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Old “Green Lizard” fired up

Thu 23 Feb 2017

Old “Green Lizard” fired up

Chris Guins is an American guy who has a phenomenal following on his letsdig18 You Tube channel and while browsing over the weekend I came across this new video from Chris featuring his mate’s classic Terex TS-14 motor scraper being fired up and put through its paces. These old machines and older Euclid’s before them were affectionately known as green lizards for obvious reasons, but most people remember them for the screaming noise emitted from the twin Detroit Diesel engines that were fitted on them. Probably not such a great sound if you were sat in the seat next to that exhaust stack every day and from what I am told these machines were not the most comfortable of things to ride on as they were not fitted with a cushion hitch arrangement like on later Caterpillar models, something that also gained these machines the unenviable nickname of the “back breakers”! Any way check out this video and watch the old girl in action as she rides again.
 

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