Euclid was founded in the early 1900s, making hoists, crawlers, and scrapers. It took a couple of decades for its product line to gain traction (ha ha), with success kicked off by a pivot to heavy duty, off road trucks. Its first was the rear-dump Model 1Z, made in 1934 and instantly considered indispensible. A merger with General Motors in 1954 turned sour a few years later when the US Department of Justice filed an anti-trust suit. By the time this Euclid R35 hauler was made, the company had been splintered into multiple pieces, with some product lines changing hands five or six times. Find this handsome brute here on facebook Marketplace for $19,500. Haul it home from Orangeville, Pennsylvania. Rocco B., thanks for the beefy tip!
Most R35s motored with six-cylinder Cummins or Detroit turbo-diesels, good for 400-500 hp – the Detroit producing a scream not easily forgotten. Enormous torque of around 1400 lb-ft and a rigid frame made these trucks perfect for mining. An Allison six-speed automatic gearbox sends power to the rear wheels. The turning radius is about 60′, and it can haul 30 cubic yards of heaped rock. Fully loaded, it will weigh about 65,000 lbs.
The cabin is about as basic as they come, made for one operator and that’s it. The steering wheel looks like a throwback to the 1940s. The seller claims “15,000+” hours, whatever that means, but the upholstery is intact, so bonus points, I guess!
The Euclid nameplate finally faded away in 2004 under Hitachi’s oversight. But stout as they are, I’ll venture a guess that it will be a few more decades before the trucks themselves run out of useful life. This monster is priced right, provided it is mechanically sound. Comparable trucks – and Machinery Trader is featuring several – look worse and cost more. Could you find a use for this serious bit of machinery?
Has BF ever offered Rocco a job ?
Rocco and a few others are great at hunting down stuff.
Looks pretty big, but not the biggest. The biggest are TWICE this size with 2 motors. Still, mighty intimidating, even for a ya-hoo like me. The motor appears to be a Cummins KT19-C or KTA 19, about 450hp(?), and the “total weight” the author mentions, is a bit misleading. I read,( and was mentioned) these have a 30 yard capacity, many times weighing 60,000, or more, AND, don’t forget the weight of the vehicle, comes in at about 51,000, so a GVW( gross vehicle weight) of almost 120,000, it’s a handful. Looks impressive, huh, and it is, however, this is probably one of the most boring jobs. You back up to the hill, some monstrosity shovel( equally as boring) loads you, you go maybe a mile to the portable crusher, dump,,,and repeat,,,all the livin’ long day. The upsides are numerous though, no traffic, no cops, can’t get lost, 3:30pm is quittin’ time. You won’t get rich, typically, pay is about $26/hr., more than I ever made, and there are better paying jobs, but have to deal with all the aforementioned. Up to you. I’ll take this anyday!
In a sidebar, I want to thank the author, stuff like this is great. As far as becoming a truck driver, if I can talk you out of it, my mission will be complete, however, I didn’t listen, and neither will you. Things have never been better for women in trucking today. While I don’t think this job is any place for a lady, OTR companies, starved,,,oops, shouldn’t say that, um, requiring ( that’s better) drivers, they are willing to go to great lengths. Pet policy ( horse may be a bit of a stretch), driver friendly rigs, and while pay is always overstated, with minimal training, ( if needed, I think you could easily shmooze your way in), not many jobs today offer $75,000/yr, or more. With almost 235,000 women drivers in the US alone, it is a viable occupation. Sorry, no time to write for us, can’t write and drive at the same time,,,or shouldn’t.
Maybe I’ll learn trucking as a retirement job. There’s a truck school near me.
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A friend of mine has a niece who decided she wanted to be a truck driver at age 15 or so. She aimed for it unwaveringly over the years and got her license as soon as she was legal. She LOVES the job, and family was very supportive.
There’s no reason you couldn’t drive. Lots of girls driving back when I would hit the road. A lot of husband-wife teams as well. I knew one who was actually a registered nurse and her husband was a tool-push from the oil patch. They bought a truck and criss-crossed the country for close to 10 years before he decided it was time to completely retire and she headed back to the ER.
Lady truck drivers ain’t nothing new, one came through the shop 45 years ago when we were both in our twenties, tried to get her to take me along as a ride-along mechanic, all she was interested in was making money solo.(sigh)
Since the PM thing doesn’t co-operate, just a few things. If you are interested in that, I strongly recommend to stay away from schools. They are not unlike “puppy mills”, and there is a better way. Many trucking companies offer a training program in house, and several advantages to that. 1) they truly want you to succeed, and many times, you can “work off” the school debt. 2) You have a guaranteed job waiting, unlike a school where once completed, you may be on your own. 3) I’ve heard nightmares of students paying a lot of money, only to find out a certain company wants their own training.
If you are really interested, a site called “The Truckers Report”, literally a wealth of knowledge, along with some lunkheads,(me) but when I started trucking, it was trial and error. I’d(we’d) have killed for a site like that. With modern amenities, like GPS, communication, rolling apartments with automatics,, it’s an entirely different job than when I was trucking. Also, it’s not good old Farmer Brown in IH 4300s during the off season. Unfortunately, with that simplicity, it attracts a much wider group, some not so nice. I never had the reason to carry one, but a weapon or spray is clearly needed. As many women that are out there, it seems their #1 concern is safety, and rightly so. I’d be happy to answer any questions, “off camera”, if you want and can. :)
99% of all Euclid’s have DD engines, as does this one, you can tell by the color. Absolutely NONE of the modern Super Haulers have 2 engines!!! In fact, I only know of one, and that is the last known existing massive TEREX GM 33-15 tandem axle mine truck from the late ’70’s-early ’80’s, that is on display at the Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) compound in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Wow, you know everything!!!
