This is supposed to be the biggest load ever to be moved in Western Australia, it weighed over 700 tons with four trucks towing and two pushing it on the gravel, they were travelling at 4 Kms per hour on the gravel reaching 6kms hour on the bitumen, the distance to the new mine is 230 Kms.
They drove up to 15 hours a day taking 6 days to reach their destination.
This is the trip between Christmas Creek Mine to Turkey Creek Mine.
Mr Neville Power the CEO for Fortescue Metals confirmed a successful completion of the task.
It was successful and saved all the time and cost of disassembly and reassembly.
On the hill up to the mine they took the excavator off the low loader and walked it up the hill then reloaded it at the top.
Cheers - John
Santa said
11:51 AM Aug 31, 2014
Very impressive load John, one I wouldn't particularly want to get stuck behind.
Yuglamron said
11:54 AM Aug 31, 2014
Many years ago I worked in Scotland building Oil production platforms for the North Sea. During the manufacture of the first platform they decided to move an 800 tonne load by road. They forgot to double check the height and they hit the Main power transmission lines for Scotland Took out the power for over half of Scotland. I cannot remember how long it took to travel the three hundred miles to deliver the load. It took them six days for the drivers to qualify for night out money.
The main load was on a bogie that was partially a hovercraft. Similar set up for the tow trucks four up front two behind and one huge compressor for the hovercraft section.
They learnt from their mistakes and went by sea after the first trip.
Vic41 said
12:12 PM Aug 31, 2014
Holy Hell that's some load!
Gerty Dancer said
01:22 PM Aug 31, 2014
Wow!!! How would you "walk" an excavator up a hill??
Dougwe said
01:41 PM Aug 31, 2014
How big is that hey. Maybe it was a Transformer and turned into a 50ft robot like monster and "walked" up the hill.
I am glad I didn't come across that beast on a narrow road and I tell you that for free.
Vic41 said
02:03 PM Aug 31, 2014
Gerty Dancer wrote:
Wow!!! How would you "walk" an excavator up a hill??
That's a plant operators term for moving a piece of plant machinery from one place to another (not on a truck) Gerty.....
(that is, driving it somewhere with it's own power)
-- Edited by Vic41 on Sunday 31st of August 2014 02:10:06 PM
bab600 said
02:38 PM Aug 31, 2014
I hope the shackles were the correct ones and what about the mirrors???
Fuel consumption and would you ask for a drive thru site if you staying overnight ....... Ha ha ha ha ha
Regards Brian
Dougwe said
03:09 PM Aug 31, 2014
Hope they didn't overstay any free camps
Edit....Wombat must have hacked into my poota again and said that
-- Edited by Dougwe on Sunday 31st of August 2014 03:10:40 PM
Pejay said
03:47 PM Aug 31, 2014
Makes asking the pilot vehicle how wide the load is a bit of an understatement doesn't it?
ShortNorth said
08:29 PM Aug 31, 2014
Hey, I'm putting in a new slab next weekend on the front lawn to park the Aliner on - gee ! if I had that instead of a Bobcat, I'd scoop out the slab area in one go !!!
jules47 said
10:38 AM Sep 1, 2014
Wow - that is HUGE! We were "ushered" off the road outside Cloncurry last year by the police to allow a load through, that was heading up into the Gulf area - it took the complete road, including the gravel sides!!! - we ended up in long grass about 4metres of the road!
The Hats said
11:47 AM Sep 1, 2014
This pic was taken on the Barrier Hi-way the load was part of a rig. The module on which it was carried has 20 rows of 8 wheels, weighed 83 ton on is own. The Mac Super liners had the 500hp V8 with a 12 speed gearbox with a 4 speed under drive joey box =48 gears the diffs were a planetary dive units, gear bound to 90kph.
The rig weighed 575 tons. the photo was taken by on of the lead pilots we had three forward pilots as well and 2 police cars forward, thee pilots rear and one police car rear. our average speed was about 30-40kph.
I posted this on a forum a few years ago and it has ended up on the internet on several different site.
Gday...
This is supposed to be the biggest load ever to be moved in Western Australia, it weighed over 700 tons with four trucks towing and two pushing it on the gravel, they were travelling at 4 Kms per hour on the gravel reaching 6kms hour on the bitumen, the distance to the new mine is 230 Kms.
They drove up to 15 hours a day taking 6 days to reach their destination.
This is the trip between Christmas Creek Mine to Turkey Creek Mine.
Mr Neville Power the CEO for Fortescue Metals confirmed a successful completion of the task.
It was successful and saved all the time and cost of disassembly and reassembly.
On the hill up to the mine they took the excavator off the low loader and walked it up the hill then reloaded it at the top.
Cheers - John
Very impressive load John, one I wouldn't particularly want to get stuck behind.
Many years ago I worked in Scotland building Oil production platforms for the North Sea. During the manufacture of the first platform they decided to move an 800 tonne load by road. They forgot to double check the height and they hit the Main power transmission lines for Scotland Took out the power for over half of Scotland. I cannot remember how long it took to travel the three hundred miles to deliver the load. It took them six days for the drivers to qualify for night out money.
The main load was on a bogie that was partially a hovercraft. Similar set up for the tow trucks four up front two behind and one huge compressor for the hovercraft section.
They learnt from their mistakes and went by sea after the first trip.
Holy Hell that's some load!
I am glad I didn't come across that beast on a narrow road and I tell you that for free.
That's a plant operators term for moving a piece of plant machinery from one place to another (not on a truck) Gerty.....
(that is, driving it somewhere with it's own power)
-- Edited by Vic41 on Sunday 31st of August 2014 02:10:06 PM
Fuel consumption and would you ask for a drive thru site if you staying overnight ....... Ha ha ha ha ha
Regards Brian
Hope they didn't overstay any free camps
Edit....Wombat must have hacked into my poota again and said that
-- Edited by Dougwe on Sunday 31st of August 2014 03:10:40 PM
Hey, I'm putting in a new slab next weekend on the front lawn to park the Aliner on - gee ! if I had that instead of a Bobcat, I'd scoop out the slab area in one go !!!
This pic was taken on the Barrier Hi-way the load was part of a rig. The module on which it was carried has 20 rows of 8 wheels, weighed 83 ton on is own. The Mac Super liners had the 500hp V8 with a 12 speed gearbox with a 4 speed under drive joey box =48 gears the diffs were a planetary dive units, gear bound to 90kph.
The rig weighed 575 tons. the photo was taken by on of the lead pilots we had three forward pilots as well and 2 police cars forward, thee pilots rear and one police car rear. our average speed was about 30-40kph.
I posted this on a forum a few years ago and it has ended up on the internet on several different site.
Cheers
The Hats
that's amazing ..