Old Cable Pull Scraper

Thank you for the information and pictures Pete. Looking in the can of the old scraper, it seems to be in good condition. The tires are shot. Is it hard to find rubber for these? Is there any value is selling one other than for scrap iron?

657bruce,

Garlic Pete has it right…it’s a Wooldridge without any doubt. This one appears to be smaller then G. Pete’s if it is you should have no trouble pulling with a D79G and or a D6 U as G. Pete has said.

If you can’t find the SN plate, one can measure up the scraper bowl to find out the capacity in Cu.Yd’s, then maybe we could come up with the model and size. The smaller scrapers were referred to as the “Boiling Bowl” scrapers with a “BB” prefix in the model number. The larger scrapers took on the name as the “Terra Clipper”, with the TC in the model prefix. At one time the early scrapers where nicked named the “Haystack Wooldridge” because the structure over the bowl give the appearance of a haystack, as well as some other scrapers by other manufactures.

As I have said in an earlier post on the same subject with G. Pete’s scraper the sheave block on the back of the apron was to low and in some cases filled up with dirt and was very hard on dump cables.

See if you can come up some numbers and maybe we can get this little closer as to what size it is. Then you can buy a caterpillar tractor to go with it. LOL! Good luck.

Kelly