CAT DW20 with #456 Scraper

[kevmeister]

I'll have to get a picture of my dad's old rig.

John Deere had a corporate partnership with Hancock manufacturing (late 50's-early 60's), and they made an interesting contraption called an Elevating Scraper. Just picture the scraper in this thread having hydraulics for the bucket dump, bucket lift and a rotating paddle-blade assembly (to push loose granular material into the bucket and to keep it there). It was, essentially, an 840 John Deere tractor hooked up to the Hancock elevating scraper bucket (8 yards cap.). the thing was great for building roads, approaches, and for working on dikes and irrigation canals (they were working in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat area of Alberta). he still has the rig and it still works (but needs a lot of work).