More scrapers

For those of you who could care less about construction equipment, you should probably just skip this post. :) Here's more pictures of scrapers. They were really close the other day.

Here's some fun tid-bits of info about the ones we saw: They are CAT 637E's. They run about $600, 000 each. The "E" means that it's a nicer model---kinda like going from a Ford to a Mercury--it just adds money to the price tag. On any given day, there's about 20 of these sitting 3 houses down (among other equipment). And all of this info I got from Pete (Andy's bropther) who works for CAT and works on scrapers such as these. He works with the motors and their emissions. Thanks Pete, hopefully I got everything right!

This is a picture of the scrapers from our swing set.

Scrapers have the unique ability to attach and "train" together.

We got to witness it first hand. It was kinda fun to watch one of them get stuck and the other pull it out. Sometimes a bulldozer helped push. :)

Here's another picture of them hooked together.

Big dump trucks--something else to watch.