Here is a decent size tow truck...what other pics of similar equipment have you guys got? 797 getting towed.......
That's cool. Our mine uses a 789 for a tow truck. I put pictures on here some where :beatsme darned if I can remember where.
I always wondered how such vehicles were recovered.
I took these at the Bingham Copper Mine in Utah a couple years ago. I'm assuming the hauler is a 793. The hoe is a 385.
Jason wouldn't be easier to just track the hoe? Or were they taking it pretty far in the mine?
Good pics, thanks
I think it was about an hour later when I looked all the way down in the bottom of the pit and saw them unloading it. So I think they moved it a ways!
Now that's a trailer, that you can side load a 385, keep the tracks perpendicular to the deck and still not have much, if any, track hanging off the side.:cool2
410 ton trailer Here is a Mine Ranger 410 ton capacity trailer being delivered to a minesite in Central Queensland. Tractor unit is a new 793. The trailer has 793 wheel-ends fitted with oil cooled brakes. A 4 cyl Perkins diesel engine circulates the oil through the brakes and coolers. The last 2 photos show a Drill-tec drill being transported. The largest load I have seen being moved on this rig is a Cat 5235 excavator. John
I get that the Rear End has Oil Cooled Brakes but is it Driven?
Is that a quick hitch at the front and loading ramps at the front? If that is so it would eliminate screwing around and backing into loading ramps with a load on.
The trailer has oil cooled brakes only - no drive. The 50hp Perkins would not give much tractive effort. Yes, it has a quick hitch on the gooseneck for loading. The rear engine supplies hydraulic power to work the ramps.
This is our big low loader. 350 ton trailer pulled by a 777. That is a Hitachi 3600 on the back. The pics are approaching #2 on the back #3 looking down on the prime mover from the back deck of the excavator.
Wowsers !! muzy
It's funny, that first truck was my old truck when I started up here....before they turned it into a tow truck that is.
Great pics...
YouTube - Iron Mike Crane was said to weigh over 600ton.maybe when assembled...
that cant be good for the kw in the middle
No kidding there is a thread here somewhere of one in 2 pieces from being towed
Near Orange NSW
Burnt shovel moved
Nice pics:thumbsup
Good picts. Talk about taking the hoe just down the road!!:roll
nothing beats heavy haulage but looks like most of the photos are from australia is there any from other countries?
Thanks A bunch guys... AMAZING work you guys do! Always makes me smile when I see big rigs DWARFED by BIGGER!!!!!
foooookiiinnnggg helll,those are big!
The trucks in the earlier post that where former dump trucks, do they just take the most worn out unit and turn them into a tow truck or lowboy tracktor or is there more to it then that?
Typically, we don't choose the most worn out truck, but pick a truck that is close to the end of it's service life, and have it rebuilt. Once it's been rebuilt, then we outfit it with whatever we need to do the job we assign it to.
you shared really good pix. my grand Father had fond of purchasing different kinds of trucks for their construction and manufacturing industry.
Here is how they moved my Td14 out of my yard thought it was a good fit for the thread. Not the biggest Towtruck but It picked the old 14 up and walked across the yard with it. Pics aren't the greatest only had the phone
Here is an aerial view of two haulers in use at a Queensland mine site. If you look carefully, a Cat D11 can be seen on the larger float - a 400 ton MineRanger pulled by a Cat 793. The smaller unit is a 160 ton float built by Bosich and pulled by a new Cat 777F.
http://www.draketrailers.com/index.php/mine-site drake make some of these trailers they almost appear to be a standard product in the range
that D11 looks so small when it gets into mine sites . put them near civil gear they look huge put them near some big face shovels and dump trucks they are the small boys on the site
The Mammoet website has some interesting heavy movement articles, pics and videos. Here's one about moving a 515 tonne Hitachi mining shovel in Canada. http://www.mammoet.com/en/USA/News-Media/Mining-references/Mining-reference-cases/CanadiaShovel/ There's 3 pages containing 15 videos of heavy movements, recoveries, and even ship cargo salvage on the Mammoet site.
