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Northwest 78 Dragline.

  • 10/15/2018 12:40 AM
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    Message # 6726999
    Robert Redman

    Does anyone have any recollections of these machines?

    The number apparently refers to the weight at around 78000 lbs, mine is about a 1943 model with a Murphy motor.

    Not much info out there, hoping someone can help.

    Thanks,

    Rob Redman. 
  • 11/15/2018 6:24 PM
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    Reply # 6909812 on 6726999
    Don Williams

    The Northwest 78 was first manufactured from 1931 to 1943 and was a 2 yard shovel front.  Not sure what size bucket the dragline had.  There is a little information in Northwest Engineering Company A photographic Archive Collectin Volumne 2 by M.E. Folsom & M. Torres which is where I got those manufacturing years from. 
  • 10/02/2022 1:40 AM
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    Reply # 12939384 on 6909812
    Anonymous
    Don Williams wrote:

    The Northwest 78 was first manufactured from 1931 to 1943 and was a 2 yard shovel front.  Not sure what size bucket the dragline had.  There is a little information in Northwest Engineering Company A photographic Archive Collectin Volumne 2 by M.E. Folsom & M. Torres which is where I got those manufacturing years from. 

    hello i have army book northwest 78 build in 1943.
  • 10/07/2022 11:30 AM
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    Reply # 12946089 on 12939384
    Don Williams
    Jurgen Jureen wrote:
    Don Williams wrote:

    The Northwest 78 was first manufactured from 1931 to 1943 and was a 2 yard shovel front.  Not sure what size bucket the dragline had.  There is a little information in Northwest Engineering Company A photographic Archive Collectin Volumne 2 by M.E. Folsom & M. Torres which is where I got those manufacturing years from. 

    hello i have army book northwest 78 build in 1943.
    That's a real coincidence.  When I was just out of high school I was an oiler on a 1953 Navy surplus 80D and there was an army technical manual in the back when I started working and I almost memorized it during the two months I was working there before going into the army.

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