Euclid Earthmovers
EUCLID, INC., was one of the world's leading firms in the manufacture of off-highway, earthmoving, and hauling equipment. The company began in 1926 as part of the Euclid Crane & Hoist Co., a firm founded by Geo. Armington in 1909. In 1931 Armington's son, Arthur, took over a small shop adjoining Euclid Crane at 1368 Chardon Rd. in EUCLID and incorporated Euclid Crane & Hoist's off-highway division as a separate firm, the Euclid Rd. Machinery Co. Beginning with 300 employees, the company produced as many as 20 15-ton trucks per month for the construction and mining industries. Euclid tripled its production during World War II and continued to prosper in the postwar period. In 1946 it built a new plant at E. 222nd St. and St. Clair; bought another nearby plant 3 years later; and gained an international reputation for quality equipment. When General Motors acquired the firm for $20 million in 1953, Euclid Rd. was a $33 million business with 1,600 employees turning out 170 trucks per month-over half the nation's off-highway dump trucks.
OSHA was a dream Detroits are cutting edge
These machines a just awesome to be around. We have a TC12 Dozer at our show that will be getting one of the engines replaced during our May show in Brownsville, PA. Thanks for your comment.
The best wheel barrow ever so to speak .
I remember when wearing a Euclid watch fob was considered an honor among construction workers.
Million cubic yd club😊
Operated them in the Seabees 78-83 and in a union rock quarry in South Bethlehem NY back in 88. I can't believe after running heavy equipment for over 40 years I can still hear. What a great video.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks, I am looking for more of these types of videos.
Say " What " i drove a bus to the moon . Kramden bus co 😄
@@trevorgwelch7412 I worked for Kramden bus co on moon station 3 to.
@@Ray-lo4hr ?
Tough machines but tougher men on the levers
Nonsence fat lasy slobs on the levers not a bit physical graft in any of them
just imagine - this truck could fit in the bed of many present day quarry sized dumps of todays pit dumps, amazing
A 777 fits in the bed of a 797.
@@awboat And that 797 fits in the bed of a Belaz haul truck.
I started out on a euc ts14 motor scraper at 17 yrs of age
My first trucking job in 1971 was driving 1959 8TDT to feed gravel plant.
Back in the 70s my Dad drove 85 ton Eucs in Pennsylvania. He took us up one time and we went for a ride in one. It was incredible.
My grandson just started a driving Euclid dump at our earthing demo show this past August. He enjoys driving it around our show grounds.
Hard hats? We don't need no stinking hard hats!
Their minds were not warped
I know
@@coldspring624 , but their heads where dented, that's better.
Love the past movies
In the early 60's I attended a boys camp in Black Mountain, N.C..Next to the camp was a quarry of some kind and we would watch Euclid bottom dumps roar down a wide lime rock road and they were really rolling. The tractors had fully enclosed cabs and I swear they had to be traveling 40-45 mph at least... quite an impressive machine.
I enjoy watching them at our shows. My grandson just started driving one this year.
What a Gem! Thanks for posting it.
Glad you enjoyed it
Shame how Euclid died and got sold out. They were one of the best at building super sized excavation equipment by the standards of the time.
We have several Euclid machines at our show. I like to hear them run during the show.
The first true heavy duty off highway dump trucks and they built the first twin engine scrapers too
I hear ya 🍻🇺🇸
Did Terex buy them? My dad worked at Terex Scotland, but they all called it Euclid. Cool stuff, giant Tonka toys 👍
Clearly weren't among the best if they disappeared.
always liked euclid earthmoving & hauling equipment. I have always like older equipment.
I fell the same. I am envolved with several groups that have these older earthmoving machines. I will be posting more videos of these events as they happen.
No Air conditioning in the Nevada desert must've been brutal .
I don't even think they had cab fans yet. They did have heat for the winter.
Those tractor powered bottom dumps crack me up. Those poor guys out there in the open, they must have went home aching every evening.
