That dramatic 70's music! They just don't make machines and documentaries like this nowadays. Excellent presentation Jim.

I ran one , back in the day, in Atlanta. Laid a mile of 60 inch gravity 30 ft. deep, on mats the while way. It's something to talk about now.

Boy oh boy, those 10 wheelers were taking a beating!!

I was a mechanic for 30 years and started working on Koehring in 1968 till about 1987. Worked for The Earle Equipment in Romulus, MI. Then moved to Texas where I worked for Waukesha Pierce both of these companies were Koehring and Bantam Dealers. Bantam was a division of Koehring. Best days of my life. And yes the controls were a little hard to get used to.

Everything about this is nineteen seventy glorious.

I broke out running a triple 6 in 1970. It took a couple weeks to get my thumbs in shape. The bucket and crowd were controlled with your thumbs. Controls were air over hydraulic.

And just like that the hydraulic excavator replaced and made all other machines obsolete lol

My father worked as a computer operator in the Concordia plant in Milwaukee from the early 1970s into the 80s. I remember seeing this film at one of the family day events the company held out in Oconomowoc, then being bussed out to the proving ground to see the full product line of Koehring, Bantam, and Loraine lined up. Pretty overwhelming for an eight or so year-old engineerling.

Thanks for posting this,what a treat!!! Noticed the big Koehrings tend to leak out of end stick cylinder rod seal a bit.

My dad owned a 666

Loved seeing all those Ford tandem dump trucks. Brought a tear to my eye seeing them.

Remember encountering a very large Koerhing 1466 back in 1982 & 83 in Boston on a subway relocation project.

In the early 90s I worked for a company that had a 466 and a 666 Koehring. Both machines had a huge number of hours, but their combination of weight and reach kept them around for deep bridge footings.

Thanks Jim great video. My father-in-law and I used to watch the 1466 everyday on the way home from work. It was the Camden County New Jersey municipal sewage Authority project in Southern New Jersey. The name of the company was Cruz Construction. We never saw a machine with that type of reach the setup was extraordinary. Again thanks for posting this video

This entire video reminds me of KZfaq Gold!

I loved heavy equipment as a kid in the 80s and still do. I haven't seen a Koehring in many years. Link Belt was another brand I never see anymore. Cat 977 track loaders we're everywhere back then too, that is a rare machine to see nowadays. I remember so much equipment I loved that is all gone now. The John Deere track loaders with the backhoe attachments, and Barber Greene bucket wheel trenchers.

worked for Recon for a summer, they had a couple of the big ones 1466 s with a pair buzzin dozens ( 12V71 detroit)

These exact 4 machines ended up in NJ and were rebuilt by LBSmith who I worked for.

Absolutely awesome video Jim. Thanks for posting it. The Koehring 1266d is my all time favorite excavator. I watched one working in NJ meadowlands digging a 40 foot deep pit as part of a waste transfer station project. That project took place in the mid 1980’s.That machine was a real beast. I’m pretty sure that a fully spec’d out 1266d had a 266,000 lbs.operating weight. As you know Jim, Koehring produced the even bigger model 1466.The 1466 was available as a front shovel or backhoe configuration. The operating weight on the shovel was 308,000 lbs. and for the backhoe 292,000 lbs. Thanks Again.

I like watching these old videos. Thanks for posting