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This is a compactor machine. They are used to pack dirt and roadbed materials for road foundation.
These machined have been around almost forever it seems. I remember seeing them in my early childhood years.
They typically had five wheels in front, and four wheels in back. The sets of wheels were staggered so no dirt in the machine's path escaped being compacted.

This particular machine depicted is from that time era of the 1950s and early 1960s, thus why it does not have overhead protection.

After I get the story 'Clarence Coyote and Project Courier' completed, I will do a revised edition or two of this machine with an anthro-animal operating it.

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new mexico 298, year 1960 284, compaction machine 1, heavy equipment 1

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Published: 5 years, 7 months ago

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Bahlam

5 years, 7 months ago

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I haven't seen that type in a long time. The ones I remember from when I was very little were huge with a single roller in the front with a water fill plug and a massive diesel engine. They used a tar sprayer truck and spread gravel on top of it with rakes. In the summer the heat brought the tar bubbling up so your shoes left tracks impressed in it. The stuff piled up year after year and shifted and there were always horrible potholes after one winter. They didn't grind away the asphalt like they do now.

Today in upstate NY I mostly see Lee-Boy pavers and rollers with rubber wheels in back and pretty often little robotic rollers.

Zagroseckt

5 years, 7 months ago

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Oddly more than you'd think

mind you it's more prevelent in ruil settings as it's what they use to referbish dirt / gravil roads

but i've seen them being used even in the city. well more the double cylinder version (looks like a small steam roller but it's not hot)

Genrilly trumbling along behind a steamroller with the line painter inbetween.

now i'd say theve gotten a bit smaller to fit on a flatbed easer. but a few of the big boys still exist

Failuremaster

5 years, 7 months ago

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Never seen 1in my life

moyomongoose

5 years, 7 months ago

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Edited 5 years, 7 months ago by Owner

@ Failuremaster

Not long after we came to the U.S., before I turned age 6, I was out riding with my mom and we saw one of those machines.
I asked my mom, "Mama, what is that thing".
And she replied, "It is a Mister Hundred Wheeler".

BTW...I've got one of those machines being called "a Mr. 100 Wheeler" depicted in the most recent part of the story I got going.

And thanks for the fave.

Failuremaster

5 years, 7 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

No problem you always have something interesting to show and talk about.

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