SGT FURY
Senior Member
It was given to me by a real estate agent. It's been abandoned on property for several years. Rusted and frozen up. It will scrap for about 5K. If you know somebody who can use something from it? It's got a few weeks before I start cutting it up
That piece of machinery has a heritage, and seems to have a collector market .. dunno how active though. Maybe that model list below can help ID it?
source: https://tractors.fandom.com/wiki/Hanson_Clutch_and_Machinery_Co.
Hanson Clutch and Machinery Co.
The Hanson Clutch and Machinery Company was founded in 1914 by two brothers in Tiffin, Ohio, USA as a manufacturer of clutches.
The company introduced its first excavator in 1924. the company was taken over by Pettibone-Mullikene Corporation of Chicago. The company survives as the Tiffin Parts, LLC.
Founded in 1914 by brothers Milton and Clifford Hanson to manufacture there patented clutch design.
In 1924 Milton retired and Clifford took control of the company. Then in 1924 the company then introduced the first excavator, using there own clutches, in a 3/8 cu yd crawler excavator, powered by a petrol engine.
The company claimed it was the first excavator of this type built in the USA. At this time most excavators were still Steam shovels.
In 1963 the company was sold to an MBO and renamed the Hanson Machinery Company.
The Pettibone-Mulliken Corporation of Chicago then bought the firm in 1966, and droped excavator manufacture but continued building cranes at the Tiffin facility for a few years before switching it to be a parts facility.
Model range
- 3/8 yd excavator - 1924 - McCormick-Deering petrol engine
- Hanson model 28 3/8 yd
- Hanson model 22 - 1/4 cu yd
- Hanson model 33 - 3/8 cu yd
- Hanson model 44 - 1/2 cu yd
- Hanson model 55 - 5/8 cu yd
- Hanson model 66 - 3/4 cu yd
- Hanson model 30 comet - 1938 with hydraulic control of clutches.
- Hanson model 31 - 3/8 yd
- Hanson model 41 - 1/2 yd of 1944
- Hanson model 61 - 3/4 yd
- Hanson model 254 - 3/8 yd of 1954
- Hanson model 354 - 1/2 yd of 1954
- Hanson model 454 - 1/2 yd HD
- Hanson model 654 - 3/4 yd Universal excavator.