Good stuff Ozdozer
Moving stuff on mine sites is relatively easy in my experience. Moving them on highways is a somewhat more difficult challenge. Just saying like ............. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNyQ0xZ6mY
Wow! It is pics like these that show outsiders how big some mining equipment really is, thank you................:drinkup
Very awesome pictures!
Here are a few shots from the web of Suncor's "new" (old haul truck) 797 tow truck.
Its about time they replaced the old titan/wabco/whatever the slow old beast was.
That's one hell of a tow truck!
re living an old thread, but I thought this was worth it. Here are some photos I was sent today by a mate who was working in the Pilbara West Aus, if you need it moved there is always a way. Bit of Horsepower on display. Sealed roads are a welcome option...... Hope the photos work
Fred that is impressive!
Excellent pics there, Fred. That Liebherr R996B runs around 672 tonnes/1,480,000 lbs, just to give an idea of weight. Those platform trailers are the greatest invention of all time. Saw one setup in an oil-platform fabrication yard, where they were moving a 20,000 tonne oil & gas structure, on platform trailers!
Any idea on how far they were moving it?
Bit over 130km I'm told, not sure why Lead to believe Christmas Creek to Solomon Minesites, which thinking about it wont mean anything unless you are lucky enough to live in West Aus. ;-)
Here are some photos of the chain down of machine. Don't want this big girl coming off!!
I can honestly say that if that excavator decided it wanted to move no amount of chains is going to stop it, I don't care how many you put on there .....!! IMHO the chains are for show so that it keeps the Safety germs happy.
I agree with nige, nothing short of anchor chain would stop it from moving, and then the trailer would fail. Very impressive nonetheless!
I received these photos in an email today too. Here are some more details on moving this Liebher that were in the email. "This is the biggest load to be moved in West Australia. It weighed over 700 tons with four trucks towing and two pushing it on the gravel. They were travelling at 4 Km’s per hour on the gravel reaching 6km’s hour on the bitumen, the distance to the new mine is 230 Km’s they drove up to 15 hours a day taking 6 days to reach their destination (this also included becoming bogged with four front end loaders having trouble pulling it out) " I am working in this same area and the largest load I have seen being moved on a public road was an almost complete Komatsu WA1200 front end loader. Only the cab had been removed to reduce the overall heigth a little. This would have weighed around 220 tons.
WA1200 and 994 would be about the same weight. Only difference was we used to leave the cab on. See the photos in my post on the previous page. Furthest we moved a 994 in that condition was just under 1000km and we regularly moved them 2-300km in a ready to work condition.
Leibheir 996 on the move Here is another 996 being moved in the Pilbara recently
It's amazing what you mine guys will/can do to run as efficiently as possible.
I'm surprised the platform trailer could handle that much beaming/bridging load with the tracks across the deck like that. There sure is a lot of weight over the 10 rows of axles between the front tack and the end of the counterweight support. There are 6 rows between the bucket and the front track.
I disagree. The chains aren't to arrest movement, they are to keep movement from beginning. Once something has started to move, nothing is going to stop it. But by keeping even a little force applied against movement in the opposite direction force is going to be applied, the load won't start to move in the first place. That's what the chains are there for. If the force is large enough, the load is going to go, but small forces applied to the load where it may creep a little, will be held in check. Those small movements are what become big problems, really fast, as they tend to compound into a full on slide.
I would tend to agree with your disagreement.
I agree as well. In a serious event, the chains will break, but for keeping small movements from becoming large ones, they will do just fine.
Apparently Downer EDI are going to move the R9800 from Xmas Creek to Roy Hill in one piece in the very near future
we need pic's :yup
Does anyone remember the bad old days when you could be driving down the haul road and coming towards you,you see a 773 with a 9L sitting in the back I did a lot of line boring on one site where it was common enough. The go was to put enough dirt in the body to give a level platform and track the dozer on off a bench.
Well mobile phones and cameras are banned on site. If there is any authorised photos floating about I shall see if I can get hold of a copy