Thanks 👍
Speed'''' time is money
Beats being on pick and shovel
James D. Morrissey from Philadelphia is still running 40- and 50-year-old Euclid rear dump and bottom dump haulers, he keeps them in great shape...and paints everything Morrissey Green.
i remember seeing these up at the rushvalley quarry off of swamp rd
Reminds me of my high school summers working construction for Tipton Construction...in the mid-seventies. Everything was 40 +years old...cable Bantams and Koehring excavators, Cat D8 cable dozers and a cool old Euc rock back dump with screaming Detroit!! Nothing had brakes...true wonder no one was killed! Always welding and getting a bigger hammer to fix stuff!!! Man, those were the days!! One day the old D8 got in bind and we had to take a track off. The mechanic was beating the heck out the link pin with a 12 lb sledge and it wasn't going to move. I said why don't you use the 90 lb pavement breaker with moil point. He stopped, looking at his helper, cursed, told him to pull the compressor over...we held that point up on that pin with 3 seconds on the lever - out it popped...
@@johnharrisonpippin7126 I worked as a field Mechanic for S. J. Groves, the equipment manager, Jim Hammel had us use the same trick, handheld rivet busters also worked well. We also had a 6" diameter shaft about 6 LF. long, held by a cable, used it as pin driver, was also VERY effective. ==
@@saulharrison5272 Yup I Travel to Rusland Feed mill Every Month and remembered them Well ! JD had a Host of those Eucs at one time Luv'em : )
I worked for Morrissey in Bethlehem Steel , drove an R-35
I saw a Euclid still bein used at Cleveland Cliffs steel mill on the Cuyahoga River back in April or May. I'd never seen or heard of one. Glad this popped up cuz I was curious about it.
I grew up living right next to I90 in Cleveland by the first pedestrian bridge overpass by 185th. I remember they would not fit under the bridge, taking them downtown to load on freighters for shipping around the world. I remember watching them drive through the grass off the side of the freeway with lower height to be able to fit under the bridge.
I had totally forgotten about the pedestrian bridges!
@@jimmccormick6091 the first one by 185th was slammed into by a raised bed dump truck about eight years ago and destroyed and they had to tear it down then have rebuilt it. But I’m not sure why they spent the money to rebuild it because those two pedestrian bridges the one by 185th St., and the other one closer down near 152nd were built after the freeway went through because so many people worked at Collinwood yards in the factories that walked over those bridges on the way to work. Of course today there’s hardly any of that volume of pedestrian traffic walking to work anymore so I’m not sure why they rebuilt that one.
I remember going to Euclid Mall or visiting friends in the eastern suburbs during the early 80s and seeings one parked off of I90 .
The Euc plant was on E222 in Euclid (duh!), Ohio. it was just down the street from TRW, but, TRW never parked enormous construction equipment out front of their plant. As a little boy, it was always a special treat to drive by there, and see those massive earth movers. Failing economy, global competition, and who knows what else led to the end for the EUCS...
Same here...a rid down St Clair to Euclid Square Mall was all I wanted to do.
I believe Euclid was absorbed by Terex, also another GM acquisition......
Pretty sure Lincoln Electric now owns that building and it is the welding school.
It merged into VME, Volvo Michigan Euclid. Only the L320 descended off Michigan designs, the rest were Swedish designs. Only in recent years, Volvo bought the line of Terex rigid haulers
I ran a euc r22 back in 1989 when I started in an open pit quarry in Poughkeepsie ny.still there.thanks for the channel.
Thanks for watching!
"Po-town", huh?? I lived on Hooker Ave opposite Vassar, for 7 years...awesome town.
My dad drove one in the 60’s in the winter. He said they used a fire pail. A steel bucket burning a small fire for heat. Amazing how tough the earlier generations were.✊🏽👊🏾
I could not imagine having a fire burning to keep warm. Have you noticed how thin the guys were in these old videos?
