This Caterpillar 623 is a motor scraper — sometimes called an elevating scraper or earth scraper — a self-propelled earthmoving machine designed to cut, carry, and spread large volumes of soil and material across a site in a single pass. Motor scrapers are a staple of large-scale grading, land levelling, road building, and earthworks operations where high-volume material movement is required. Caterpillar is one of the world's most widely recognised manufacturers of heavy construction and earthmoving equipment, with a long history of building machinery for construction, mining, quarrying, and infrastructure industries.
This 1974 machine is offered in used condition and is located in California, USA. According to the seller, the unit runs and drives, and was last put to work on a river bar — an application consistent with the kind of alluvial material handling and waterway-adjacent earthworks that motor scrapers are well suited to.
Seller detail on this listing is limited to operational status and last use, so specific configuration, bowl capacity, engine hours, and component condition beyond what is stated are not known. The machine is priced at $12,000.
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