My dad had one of these machines.. if you ever want another one I know where you can find one, with the rebuild manual and everything.It weighed 62 tons. It was a nice machine to operate, low to the ground with one of the widest tables I've ever seen very stable.. These machines were said to have an 80 ton lift capacity at the pin.I Know for a fact that it will up root 36" dia. trees like their carrots. :) Thanks for sharing and bringing back good memories of a machine I use to operate and fix.
The operator is correct about these L48-H's . Lorain didn't produce a great number of these . Koehring the parent company of Lorain had its own hydraulic excavator line so it would have competed against the Koehring 666 I believe . I remember seeing many in the northeast in the late 60's through the 70's.. The design was modern looking for its day, but the one drawback was the weak hydraulic bottom . The shaft from the hydraulic motors to the reduction gearing on the side frame were prone to breakage. Great video of a very rare 1st generation American hydraulic excavator. Would like to see more .
I know of two of these in NE Colorado, on is a parts machine and the other is sitting waiting on a job that may never come. He’s also got a P&H and a huge Koehring 1066 sitting there too. I’d hate to see them cut up and need to be saved
Granite Construction had one of these in Santa Cruz, Ca. In those days, their main yard was in Watsonville, half-way between Santa Cruz and Monterey. Santa Cruz was home to smaller Granite yard. Now most everything around here is Granite Rock, instead. They're related, but I don't know how they divvy up the work. Maybe they're completely separate companies these days.
Excellent Video! There were a few of these around when I was growing up. Unfortunately they were all gone by the time I was old enough to run a machine.
im a big fan of lorain machines i appreciate the chance to see this very rare machine i run a lorain 80j and a tl25 i have some videos up if you guys wanna check them out will upload walk aroundd in near future
That control configuration with the thumb buttons is similar to Koehring excavators of that era. But it has levers you can use for the dipper and bucket, has to be smoother for fine work.
Sweet. I agree with CJ on the tunes. I have a couple of the official Koehring excavators. Just about the same control design with the trigger buttons. Mine has the air assist. Lookup Zagray farm on YT. :)
Lorain is a French heavey equipment and tank manufacturer Koehring was founded in the US but by german immigrants why do you speak of american engineering its american money with european engineering