@@EarthmoversofthePast yes, they were thin but so tough. Sure built a lot of highways and other projects with these mechanical marvels.
@@missesmew They did make a big change in our world. My father-in-law was a operating enginner from the 60's and he was surely a tough man.
You've got that right! Just look at "today's" machinery...air-conditioned cabs surrounded by tinted glass!! I'm 72, and -- when I was a kid, I was fascinated by earth-moving equipment. Euclids always captured me...especially scrapers, with diesel engines "fore-and-aft"...and, loud ones at that...probably Detroits.
@@ebf82234 nothing like them “screaming jimmies “!
Euclid dumper was the first quarry plant i worked on when i started my apprenticeship as a plant mechanic in UK back in 1976 , retired now but miss the old days 😁😁👍👍
We have about 10 of them at our show in Brownsville, PA USA.
The little man on the Euclid sticker is Pioneer Pete.. he's pointing to progress One of customers said he's pointing to the shop 😄
I did not know that man have a name. Thanks for this comment also.
pointing towards the Future'' Charge'''' Battle Cry
Yes..a lot of old hands used to say ..." To the workshop" Funny thing is the dump trucks R series.were virtually unbreakable.
Slower, louder, less fuel efficient and uncomfortable to operate but, built to last, something not seen anymore.
Such bullshit.
I used to work a Euclid in a quarry in Scotland. It had come from ravenscraig steel works . It had a wide quarry body .
These type videos are right up my alley. Thank you. I just subscribed to your channel. Good luck!
Thanks for subscribing. Hope that you like my future videos.
I operated a Bucyrus Erie 88-B series 3 in Tasu BC Canada in 1968.
Do you have pictures or video of you operating this machine?
@@EarthmoversofthePast No the mine site location was in Tasu bc for Falcon bridge CO also Bucyrus Erie 71-B 6-71 engine and a 110 Bucyrus electric, year 1968. i am 75 years old.
@@Ray-lo4hr Ok, thanks. I was 8 years old.
I can't stop thinking of the Euclid classification of SCPs.
Thank You!
You're welcome!
We still use these "B-70's" up on the "North Slope" of Alaska, in the oilfields up there. Of course they have all been extensively refurbishment with new motors, cabs, hydraulics for the extreme cold of winter. But still a mighty strong truck for hauling gravel. And I used to operate some with water tankers for making "Ice Roads" as well.
did`nt Parker schnable have a couple of these? Im sure his granpa had at least one.
Back in 1964 I rolled a three window 18 ton Euclid. The old truck only had a parking brake all other brakes were non functional. As I header up the dump ramp I shifted into number one gear guess what the rear axel broke. The parking brake on the truck was the only brake on the truck and it only worked on the drive shaft. Here I am No brake no drive shaft,the truck started heading down the ramp. I was just 18 year old I opened the driver side door and bailout of the truck went off the road and rolled over. I had no training prior to driving the old truck.😮
I drove one in the late 90s what a beast. Screaming demon ,rrrrrrrrr
I love old stories form older generations u can Learn a lot
Your training day was over when you jumped out for your life
Are you OK now.🚛
@@Ray-lo4hr yes
50+ yrs ago we used to hang out at Buckeye Sports Center (still there I think) in N/E Ohio. It was owned by the founders grandson.
i love videos like this keep it up
A "commercial" for prospective customers back in the day. Fascinating machinery.
We have several of these machining operating during our earthmoving show in Brownsville, PA. I will be posting videos of them on this channel.
Impressive historical presentation. Well done!
Thank you so much 😀
As of 1990 we had Euclid rock dump units, Detroit diesel screaming & truck at walking speed- they did a good job - Old navy mechanic report.
We have about 5 of them at our show grounds. I always like watching them haul dirt.
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I LOVED watching this. You have a new subscriber in England !
