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Here are some Airport Snow Removal Equipment I have built over the years.    988 snowplow 1 by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  560 snowplow by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  cat 12g snowplow by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  cat 980 snow plow by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  Cat9883 by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  Cat988Broom by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>
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Ken: I love the Dresser and the CAT 988. Great work. How do you store your models? You seem to have so many. Craig
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Quinella wrote:Ken: I love the Dresser and the CAT 988. Great work. How do you store your models? You seem to have so many. Craig A lot of them I have sold. I keep them in glass cabinets. 
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Very nice looking snow fleet you built!
Someone posted some pics on FB a few days ago of 988K’s with snow boxes on them. My thought was holy cow, how much snow would you need to justify a 988K to plow with?!
Are you an enviromentist, or do you work for a living?
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Ken again nice looking snow equipment. The 988 is truly a snow machine because of its age.
Steve
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JTL wrote:Very nice looking snow fleet you built!
Someone posted some pics on FB a few days ago of 988K’s with snow boxes on them. My thought was holy cow, how much snow would you need to justify a 988K to plow with?! Thank you. It would have to be at an airport with a Big blade. When I made the 1st 988 and Dresser 560, there weren't a lot of medium size loaders out yet.
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Exkvate3140 wrote:Ken again nice looking snow equipment. The 988 is truly a snow machine because of its age.
Steve Thanks Steve.
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Ken,
about every time I see your 988 snow plow special, I think about my CCM log loader and am tempted to do a similar custom. It looks so great. Is this a Chicago based machine?
Best regards,
Max
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Mr. Scholz wrote:Ken,
about every time I see your 988 snow plow special, I think about my CCM log loader and am tempted to do a similar custom. It looks so great. Is this a Chicago based machine?
Best regards,
Max The Airport owned a lot and the rest were hired contractors. A lot were based off the Cat 834, 988, and Michigan's. They had 30 and 40 foot wide blades. Before I retired,I hauled the New style Oshkosh blowers and Chicago Fire Department Strikers back and forth to the Oshkosh Service Center. I also hauled private contractors into the airports starting around Thanksgiving. They would stay running until spring and used as needed. The operators are all on call Union members. They had fuel and service trucks, mechanics tending them 24 hrs a day.  Ohare 40 ft blade by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  Ct 980 wide blade by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  O'Hare Clark 475 by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/> Here is a recent Catom Trucking Co. KW hauling a Striker. 68409_490084984375516_1865055649_n by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/> Here is a Catom model I did a run of loaded with a Striker (trailer has a deck extension) and Snow Blower. IMG_E1629 by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>  Oshkosh Blower by Ken Wheeler, on Flickr"/>
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Ken great real equipment pictures of the airport snow removal fleet. I liked those Michigan loaders as much as the Cat’s, we used all Cat loaders in our company except for one used Michigan 125B we used strictly as a snow thrower.
Ken it looks like you had a great job in the trucking industry from the pictures you post.
Steve
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I love your Chicago-themed work. I have the O'Hare Striker, and I think there were only a handful of them made. Thanks for sharing!
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JohnGalt wrote:I love your Chicago-themed work. I have the O'Hare Striker, and I think there were only a handful of them made. Thanks for sharing! Thanks John. After the Strikers were released, Chicago said "no"to the deal. The ones that were left were reissued for Indianapolis, IN I believe.
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Thanks JTL and Steve.
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