Caterpillar Inc. employees marked a major milestone, commemorating the production of 75,000 wheel tractor-scrapers at the Decatur, Ill., facility. The historic machine, an open-bowl, twin-engine 627K, ...

Caterpillar has introduced the new Cat 657 Wheel Tractor-Scraper (WTS), which features a twin-power design to boost cycle times and elevate productivity and operating efficiency to deliver low-cost ...

The H Series wheel tractor-scrapers include the 621H single-engine, open bowl machine, the 623H with elevating scraper and a single engine and the open-bowl 627H with twin engines and all-wheel drive.

The new 9R/9RT Series of scraper tractors from Deere includes three track models (designated with "RT") and three wheeled models (designated with an "R"), ranging from 460 to 560 horsepower. Deere's ...

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As developers seek methods for reducing the impacts of their projects on the natural environment, the contractors who work for them are doing the same thing. In Mount Vernon, Wash., contractor Plats ...

The Miami Trailer-Scraper Co. offered scrapers that were rear dumping. Hoisting was performed either through the drive wheels or, with a special attachment for the tractor, by means of powered winch.

Caterpillar ® has added four new towed-scraper models to its product line. The new towed-scraper models-TS180 and TS220, with two rear wheels, and TS185 and TS225, with four rear wheels-feature an ...

No tractor is less mollycoddled than the one hooked to a muckscraper. Slathered in slurry from dawn ‘til dusk and shunting back and forth with monotonous regularity, these machines have a notoriously ...