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Cleveland trench digger

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Chris Weaver

01-08-2006 21:58:20




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Hi,
I was out in Laguna National park in San Diego County, CA, and saw an old tracked tractor/trench digger that was red and had a Cleveland nameplate on the rediator grill and a Cleveland sign on the side. I'm not a tractor afficianodo, but I am an engineer and interested in machinery. It looked old, so when I got home I tried to google Cleveland tractors. It seems that this is an old, nearly pre-WWII manufacturer. The one I saw had a big rotary scoop trenching digger on the front. Is this really a 60+ year old machine, or were there newer versions?
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Chris

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JDknut

01-10-2006 03:52:01




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 Re: Cleveland trench digger in reply to Chris Weaver, 01-08-2006 21:58:20  
Cleveland wrote the book on trenching machines. They are one of the old line manufacturers, altho by now, I think they may have been bought out.



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ILL John

01-09-2006 11:11:09




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 Re: Cleveland trench digger in reply to Chris Weaver, 01-08-2006 21:58:20  
When I started with the local natural gas company in 1971 we had 4 or 5 Cleveland trenchers, all track machines. The biggest would dig a trench 5' deep and 1' wide, the smaller ones had 3' or 4' deep by 8" or 10" width. We used them up into the early 80s, they used Continental engines, either 4 or 6 cylinders. Some of these machines were painted red while others were yellow.



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Chris(WA)

01-09-2006 04:48:15




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 Re: Cleveland trench digger in reply to Chris Weaver, 01-08-2006 21:58:20  
It is entirely possible it is that old.I have seen rotary trenchers that date from the 1930's. You might want to check with the folks in the crawler forum as they are a bit more focused on that type of machine. Did you happen to take any pictures you could post? Glad to hear you have interest in old machinery of any type!



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