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Euclid truck in use at Chuquicamata copper mine in 1984 Euclid truck at a quarry in Poland (2013) The Euclid Company of Ohio was a manufacturer which specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving, particularly dump trucks, loaders and wheel tractor-scrapers. It operated in the US from the 1920s to the 1950s, when it was purchased by General ...
The first application was in Euclid mining trucks, where the driver's income depends on how fast he drives the empty truck back down into the pit. The centrifugal blower ran about 10 times engine speed. Exceeding that RPM was fatal, and in a truck a single missed downshift could mean a failed engine."
The Titan was the largest in the Terex 33 series of off-road haul trucks, which also included the 33–03, 33–05, 33–07, 33–09, 33-11 and the 33–15. The 33-19 and the 33-15 both used diesel/AC electric powertrains, while the other, smaller members of the 33 series of haul trucks used mechanical powertrains.
In 1953, General Motors purchased Euclid, expanding the business to include more than half of all U.S. off-highway dump truck sales. Due to a 1968 Justice Department ruling, GM was required to stop manufacturing and selling off-highway trucks in the United States for four years and divest the Euclid brand. GM coined the "Terex" name in 1968 ...
Euclid, a Euclid R170 quarry dump truck shows how he and his brother Ernie, also a Euclid R170 quarry dump truck are loaded with rocks by LeTourneau, a LeTourneau L-1100 front end loader and bring the rocks from the quarry to a rock crusher, turning them into gravel.
One result of this was a revival of iron-ore mining in Ontario, with one of the most difficult and spectacular mining projects ever undertaken in this country-and perhaps in any other. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The first speculation of iron ore being under Steep Rock Lake was in 1891, when Professor Henry L. Smyth, of Harvard University, came across ...
Woodward #3 was south of Lipscomb, and was the last operational mining site on Red Mountain. Number three closed about 1953. Woodward #3 Tipple, located on the northwest slope of Red Mountain, continued to be used to handle ore that was being hauled, by Euclid trucks, from the Woodward Songo Slope Mine two miles to the east.
Terex Corporation's Terex Mining division debuted the Terex Unit Rig MT6300AC at MINExpo International in September, 2008. [5] Prior to the introduction of the MT6300AC and the Caterpillar 797F at MINExpo International in September, 2008, the Liebherr T 282B, introduced in 2004, was the only haul truck with a payload capacity of 363 t (400 short tons).