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1954 Euclid S7 scraper. Powered by a 4-71 Detroit Diesel attached to a 5 speed manual Clark transmission. 7 yard capacity. Seen at the HECA national meet in Canandaigua, NY. Please visit www.dailydieseldose.com for more!

Some skyscrapers in the Flatiron District.

 

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Members of East Oakland's "Scraper Bike Crew," a group of young men who have taken a trend in car customization and scaled it down. Photo by Jacob Fenston

Part of Hudson Yards construction project, Manhattan.

Another one from my recent visit to Maldon, to go alongside my mono version. I was setting up to shoot the statue of Brithnoth in silhouette against the rising sun, when a flock of seabirds took off and flew through my field of view. I rattled off a few exposures as they passed and this is the best one. I have been told that it looks like his sword is cutting the sky, hence the title ...

This rig weighs over 102,000 pounds empty.

One 631G arrives for a load while in the background another one works a different section of the project.

30569 - Alexander Volvo of First South Yorkshire is safely round this tight corner of Derbyshire, with a couple of old friends from the same route yesteryear looking over. The MCW Metrobus of SYPTE is pictured just 100 yards (and about 30 years) behind. Whilst the Roe bodied AEC Regent of Sheffield Transport with 72 (as the route was pre-SYPTE) on the blind, pictured in the bus stacking area of Sheffield Central Bus station. Probable date anytime in the 1960's.

This little one yard scraper was built for the war dept. during world war 2 to be dropped by parachutes onto the Islands in the pacific for building runways. Bulit by Letourneau

Dubai's architectural brilliance wouldn't have been possible without the blood, sweat & tears of Indian & Pakistani construction workers.

Motte Farm, Perris, California.

Bow building, downtown Calgary, AB.

Starting a new series, scrapers.

Vintage scraper spotted 12.13.10 in San Francisco.

Bank of America Plaza

Jack Parkinson. 13-18 years section.

Many thanks for Edwin Jones for taking the club to Canary Wharf yesterday. Fatastic trio and evening ordered the right weather!

A famous old machine, on display in my favorite desert town, the “Southern Entrance to Death Valley”, Shoshone California.

 

It seems I’ve always recognized the Fresno scraper. Did I see some of them 85 years ago when I was little? In my mind’s eye I can see a Fresno scraper being pulled by two horses and raising clouds of dust as it graded a dirt road.

 

This is the piece of equipment that created and maintained thousands of miles of old time roads. Modern bulldozer blades still echo the shape of the Fresno Scraper.

  

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