One the guys I worked with at Catom found this old Terex dozer while snowmobling last winter in the UP of Wisconsin. He went back this spring and took some pics of it. Does anyone know anything about it?

Its big and green and makes way too much noise. Kinda like my ex-girlfriend

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Are you an enviromentist, or do you work for a living?

I am not sure that we have the model number right as it looks more like and 80 than an 82 on the lead numbers of the plate. It is an old Euclid dozer from the GM era of Euclid ownership. These used Detroit diesels and yes screamed and often leaked oil. This machine is prior to GM's dividing Euclid into Euclid and Terex and selling Euclid due to anti-trust issues. Hence a bit later you will see the same machine in the same color built by Terex.

Both halfs have since wound through various ownerships and bankruptcies to get to todays Hitachi-Euclid pairing and today's Terex but the dozers pretty well died after the IBH (?) of Germany era on the Terex side. The Euclid side stayed more with the off-road truck business. Hard to believe that the legal issue was control by GM of the truck markets.

Those old green beasts are one of the few machines with the radiator in the rear.

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The dual engine theme in that era of Euclids (both dozers and trucks) always was an interesting solution to up the power output.

Thanks for help guys on getting me some info on the old Terex. I will pass it along.
Thanks again ,Tom

I am going to stand corrected as yes this is the Terex era. Thank you. That places it in the 1968 to 1981 window or the 1983 to 1986 window.

General Motors due to concentration of its ownership of the truck markets was forced to exit the heavy off-road truck markets in 1968. That was the Euclid sale and the remainder being named Terex. In 1981 it sold Terex except for the Scotland operation to IBH. IBH went bankrupt in 1983 when thru I believe union pressure and secured debt it received Terex out of the IBM Bankruptcy. In 1986 it sold Terex to Northwest (of crane fame). Northwest which was within months of bankruptcy itself in 1983 was purchased by Randolph W. Lentz. Lentz quickly made his purchased price back by ceasing production and building only parts. In 1984 her acquired Terex (Scotland). When he through Northwest acquired the GM piece, he had put it all back together and had Terex assume the lead name position and made Northwest the subsidiary.

For the crane folks, in March 1985, Northwest acquired the Bucyrus Erie construction products operations which had ceased manufacturing in 1983. He revived the Dynahoe operations of BCP but otherwise again kept the parts operations.

In 1988 the Koering (and Lorain) business was acquired as well.

This was a highly leveraged accumulation of the remants of our once proud construction equipment manufacturing sector.

Thanks for the help guys. I wasn't sure how wide the tracks were didn't know if you would put on a beam or if it would fit on a 8'6" or 9' wide trailer with outrigger boards.