"BIG UNIT" at 15:30 is Workin!!!! Hell Yeah, Big Unit! ...hellsyeah. 🍻 ...now I'm Subscribed!
Awesome.. as boys get older their toys get bigger 👍
We have some of these trucks from the past at our show. My grandson just started driving them this year and really has fun doing it.
Back in the 60's, my Dad would drive us down by Republic Steel in Cleveland, the Euclids would drive by on Independence Rd. Hauling red hot slag. Cool to see as a kid!
Back in August of 2023 I got some time behind the wheel of a Euclid R20 truck moving some broke up asphalt, that was my first time operating a truck that big, hope to get another chance to do it again. I have always like watching and operating old earthmoving machines. Thanks for your comment.
There used to be a Euclid assembly facility in Guelph Ontario not exactly sure what year it changed but they build Hitachi there now some big iron comes outa there
Wales 🏴 uk ... R35s Detroit & Cummins power also R50s V16 2strokes hauling iron ore & scrap in the 1980s great time fantastic machines 😎
We have several of these machines at our show and I got a change to drive one dump trucks this year to move some old asphalt, it was fun to drive around our haul roads.
Euclid didn't die. There was a 70s merger between Volvo Construction Equipment, Michigan and Euclid named VME Construction Equipment. After a couple decades Volvo bought up the outstanding shares and and all but the Volvo trade Mark disappeared
Wondered about VME...what it meant. Thanks!!
@John Harrison Pippin yes.... Volvo Michigan Euclid. Hitachi owns them now
American Muscle getting the job done
I remember the euclids. Heckett hauling hot loads thru the exploranium to see if the scrap was hot. If not, dump it in the pile. If it was hot, haul it to the back for sorting. I kinda miss multi-serv
I worked for Eucid dealer for 14 years. I was lucky enough to go to Guelf Ontario a couple of times for training on R40 & R60/65. I miss working on them. Volvo owned them, and then Hitachi.
Thanks for your comment. We have several of these machines at our show in Brownsville, PA.
I always thought it was “yuk”, that’s still what we call site trucks around here, never seen one of these before.
Does anyone know about what year this video was produced. I remember seeing the Euclid Earth Movers in action in 1956 when a road was being built near my home in 1956.
Great video! These towed conveyor excavators towed bottom dump trailers are interesting! But I can see why they are no longer used(?), because of maintenance & service on four machines instead of maintenance & service on one machine (a scraper, which seems to do the same job).
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15 ton capacity…huge at the time. Today 400 ton capacity is big.
Tires still look much the same in 2022 😊
We still have 2 18 ton eucs. Twist the key and away you go. Also have an 8 ton dumpster and petty one loader. Have to tinker with them to play.
We have about 7 trucks and 1 dozer at our show in Brownsville, PA.
I like these Old Eucs because if you got ran over by one of these, it would bust the ghost 👻 out of you.
B70s at the Calmat plant - Irwindale Ca - 1988
Those BV loaders were something else. I wonder if there is anything today that can move that much material in such a short time other than a large spread of scrapers. I have been out of the moving game for too many years to know for sure. Really good stuff here. It would be cool to see some of the large FFD or LLD truck that came in later years in action. Cheers
Hope to have some Euclid video from a historical earthmoving show in Brownsville, PA.
Eu como mecânico trabalhei com alguns caminhões EUCLID na decada de 70 aqui no Brasil. Quem assumiu a EUCLID aqui no Brasil foi a TEREX. Durante muitos anos a TEREX manteve muito componentes da EUCLID até anos 2000. Que época boa...
Yep power assisted steering and brakes unless your engine died then you had about 5 seconds to steer into something big enough to stop you with 75 tons pushing you!!!
Kiriburu Iron ore mining, Bihar, India used to have a fleet of 27 tons Euclid dumpers from 1963 before switching over to licence built Haulpak Wabco BEML 35 tonners.
