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, ...

"Ten years ago, scrapers probably were the most absent of technology of any machine that we had,” notes John Gerhold, product application specialist, Cat wheel tractor-scrapers. The launch of the Cat ...

The new Cat ® 620 K Series Wheel Tractor-Scrapers—621K, 623K, and 627K—refine the design of their H Series predecessors, which introduced industry leading features such as Sequence Assist and Load ...

The new Cat 621H, 623H and 627H wheel tractor-scrapers feature a more powerful engine in the tractor, and a more powerful engine in the scraper of the 627H. The Cat C13 engine in the tractor produces ...

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 ...

Featuring the field-proven, twin-power design to boost cycle times, the new Cat® 657 Wheel Tractor-Scraper (WTS) elevates productivity and operating efficiency to deliver low-cost earthmoving. A 7% ...

MOLINE, Ill. (Nov 30, 2007) – John Deere introduces a new line of large, high-horsepower tractors – the 9030 Series Scraper Tractors. These three models of tractors, ranging from 425 to 530 hp, are ...

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.

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 ...

These tractors aren’t necessarily basic, though, with four-wheel drive, cabs and air conditioning often on the options list. Stepping up the budget brings in candidates from the Japanese makers, such ...