Fresno?

No, I'm not moving to California just yet!

I can't find the thread, but a few weeks back someone posted about finding a strange piece of abandoned equipment and wondering what it was. I found this photo of excavation work being done on an airstrip in southern Canada about 90-years ago. Apparently, the piece is called a Fresno or Fresnoe.

The picture makes it obvious how it was used.

My Dad had one that he used for cleaning manure out of the corals in the spring.

My dad and I used a Fresno to dig out a hillside for our new house in 1960. No horses though, only a little Fordson tractor!

Tom Jones said:

My dad and I used a Fresno to dig out a hillside for our new house in 1960. No horses though, only a little Fordson tractor!

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I patched terraces with one on on a Ford tractor when I was a kid...my boss called it a tumble bug..

https://www.supercub.org/forum/showthread.php?60566-Identify-this-piece-of-machinery

Gary

Believe it or not, you could still find a variant of the Fresno scoop at New Holland dealers up until just a few years ago. Maybe still at older dealerships, under the Ford name from when Ford owned New Holland. They had a trip handle the driver could reach but still a tip over scoop and they sold pretty well at the time.
Even though I worked for a New Holland dealer once, I never could find out why it was called a Fresno, even asked a dealer in Fresno, CA. That was all more energy than the answer was worth to me.

Ken