Saw these on the way home from work this morning. The plastic wrapped bit looks like the boom mount and lift ram mounts points.
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O Oo O O O O O IL'LL Have One
Be Jeez thats the biggest trailer I ever see a Transit pulling, you Auzzies sure know how to freight a load :notworthy
Really? How do they move your hoes? Here's mine minus 12tons of counterweight (second truck).
well saw this on my way home!!! not as big as you lot but
i did a double take first time i saw that photo too :cool2
Tires Good lord, how many tires are on that thing?
They don't move your 385 around in one piece? Ours get floated to Ft Crack as one unit, less the bucket.
Yeah i saw that 385 here. How olds the 1250 thats here? not a mark on the counterweight. noticed it today for the first time.
Shifting a load. Hi, AtlasRob. I have a video of a float move from Gladstone wharf to Callide power station here in Queensland. The load was a stator for a generator and weighed 186 tonnes. It was transported on two steerable bogies of 12 rows of eight dual-tired wheels with beams between the two bogies and bearers pinned to the underside of the beams. The stator rested on these bearers. The whole issue was pulled/pushed by 4 x 500 hp prime movers - road tractors or tractor-trucks to some - and, in at least one place, they had a Cat 988A 4wd loader and 2 x Cat 140G graders pulling as well to get over one hill. The silly twits only had 10 tonnes of traction weight on each prime mover instead of 15 tonnes or so and they had 1, repeat ONE prime mover pulling and the other 3 pushing at the rear. Even I know that a truck/prime mover will always pull more than it will push and I'm NOT a steering wheel attendant (Zoological name: Steerus Retardii. LOL.). By the look of the blue colour of those floats, they probably belonged to Lampson. Lampson has several sets of powered modules for moving heavy loads. They can virtually string together as many of these modules as they need to handle the load being moved. Interesting technology. I believe Mammoet has simlar equipment.
How many 385's are there? We should have 2 there still as far as I know. The 1250 is brand new. They just bought it this spring. There is a second one to go with it, but its back at Coneco here in Edmonton awaiting parts. I'm thinkin the slow boat bringin em over has a Komatsu engine in it.... takes forever to get here. As for 385's there are 2 brand spanking new ones sitting here at Finning.
Nope ours gets the counterweight removed but the bucket stays as it can get low enough (shortest stick availible). The long stick they take the counterweight and the bucket off (bucket cause they cant get it low enough). I suspect this is due to the weight restrictions inside the city of Calgary vs going straight up the highway that was designed for all the shizzle going up to ft. crack.
today/9 OCT This is how we move the 3600, about 350 ton, the ol 777 sure does earn its pay.#1 walking past to the loading ramp.#2 it does fit.#3 from the back deck of the 3600.#4 thanks see ya later.
#3 & #4
awesome pics guys
dang those are huge
When we move the 85's int he city they go the same way. Buckets on another float, the entire hoe goes on the big trailer but we unpin the stick cylinder so that the stick tucks up enough for height restrictions, but its the longest stick available. Even with our short stick machines they have to unpin the cylinder to get her tucked up enough. Does your hoe have a quick attach on it? I kind of wondered if thats why we move our 85's that way, we can pull the bucket off in 30 seconds.
hey have u guys seen any camp jobs in alberta, if u do send them my way thanks guy oh and awsome videos once i get out thier im going to start making some
No sir, pinned in. Every time they move my machine they are convinced they have to either unpin the stick or the bucket to get it lower. And every time I tell them "nope it fits the way it is", but no one ever believes me until I tuck it in and they measure. You would think after moving it so many times they would start to remember? It's got the shortest stick they make (2.9m quarry) and you have to curl the bucket all the way then stick right in until the teeth touch the bottom of the boom, but we get under by a good 5-6 inches every time. The "long stick" (which is really just a normal stick) I think they just unpin the main bucket pin then slide the bucket between the tracks with the wishbone/linkage still attached. They figure its easier that way then doing the stick.
WOW :cool2:notworthy