Back in the 1980s, my brother-in-law moved to Euclid Ohio to work for the Euclid corporation he had worked for Rudd equipment Company in Louisville and got a chance to move up.
That would have been interesting working on those big trucks. I would have wanted the job of moving the trucks out of the factory to the storage area.
I service vending machines at a Euclit manufacturing plant in ontario Canada, amazing place 450 tonne earth movers . they modified the building to get the dump portion out just to ship it to the mine for assembly. The trucks in the first five minutes look like todays road dump trucks. they carry 70 to 80 thousand pound loads at 100 kmh.
That would have been a sight to see. I have liked earthmoving machines sense I was a kid and still at 62 years old. Thanks for the comment!
Well back in the 60s by Seattle they were building I-5 from my aunt and uncle's it was 1/2 mile we would use binoculars and watching all this heavy-duty equipment building I-5 that was neat 🏆🇺🇸🤔
We still have several of these trucks running at the National Pike Steam Show in Brownsville,PA. I will be posting them operating after the shows this year.
My first haul truck was this same truck but it was in 1996 !
These trucks are still running all these years later.
i drove past the Euc Manifacturing Plant alot on the 70's Euclid Ohio .. one guy we did some house Construction for said he worked for a company that employed Euc Trucks ,. He Said they dismantled them and Cut them Up and put the pieces down a elevator Shaft that Reached Under Lake Erie '' then would Weld & Reassemble them and Put Them too Work Moving Salt..
That is interesting, would have liked to see that in person. I just love being around these old machines. Sorry for my delay in reading your comment.
Hope you keep videos like these coming. Awesome! Do you know what year this video was made?
No, sorry
nice video bro
Thanks for the comment. Hope to find more like it.
So at some point the loader and bottom dumpers were superseded by scrapers ?
>> at some point the loader and bottom dumpers were superseded by scrapers ?
Euclid's are so awesome. I am looking for a Euclid tractor scraper or /and bottom dumper or a 20 ton wide body dump with either a cummins or a Detroit Diesel
They are awesome, we have several of them at our historical earthmover show in Brownsville, PA. My grandson is just starting to drive one of them at the show.
@@EarthmoversofthePast That is awesome. I would love to find one to actually put back in use. I am a chemical engineer however a little over 18 months ago I was leaving my house in Phoenixville to make the hour and a half commute (sometimes less) on my 1957 fully restored Harley Panhead and I was hit, flipped up , over and wrapped around a telephone pole by a Ford F350. The rear tire ran over my right leg nearly severing it .Thank God I fought and fought with the surgeons who had said I had less than 6 minutes left to live when I got to the hospital. I was struggling to breathe and it felt like I was drowning. The blood clots from the leg had dispersed to my heart and lungs. It has been a very hard lesson to learn that we are not invincible. To make a long story short I realized that life is too short to be doing something that we do not enjoy. I love welding, fabrication and machining along with small engine repair. I started a small engine repair business along with mobile welding and fabrication. I am slowly putting to gather a machine shop. I am also putting together a mobile machine shop as well because I am running into obsolete equipment with no available parts. I need a relatively small milling machine and a few other pieces of equipment.. As I said I am in Eastern Pa out near conshohocken. I would love to purchase one of those smaller Euclid trucks or even maybe a bottom dumper. One of those steaming 12 Euclid tracked crawler would be awesome.
@@johnkoury1116 That you for sharing with me about your life. God sometimes has plans for of lives that my not make sense at first. I also enjoy working on just about anything mechanical. I have a shop that is setup for woodworking and metalworking. I am currently working on two old cable shovels and a crane. I don't know anyone that is selling any Euclid equipment but if you would like to see some of these old machines operating, we have two shows at Brownsville, PA. Best of wishing on your full recovery and your new career. Thanks for your comments.
