10 OLDEST Heavy Machinery In The World

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My Dad was an Operating Engineer for over 50 years and ran almost anything you can think of. In the 1950s he worked on Strategic Air Command bases all over the US. He then worked on underground boring and utility construction. He laid pipelines all over the country and worked on powerplant construction building both fossil fuel and hydroelectric facilities. He ran several of the machines in this video

Fascinating to see the oldest heavy machinery still in action!

Awesome to see old earthmoving gear still going

Fantastic presentation Brings back many old, precious memories and it bonours the pioneers of the construction and farming industry in mechanization in a fitting, powerful manner Thank you kindly…‼️🥂 Much appreciated (The Euclid i saw in South Africa (ZA) last as a kid in the 60’s 😳‼️) (🥂🔥👊❗️) thanx again 🪖 🪖

you could remove the word "oldest" and it would still be a good video... just more accurate

Wow ! I’m operating a 977k up at Plummer’s Great Slave Lake Lodge in the Northwest Territories. It still runs pretty smooth.

Hard to see some of these as antiques since I grew up with them. Guess I'm an antique now too.

My employer is a great one for using old equipment. We have loaders and forklifts on the site that are 40-50 years old or more. They are a pain to maintain sometimes because parts for a 50 year old are often hard to to get. Also we have a relatively large mechanical shop for a small industrial site. This big old equipment is worn out or at end of life as one of our mechanics says, so it is in the shop a lot more than you might expect getting Macgyvered. On the other side of the equation, we need equipment of this caliber, and our industry won't afford millions of dollars for new gear like that. You can buy equipment at auction for less than scrap metal value and put it to work. Of course, when it was new it ran 16 hours a day or more. However, after 25 years or so it just can't hold up to a schedule like that anymore. Alas, if someone can find it a job where it can work 30 minutes, or 2-3 hours/day. It can live and valuable for a long time to come. I like to see it.

That little Oliver would be cool to have. Great video

My Dad had 2 Cat 619 scrapers, cable type. Used them for almost 20 years

Fact is, the HD 41 was under house powered, not a common tractor. we had one brought in on a Job in Sadsop WA, The engine sits backwards, front faces to the rear. We had the engine set to make 600 HP, wiped out the diff: All this long before the High rise diff cat produce.. I was always working on that cat. We later brought in a few komatsu tractors, Nose heavy crawlers, but the operators did adjust. I'm retired now.

Seems a surprise the diesel creek made this video with his 977!.

Was that the northern pike with that Euclid dozer?

That picture that popped up for this video of the cat and can carryall is from the 40s or 50s.

7:56 Allis Chalmers was in the Pioneer Power show in Albany , Mn. a few years ago, the 1st time it had I believe transmission problem then repaired to show in the show another year.

HD41 and HD31 were not common tractors compared to the HD21, D8, D9, D7 and D6 caterpillar . I ran a HD31 fora day and a HD41 for only half a day when the transmission piled up, only 37 hours on it. My dad was actually serious about buying the HD31 but after that incident he went with a D8H high horsepower instead. The fiat 200 grader we had was nice to operate but constant rearend trouble that filled the transmission full of filings. The International TD40 is a bigger better crawler.

Take some time to look up Wokewine Cutting in Australia, a terrific project.

clearly says 955 on the machine labeled as 977

The 977K Track Loader shown first is a 955H