Hello everyone!
I am very happy to be here with you all. Have been browsing this forum for years and finally decided to sign up and contribute. I have had a life-long love of heavy equipment, the history of it, as well as the history of major construction/interstate/mining projects in the US and rest of the world. Although I work in Federal Contracting now, and not excavation, my love of heavy equipment has NEVER died! I follow updates and keep in tune with both new information/equipment, as well as researching the great history of muck shifting in general. My true passion still lies with heavy equipment up through the '90s.... I am much more into the classic iron, than all the new "computer/gps/electronics" driven machinery of today. Even as a grown family man in his 40's who has been out of the industry for over a decade, I can still name every piece of equipment model number, specs, construction company etc. from 5000 feet away like the rest of you... quite freaky to family and friends! My godfather retired from Caterpillar in 1981, and worked there for over 30 years, helping design the original hydraulic systems, etc. I also grew up in Northeast Ohio during the time when Terex + Euclid ruled the hauling/scraper world. I still work about 10 minutes from the original Euclid factory in Euclid, OH, and graduated from Kent State University which is a stone's throw from the Hudson Terex plant, located at the end of... you guessed it... Terex Road. Since I was 2-3 years old, my grandfather + dad used to take me to all the major construction projects around town (downtown Cleveland, multiple major subdivisions, the construction of I-480 extension, etc. etc). I used to sometimes get to sit on the operator's lap when I caught a cool one, and they'd take me around on their TS-14, PC400LC, D9G and multiple other classic pieces of equipment. I have lots of great stories to share, both from my personal experience and observation, to the stories from my god father, and dad, who lived during the post WWII construction boom and were witness to many of the biggest earth moving projects in the area.
Cant wait to interact with you all officially and cheers to all!
Below is a pic of me after "quitting time" at a local subdivision around 1980, pretending to "operate" the ol' TS-14... This was owned by DiGioia Brother's (now DiGioia-Suburban excavating after the merger), quite a large firm to this day in the area.... Ahhh those were the days! Bring back old iron and to hell with the digital age!!!
I am very happy to be here with you all. Have been browsing this forum for years and finally decided to sign up and contribute. I have had a life-long love of heavy equipment, the history of it, as well as the history of major construction/interstate/mining projects in the US and rest of the world. Although I work in Federal Contracting now, and not excavation, my love of heavy equipment has NEVER died! I follow updates and keep in tune with both new information/equipment, as well as researching the great history of muck shifting in general. My true passion still lies with heavy equipment up through the '90s.... I am much more into the classic iron, than all the new "computer/gps/electronics" driven machinery of today. Even as a grown family man in his 40's who has been out of the industry for over a decade, I can still name every piece of equipment model number, specs, construction company etc. from 5000 feet away like the rest of you... quite freaky to family and friends! My godfather retired from Caterpillar in 1981, and worked there for over 30 years, helping design the original hydraulic systems, etc. I also grew up in Northeast Ohio during the time when Terex + Euclid ruled the hauling/scraper world. I still work about 10 minutes from the original Euclid factory in Euclid, OH, and graduated from Kent State University which is a stone's throw from the Hudson Terex plant, located at the end of... you guessed it... Terex Road. Since I was 2-3 years old, my grandfather + dad used to take me to all the major construction projects around town (downtown Cleveland, multiple major subdivisions, the construction of I-480 extension, etc. etc). I used to sometimes get to sit on the operator's lap when I caught a cool one, and they'd take me around on their TS-14, PC400LC, D9G and multiple other classic pieces of equipment. I have lots of great stories to share, both from my personal experience and observation, to the stories from my god father, and dad, who lived during the post WWII construction boom and were witness to many of the biggest earth moving projects in the area.
Cant wait to interact with you all officially and cheers to all!
Below is a pic of me after "quitting time" at a local subdivision around 1980, pretending to "operate" the ol' TS-14... This was owned by DiGioia Brother's (now DiGioia-Suburban excavating after the merger), quite a large firm to this day in the area.... Ahhh those were the days! Bring back old iron and to hell with the digital age!!!
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