC, he was never at home.
Dad had one. I probably put 50 hours on it. Had a Chrysler truck engine. Detroit house engine. In the truck cab you switched the steering to house control and engaged a power takeoff/disengaged the clutch so that a hydraulic motor could back drive the transmission through the PTO-controlled from the house. That’s how you drove it from the operator cab. Parking brake switches were in both cabs. I figured it was built for a lazy operator-didn’t have to climb down to move. 😅. Nice find.
It saved having two operators on the job .
Time capsule for sure, W&S made some huge machine tools back in the day. Lathes and etc. for factorys and such. Thanks bud, Will
Holy crap!!! Wow! That is beauty!
The municipality I grew up in on the island had one up until early 90’s maybe even later 90’s cleaning ditches, it was a private local company that owned it.
If only I could run it...
Thanks for the watch!
Nice find Skadill. Love the Gradalls and love the original blue and yellow paint. Could spot one a mile away when I was a kid. Alot of these had Chrysler 413 V8s in the front lower.(Very similar to a 440 Chrysler) Keep up the great finds!
Worked at a machine shop that had a w&s turret lathe and that machine was a beast. Would drill 3 inch diameter holes in 2507 super duplex hubs about 5 inches thick all day and not even break. Sweat. Dont make em like they used to thats for sure!
Thank you so much for finding her. The 4 peddles on the floor were for I believe. The Bucket and swing. Just from History that I looked up on Warner & Swasey (Hopto)
There is a great book on the company history called (Warner & Swasey construction History)
By James H. Grant. The best thing about them is the (1900) American largest Hydraulic Excavator introduced in 1972 100 TON machine
4 yard bucket. It had 2 GM-8v-71 Detroit Diesel
(616 HP) digging a depth of 35 feet ground reach of 48 feet. It had (8) motors tractor-type undercarriage. 2 Hydraulic motors at both ends for each Drive crawler assembly. The last one was shipped in 1990. From workers on the trans Alaska pipeline. They used these 1900s.
Grew up seeing the old gradall doing ditch maintenance in Ladner. What a find! Oddly enough there's still a company in Edmonton that runs a fleet of crawler gradalls with a few later model truck mounted units like this.
This one with the name on it?
@@skadill not sure, probably a similar model. This was in the 90's
Ive seen one working in the Finger Lakes region of NY state, pretty sure it was a town highway dept. Also have a few excavator mounted units around New England . Those look cool
Way too cool, love those Gradalls
great machines, at work we've had gradalls since back in the 50's they ran almost every day . I ran a 660E for years I miss that thing I have a hell of a time with the new one. If you ever get a chance look underneath one of these things they have about the sturdiest frame you"ll ever see. Not supprised at all to see oil jugs in the tool box the old gradalls were like old detroits if the werent leaking oil they didn;t have any Was suprised to see a detroit up front most of the old ones had gassers up front chrysler or ford
Quite the fancy rig. Im making a wild guess...671 up front, 471 up back.
As a kid I loved these machines.....especially when steered from the excavator cab.
My county in Wisconsin still has one and still uses it for doing culverts on roads. That remote steering is so thru can dive it being in the other cab when digging.
Funny saw 1 driving down the street today
It looks nice enough to drive away
Cool find. Only worked on one, a couple times years ago. Little newer....still makes me shiver. Electric over air over electric over hydraulic. Or something like that. Lol. Cheers
I remember seeing several of these as a youth back in Ohio, it's very interesting to see one closer up.
Nice find Skadill 🙂👍 I always thought the truck mount units look pretty tough
I found a g660 a while back and I have a video of it on my channel. I operate gradalls we have two series 2 XL4100's at work. Mostly use them to backfill curb on jobsites and asphalt patching.
I noticed the speedo was in MPH. I never knew Canada used English units. I always thought it was KPH. Very cool! Although we have Kilometers on our speedos, they're just smaller, in case you travel across the border. Thanks for sharing! (i also noticed that old Ford tractor sitting behind it)
We,not agreeingly went 'metric' in the mid and later 70's.
@@skadill Another Trudeau f#@& up from the father.
10 or so years back a fella bought one of this vintage and bin on penndot ditching jobs. everybody was a laughin at him and his machine. he keeped it running the first year, and made enough to pay it off. now he runs 3 alittle newer gradalls
Looks like it'd be ready to go right back to work with a quick powerwash and clean-out.
Great video!
I operated one of these back in 70s, We did not hve remote steering on ours. I took 2 peope to operate it. I think ours was built in middle 60s
There was one of these old gradalls in South Richmond, too bad it's gone now
awesome!!!! the the tool box was like the day it was left
I new a man who had 5 Gradalls and a Warner & Swasey excavator based out of Burnaby B.C. Steward Gradall Service back in the 70s.
Does anyone know what the control lever pattern was (or is) for these GradAlls?
ours had a gas engine for the carrie and a GM 3-53 for upper engine.
So we can restore bro 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hopefully it wont be scrapped.
Flagman, back in the day, narrow equipment narrow operator, the opposite now... ha ha ha.
That's a big one aye way bigger than we see in south Louisiana at least
Cool
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Loooks great heard their awsome on side bank y u see them around bridges .They still sell them it drives from in loader house
Todd, believe it or not there is an outfit in cranbrook still running these doing highway maintenance. he has 4 or 5.
Its gotta be they are gona save I saw what you ment by how straight it is the further the video went along the thing looks ment like it was never used with the parts in it to fix the ones that may need changing t
Ran one many years ago
Override is so you can drive from the back cab
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Wish it was near me I would save it
"Operators were too." Indeed.
Cabs were like the old CCC (Crane Carrier Corp) rigs. Enough room for you but don't try and cuss a cat with the window rolled up.
Any drots out there
Cab was narrow and operators were too opposite these days.!!! 😂🤣😂🤣
Put lunch in other cab
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