you were in my neck of the woods. the eimco dozer is at conklin i believe and it looks like you found the greenville ready mix link belt.

Quite frankly, this has to be the most interresting set of pictures i've seen on this forum so far......!!!
Link-Belt 290, either you have an opportunity to drive an incredible amount of miles per a week, either you live on an area where nobody ever scrap anything.....Whatever that is, you have very interresting pictures of interresting machines!!
I hope that whoever owns the Northwest 100DH is aware that their old machine is probably the last surviver of only half a dozen of machines ever built and that they will act accordingly(preserve the machine that is!!)

Theire are a lot of machines that i would put on my "scale model to built" list if i could get close enough to take measurements and pictures, including the LS4800, both Northwest hydraulic excavators, the H-W C14,..........
Many thanks for sharing these and please, bring more!!!!!
Regards.
Max.

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Cat 245.....Now and Forever

I am looking for industrial auction brochures from Ritchie Bros, Miller & Miller, Forke Bros, First Team Auction, Max Rouse, etc from the 70's, 80's and 90's.I am a collector and heavy equipment enthusiast and these pamphlets are loaded with nice pictures of cleaned and freshly painted equipment.Thet don't have much value once the sale is over but they are a great help to me in preserving the memory of machines that are no longer being built.Please, help my hobby by looking in your old storage boxes and file folders for these old auction sale brochures.Your help is much appreciated.

Thank you, that really means a lot. A lot of this stuff I find either through google maps or word of mouth. Trust me there is a lot of old stuff near everybody you just have to know what to look for. The best places to look are yards, farms, abandoned facilities of any kind (this 40H and Hy-Hoe were sitting in a abandoned factory complex) or old pits. Once I have a suffiecent list a group of friends and I every other weekend hop in the car and drive around photographing this stuff. Its a lot of fun and its always nice to see this old stuff. Every machine thus far in this thread is either in Rhode Island, Conneticut, Massachusets, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey or New York. Will be slowing branching out across the country hopefully soon. The 100DH is safe, the owners have told me it is the last one left. This machine is the same one in many of the promotional literature, it is the only one with the cab riser and then later in life it was painted yellow. The current owners bought it for use in their gravel pit and when that closed they decided to keep it. If you ever want measurements or detailed photos I would be happy to send them. I was acctually back up at the 55DH and Hein Warner yesterday.

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Nothing runs like a deere with a cat on its back but the link belt ate both of them

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Nothing runs like a deere with a cat on its back but the link belt ate both of them

Link-Belt had the LS4800 and LS5400 in their product line from 1977 or so until 1984.Both machines are just about identical, the 5400 being less than a ton heavier than the 4800.Both machines were powered by a GM 6-71.
Another very rare Link-Belt machine is the LS6400 wich was a direct competitor to the Cat 245.
Once agauin, many thanks, John for posting pictures of those very interresting machines.
Best regards.
Max.

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Cat 245.....Now and Forever

I am looking for industrial auction brochures from Ritchie Bros, Miller & Miller, Forke Bros, First Team Auction, Max Rouse, etc from the 70's, 80's and 90's.I am a collector and heavy equipment enthusiast and these pamphlets are loaded with nice pictures of cleaned and freshly painted equipment.Thet don't have much value once the sale is over but they are a great help to me in preserving the memory of machines that are no longer being built.Please, help my hobby by looking in your old storage boxes and file folders for these old auction sale brochures.Your help is much appreciated.

linkbelt290rb,

Dude ! You need to publish a photo book ! You have an amazing stash of classic construction equipment photographs. The book would make a great coffee table/conversation piece.

Thank you! Means a lot! Love the older equipment and want to document as much as I can before a lot of it is gone.

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Nothing runs like a deere with a cat on its back but the link belt ate both of them

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Nothing runs like a deere with a cat on its back but the link belt ate both of them

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Nothing runs like a deere with a cat on its back but the link belt ate both of them

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Nothing runs like a deere with a cat on its back but the link belt ate both of them