Renze
Elite Member
I have a question:
When i was a kid, i read about scrapers in kid's picture books. So i knew they existed, and CAT makes them. Recently i've been watching some videos on YouTube, and i saw them working in the wild.
However, i have never seen one, sitting or working, not in the Netherlands, nor in other countries i've been.
When i asked a friend who lives in Finland, he says he never saw a scraper in Finland either.
It seems that america is the only continent where scrapers are in common use.
Now i really wonder why ?
My friend in finland says its because scrapers are useless when the frost sets in early.
A reason i can think of myself, is that over here in Holland, most ground is too soft and slippery for scrapers to get traction.
However, Canada and the northern USA are at about the same distance from the north pole as Finland, and many areas in North America have the same soft and wet soils as we have in Holland.
Are scrapers used all over America, or only in some areas where the ground is dry and hard ?
And whats the benefit over loaders/excavators and dumptrucks/farm tractor with dump trailers ?
When i was a kid, i read about scrapers in kid's picture books. So i knew they existed, and CAT makes them. Recently i've been watching some videos on YouTube, and i saw them working in the wild.
However, i have never seen one, sitting or working, not in the Netherlands, nor in other countries i've been.
When i asked a friend who lives in Finland, he says he never saw a scraper in Finland either.
It seems that america is the only continent where scrapers are in common use.
Now i really wonder why ?
My friend in finland says its because scrapers are useless when the frost sets in early.
A reason i can think of myself, is that over here in Holland, most ground is too soft and slippery for scrapers to get traction.
However, Canada and the northern USA are at about the same distance from the north pole as Finland, and many areas in North America have the same soft and wet soils as we have in Holland.
Are scrapers used all over America, or only in some areas where the ground is dry and hard ?
And whats the benefit over loaders/excavators and dumptrucks/farm tractor with dump trailers ?