@@EarthmoversofthePast Really cool, thank you. Hopefully we can get together sometime. I am really close to being able to start my YT channel. I know where there is a 1983 Yamaha three wheeler that was scrapped and left in the junk yard for 10 years . I found it three years ago when I was going to pick up a flatbed for my welding rig. Right now it is in an old barn with tons of stuff on top. I plan on using that to start my channel and then keep going. I found a Porsche 914 GT6 factory Race car clone in a Barnyard out near you. It is still on the trailer and I want to start restoring it. Are you on Facebook?
@@johnkoury1116 It sounds like you have plenty of projects for starting a successful KZhead channel, it is interesting to me about how some of my videos do good and other just get less. I would recommend after starting your KZhead channel is to check the analytics of your videos just to see how your well you are retaining your viewers. I am not currently using my Facebook account. You can always find me at the National Pike Steam Show in Brownsville, PA during and after the show events.
Ran an R22
I ran one for a couples of hours prior to one of our shows. I was very loud in the cab but was an enjoyable experience.
Looks like rear view mirrors were optional equipment on the trucks. Dangerous? Safe?
If you watch you will see that they drive by the dumping site to make sure nothing is in that area then back in. Somewhat safe?
0:57 an example of the past “safety last”
Even back then that should have been not acceptable.
More common sense than having to be told every move these days
I have been around dirt track racing my whole life and always wondered why they called then "EUC" tires. 😅
Now you know. These trucks are much slower that your dirt track racing machines, but they are awesome to be around during our shows.
@@EarthmoversofthePastMost dirt tracks use EUC tires to line the infield or around a light poles etc. I've learned not to hit them with a racecar, it doesn't end well. 🤕😅
Aswan Dam: Russian trucks weren't up to the job. So, Euclids were brought in. The UK identity marks, were painted out!
How is baseball Oldboy goin'
Euclid mostly used Detroit engines and some Rolls Royce. They also built crawlers too. I still have a manual for C6. Lol
We have one of the crawlers at our show grounds in Brownsville, PA. Thanks for the comment.
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20 cu. yds of coal would weigh 46,000 lbs.; but these trucks are heaped up and are carrying more that 20 cu. yds.!
That would be one heavy truck. We have a Euclid at our show the has dual engines and dual rear axles. The bed on this truck is wide with short sides, they named it "Big Ugly". Thanks for the comments.
They always had the weld fab shop put extended side boards on our haul trucks. I was in the crusher control room and asked the operator how much was the 240 ton haul truck was hauling. He said I'll tell right after this one dumps. He said the digital scale on the conveyor belt registered 300 tons. After I retired I heard they got 300 toners. I suppose they haul 380 ton on them.
No mirrors
"What's behind you is not important."
What's in front of you is the future, what's behind you is history. If you see flames, step on it!
Anyone notice no mirrors? Wont see that today
@Chuck Miskel Sure you will. Trucks now days use cameras for the sides rear and front, with a warrning system like cars have now days for backing up, only way better of a system.
They had to be attentive back then, know their surroundings. I hate to be around today's construction sites with constant beeping sounds from all directions. Is that safer or would just being attentive work? Thanks for your comment.
This company still in business?
The Euclid company is not in business. Here is a link to the Wikipedia article about them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_Trucks.
In 2004 became Hitachi owned
IronYore
where SCP foundation at?
Bought out by the Chinese??
In 1959 the Department of Justice under Attorney General William P. Rogers initiated an antitrust suit, under the Clayton Act, against General Motors Corporation. It charged that GM was too dominant, and its business methods stifled competition in the off-road hauler and earthmoving market. GM fought the suit for eight years, finally surrendering in 1968, agreeing to sell the Euclid Division. Article from Wikipedia.
15-30 tons is laughable! Nowadays, off road trucks used in quarries and open pit mining can haul 20X that. That is a HUGE difference. Although, at the time, they were a huge step up from a donkey and a cart. Believe that!
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that's what I thought. toxic masculinity
1:57....sir, you can't park your car there.