What's a "high lift?"

bcp · Feb 2, 2015

I haven't heard the term in the NW.

Several news articles mentioned using high-lifts and snowplows to clear streets in the NE US.

One "high-lift" picture showed an articulated wheel loader loading dump trucks. Another with a "high-lift" caption showed an excavator loading a truck.

Google images doesn't help.

snow high-lift photos

Bruce

LD1 · Feb 2, 2015

I have not heard that term here in the midwest either

tow653 · Feb 2, 2015

A high lift around here refers to a tracked loader with a bucket rather than a blade,which makes it a bull dozer. Think a Cat 933 is an example.it is just looked up.

bcp · Feb 2, 2015

The first article calls it a truck, another a payloader or a front-loader
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Buffalo News-Nov 19, 2014
The town contracted for special high-lift trucks coming from the Albany area. ... The trucks will be used 24 hours a day to load the snow and then ...
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Bee news.com-Nov 20, 2014
Most of the neighborhood was still buried in snow at this time. ... We are using high-lift [plows] to punch through the roads, and the plow trucks ...
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Buffalo News-Nov 21, 2014
That glimpse of sunlight didn't last long as the snow returned with a fury ... no cars stranded, then a high-lift and then a plow go down the street.
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Buffalo News-Nov 29, 2014
With the ferocious storm dropping snow at a rate of 4, 5, even 6 inches ... The Wegmans high-lift driver steered the giant payloader down to the ...
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Albany Times Union-Nov 23, 2014
But the ocean of snow seemed to be starting to subside Friday as high-lift front-loaders were able to make at least one if not two passes through ...

RedNeckRacin · Feb 2, 2015

High-lifts are either the articulating loaders or track loaders. (Lots of strip mining used to be around this area.)

nybirdman · Feb 2, 2015

We call them "Pay-loaders " in our area.Used to load large dump trucks.Lots of farmers use them for feed uses.

Wasted Income · Feb 2, 2015

The "correct" nomenclature per my employer is "wheel loader" and "track loader".

bcp · Feb 2, 2015

This what I though a "high lift" would be when I asked the question, since one of the first articles I saw called it a truck.

Dump truck with loader would be most similar to a plow dump truck, but would lift the snow over into the bed instead push it to the side.