r e: Fred's new toys, dirt scoop
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Topic: r e: Fred's new toys, dirt scoop
Posted By: Dean(IA)
Subject: r e: Fred's new toys, dirt scoop
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 4:18pm
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In Iowa, I have always heard the dirt scoop called a slip. I have also heard them called a "Fresno". Is a slip and a Fresno one and the same? The one I had the fun experience of using was the kind where you walked behind it and then flipped the handles up to dump. If you tried to go too deep when you were loading it, it would gladly toss you forward, right over the top. We moved dirt all one day with a slip and an F-14. |
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Posted By: jnicol6600
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 4:32pm
| Its a slip scoop round here. Dont matter what its called its alot of work. |
Posted By: Murph-NC
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 4:40pm
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I believe you've touched on three different styles... - The AC type scoop is most like today's 3pt. style - A Fresno is often called a Tumblebug. It's more of a rolling barrell that you use ropes/levers to trip from the seat of the tractor- The walk-behind style you describe I'm not sure which is the 'slip' style.
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Posted By: GBACBFan
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 8:18pm
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I've always heard the walk behind two handled type referred to as a slusher. ------------- "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Chalmersbob
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2012 at 9:42pm
| My Dad built us a new house in 1939 and dug the basement out with a team of horses and the type of scoop with the handles. It was done in very stoney ground. The basement was 24 X 40 and 8' deep. that doesn't sound like fun. Bob |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 9:40am
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Bob, that was how they did my parents house too. I will have to ask my Mother if she knows what they paid the farmer that did it. Would be interesting.
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Posted By: JohnCinMd
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 10:02am
Here's a pic of my grandfather's dirt scoop. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 10:09am
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Around here the horse drawn ones were called a "slip scrape". My wife's Grandfather helped build Rt 24 and route 136 in Illinois with one of those. He told me once in a while, if you hit a rock just wrong, you could end up in front of the horses on your back. Father in law remembers following the road crew and living in tents. It was a hard life but paid better than no job at all during the depression. I have a tumble bug out back that Dad used when I was a kid. He moved a whole lot of dirt with that behind the CA. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2012 at 10:18am
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Folks house built in 1939 was dug with one and a team of horses also , the guy who dug it then was Aschbach who went on within the family to form a large construction Co in MN doing a lot of road bridges and other construction . Also that family was involved in politics and were members of MN legislature. Site with info on the Fresno scoop. 
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