When I took some Heavy Equipment operator training, instructor told me best student he had ever on the grader was a girl from Newfoundland. Unbelievable touch he said.
peanuts: incomes must B down locally:The West ($94,650) and Northeast ($92,000)…
The 92 series Detroit is a two-stroke diesel engine. Very unique sounding.
This is one of those vehicles that……. You go to a bar…….. You start an argument with someone saying….. “My Trucks bigger than your truck”…… And then step outside….. And Win!!!!! (Except I don’t know if you could legally run this on the road?)
Cool dump truck!!! I know nothing about these. But sure wouldn’t mind getting a chance to run one around a bit.
As always, thanks Michelle!!! And Rocco for finding this beast.
All right, folks, I don’t know what you would really do with this but it looks like a lot of fun doing it. What would you do with a truck like this? Well, if you and the neighbor had a dispute, you could park it on his driveway. This looks like the beginning of a contest of “Mine’s Bigger Than Yours.” Let me start with a pic from a coal mining town in the mountains of southeast British Columbia.
This truck, a great grandson of the feature, was powered by an EMD 3600 hp locomotive engine and is rated for 200 tons. It was put to work and soon found that it was simply too big to do the job properly; a lot of frame failures, simply because it flexed in the turns coming down from the mountain. They switched back to single axle machines, in the form of Titan 170s, powered by Detroit 16V149 engines rated at 1200-1600 hp, and now run a fleet of Cat 797s, a tad smaller yet.
Let’s see you get into an argument on the freeway with one of these…
This beast is a one of a kind machine. It is the only one on the planet. Many of the parts used to build it were bespoke.
My wife and I stopped by at Sparwood, to revisit the truck two weeks ago. Sparwood has added a lot of info signage, and made it a world class attraction.
It got retired in 1979, when the rig cooked a turbocharger, and it was prohibitively expensive to get a new unit manufactured, so it got parked.
Worthwhile to stop and see it in person.
When my MIL lived in the lower mainland, we used to drive out there to visit them. That truck has long been a permanent resident there.
I remember when they first parked it there; it was still painted in company colors (red/yellow/blue???). Of course, skuttlebutt says that the company no longer exists. But I wish I could’ve gotten a picture back then…
Here’s another pic of that truck.
Correction, only one LEFT!!!! There were a few of these in Canada, but this is the sole, remaining survivor, as is the TEREX GM 33-15.
I’d drop an El Camino body on it.
Everyone should have one of these! Great for hauling mulch for the flower beds and with 600,000 miles it’s just getting broke in!
That is a very short description by the seller. They even have ears of corn for sale.
I can guarantee right now there is a owner of a ford pickup that is saying my truck will haul more than that big SOB !!!
I had a friend like that; he was convinced that Ford invented the truck, and Honda invented the motorcycle. I had a Norton and he pestered me to no end to race him on his new 750 Honda; I made him look pretty bad, and he just kept riding after that race. That was nearly 50 years ago and he hasn’t spoken to me since…
Will it fit in a two car garage? Asking for a friend😁
Might need to use a shoe-horn, but anything is possible…
Depends on how much garage you need to remain standing after you drive it in there.
Good Grief!!! This is hilarious. I needed a good laugh today!! Geomechs wins!!!! Bigest truck hands down.
And…
No worries, I don’t think anyone will even find the garage if you parked that monster in or more like on top of it.
Great stuff. I really did need a good laugh today. Thanks!!!
Did you say in or on?
I would love to rent one for the week I move out of this HOA neighborhood!
The deal breaker for me is no A/C. What about heat? My goodness what good payback this could do for One season hauling rocks. Then I’d hire it out to bring tiny houses into places outta the way. Time to make friends with an east coast player, have a big-tools garage, and a reliable large flatbed hauler.
A Soccer Mom will probably buy this to impress the other Mom’s.
Reminds me of the Tonka truck I had as a kid, and still have. Back when they were metal, not pop tin.
You cant tell me some mining outfit cant use such a truck. It needs a good home.
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Good post Michelle, and lots of fun comments. This brought back to mind something I hadn’t thought about in decades. A couple oil wells my dad worked on were in, or near, a rock quarry. Grade-school-age me was fascinated by the haul trucks in use. I assume they were Euclids, seems like they were smaller than this model. This would have been in the 60’s.
Actually drove the twin to that truck in a Rock Quarry in Connecticut. Up the mountain down the mountain…all day long. The biggest problem was staying awake. Coming down the mountain 75,000 lbs with a 10% grade is no joke. Do it wrong you won’t be around to tell anybody about it!!! You got to fight the boredom. Thank it was just a temporary job.
I would build a tiny home in the dump bed and then go live anywhere on the continent i wanted to.
Matt @Diesel Creek needs this for at Brownsville!!! It’d go perfect with his old Cat 245 front shovel.
Make a 2 story Motor home out of it!
You didn’t find that in no “Barn”
I grew up in Euclid, Ohio. My parents would drive by the plant and there were always a couple of earth movers parked outside. They were very impressive- especially to a ten year old!
Is it even possible to transport this down the highway without a disassembly? Pretty good price if the condition is as good as it looks.
I’ve ran a Euclid R60 for a day probably 10 or 11 years ago. 900hp cummins and 200,000 gvw. It’s the biggest dump truck operated.