Here are some pictures of a recent move sent to me by my friend from Michigan, hopefully he joins in with more details!

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That looks like Ballors lowboy if I'm not mistaken it could also be Messians though too.

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Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

i was thinking that was Utica equipment haulin that scraper but i could b wrong as for the scraper i got no idea who owns or owned that... never seen a 57 in michigan (well besides Anglin)

That would look far better on a Drake float.

One of the pictures was taken at Mich. Cat macomb yard on 23 mile road, Utica. Edison has a few of these that I know of. Holloway had a bunch of the 57's, Anglin tried to use theirs in Canton, MI. but were to heavy so they used the 31's. That is Utica Equipment/ Messina's lowboy. I was at a auction in Novi when Dan Holloway bought 2 657's for $15,000, he bought them for the tires, no one else knew what to do with them. digger

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The only job where you start at the top is digging a hole.

Those 657's that Anglin had were sold to a large Excavating/Paving/Materials Producer in Las Vegas, Nevada and the guy that bought them was the former V.P. of Equipment for Angelo Iafrate Const. Co. He had no business buying those scrapers. My buddy Orlando ran into one of the Anglin boys at an Auction and he knew Orlando when he was running the garage at Crooks rd. when he worked for Iafrate. He told Orlando the 2 scrapers that they bought sat at the Airport for over a year and they haven't even moved since the job was done. Everytime they ran the 657's they always broke down. The day that Jim Patterson came into town to see the scrapers, Anglin fired them up for him to inspect, they tested them in the dirt and they ran without breaking down for a few hours. He bought them on-site that day and paid way more than what they were worth if the idiot knew that they sat for more than a year and were broke down most of the time. I believe he paid almost $400,000.00 a piece for each machine (including transportation costs). When they brought the scrapers back to Las Vegas, the first day on the job, both machines lost the transmissions. They rebuilt the trans in both machines and then, one by one, they fell apart. Patterson got fired from Iafrate for making some of the same bone headed moves that he did in Las Vegas. I understand that he was canned from the contractor (I believe the firm is Las Vegas Paving, not sure) in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. This guy claimed he was an equipment expert and had experience in Large Fleet Maintenance, but to tell you the truth, this guy didn't know anything about equipment and he could not be trusted. Believe me, Orlando and I could write a book about some of things that Patterson did..

By the way, the pic that Eric posted is a Cat 657E coal bowl scraper that is owned by Detroit Edison. That particular 657E is used up at Detroit Edison's St. Clair plant (I believe that it might be the Belle River Power Station) and is used to move the coal stockpile that is brought in by boat. You should see that facility...very large power plant...my uncle and a few of my other relatives were employed there by Bechtel Corporation in the late 70's and early 80's when the plant was being built. The machine was moved by Utica Equipment (i.e. Messina's trucking outfit for moving Heavy Equipment) with a specialized Talbert 120 ton loboy trailer. Utica/Messina is one of the very few Heavy Haulers in Michigan who own such a specialized trailer and they are very selective on who they will move equipment for and what machines they will move. Utica moves alot of equipment for the Michigan Cat Macomb branch in Macomb Twp., MI, that is probably where the scraper is being brought in for repairs.

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