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.
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…
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!