Euclid TC-12

Hi, 'Squishy'.
Good stuff. Another imaginative offering from the Master Manipulator, the 'Yowie' from the Wantirna swamps.

Thank you, Sir.

Swishy,we used to have two of them.The first one burnt up in a fire,a can of starting fliud fell down between the crack down the middle.We used them for heavy pushing and also to push our fleet of Euclid TS-24 scrapers,Cat 657's scrapers.Thanks Mike Durkin

hicrop, give us a little more info. Did you like the big ugly green beast? Break down much? Can you still hear LoL?

If the right side is running the winches does the left side run something to even the power out?

MikeMc,I was very young at the time so I only recall alittle.Talking with some of our old timers the tc-12 was slow compared to the D9's we were using.We had other green tractors over the years but found that they didn't hold up as good as the Cats.They were not very popular back here in eastern Pa.Now the scrapers we found were much better than the Cats.We used to run about 20-25 Ts-24"s,some Cat 657's and Cat 631's.Out of all of them the ts-24's were the best.I can remember driving one down the highway and the rear transmission drop into first,we pulled into a gas station borrowed some wire and a soldering gun and were back on the road in 15 minutes.That what was so good about ht euclid scrapers they were real easy to fix.We are down to our last 5 scrapers now and are looking to sell them.Mike Durkin

An interesting machine to say the least ,from my recolection of them they were basically two 82-40s paired together and therfore double the trouble they did sound good though never really a match for the D9G

GWH - The company history and the eventual disappearance of Euclid is a story enough in itself to fill a book. Purchase a copy of "Euclid and Terex Earthmoving Machines" by Eric C. Orlemann, and you'll get a fairly good outline of Euclid and Terex histories. However, this book is by no means a complete history of Euclid.

I have added a substantial amount to the originally poor, Wiki entry, as regards Euclid Trucks. This gives a basic outline of Euclids amazing corporate record, and the multiple changes of ownership .. from the original founders, the highly successful, George Armington and his five sons .. to GM .. to White Motor Corp .. to Daimler Benz .. to Clark Equipment Co .. to Volvo Michigan Euclid .. and then, finally to Hitachi.

Hitachi utilised the Euclid name for a little while as a springboard to enter the dump truck market, but phased out the name by the end of 2004, thus ensuring the disappearance of one the longest-lived names in the earthmoving/construction/mining equipment field.

Wiki - Euclid trucks .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_Trucks

Thank you Ron, I shall read! GWH

Hi, Vasco.
It is my understanding that the TC12 was designed from the ground up as a twin-engined tractor, it was the FIRST crawler to come out of Euclid's design and engineering department and that the C6 came along after the TC12.

If my recollection is right, the only 82-40 I ever operated had an 8V71 'screaming'demon' in it. The TC12 had two straight 6-71's, as, I think, did the Terex 82-80, which is what the TC12 became when the Terex name took over.

I would have liked to have had a play with one of these beasts and may yet manage that as I know where there are a couple in running condition within a 'bull's roar' of here. (We have some pretty loud bulls DowNunder. LOL.)