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Old 06.23.2009
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Intermountain Rigging & Heavyhaul

This is one of the best heavyhaul outfits out there. They are owned by one man therefore they are a "niche" outfit. They treat everyone with respect and fairness. Their fleet is mostly older iron. because in this economy they can't really spend the $$$ needed for heavy haul spec tractors right now.I would expect things will change when the economy swings the other way. They do have a dozen late model tri axle stuff for their bigger stuff. they also have three prime movers to handle their 685,000 to 1,000,000 lb stuff. I was fortunate enough to participate in one of these large moves out of pocatello to rio blanco canyon in colorado for part of the way at least. the total weight of the piece was 700,000 lbs and the gross weight was 1.4 million. a dual lane suspended beam trailer was used. i'll download some pics as soon as i can figure this out.
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Old 06.26.2009
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This is one of the best heavyhaul outfits out there. They are owned by one man therefore they are a "niche" outfit. They treat everyone with respect and fairness. Their fleet is mostly older iron. because in this economy they can't really spend the $$$ needed for heavy haul spec tractors right now.I would expect things will change when the economy swings the other way. They do have a dozen late model tri axle stuff for their bigger stuff. they also have three prime movers to handle their 685,000 to 1,000,000 lb stuff. I was fortunate enough to participate in one of these large moves out of pocatello to rio blanco canyon in colorado for part of the way at least. the total weight of the piece was 700,000 lbs and the gross weight was 1.4 million. a dual lane suspended beam trailer was used. i'll download some pics as soon as i can figure this out.
700,000??!! Damn,I thought I was a heavyhauler at 118,000!

Please do post the pix....I would love to get a look at something like that.
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I'm not that computer savvy but i'll figure out this download stuff. until then, you can go to intermountain rigging and heavyhaul's website. they've got some pretty nice pics there also. this trailer works ten to twelve times a year on the superloads. they tell me that she's a real moneymaker. I've never seen the rigging crews and their transport drivers work together so well. the farthest distance we could go with that vessel that i mentioned earlier was about 50 miles or so per day because the overall specs were 24 feet wide, and 18' 5'' high and 236 feet long.this included the one prime mover pulling and the two with counterweights pushing. i asked the guy who ran the whole crew why. Mark said "where are gonna park this thing at the end of the day. we cant let ourselves get stuck somewhere out in the high lonesome". hell, i'd never even seen this kind of an operation before and never thought about where to park. To make things worse, c-dot made us move the twenty one miles of rio blanco canyon road(county road 5) at night. we made it though. very slowly and it took all night. This trailer wasn't set up to move the vessel up the mountain so they called mammoet heavy lift out of texas to help with their golhoffer set. you never see a move like this. once in a lifetime opportunity indeed.

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Hand, if you're movin 118K you're a heavyhauler. no two ways about it. these guys just move a little more, that's all. The yellow iron work has slowed down for us alot though. they had to lay off quite a few guys for now. i sure hope it picks up soon. until it does we've got wind towers to do.

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Old 06.28.2009
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ottertail49 i'm glad to see someone out here that is happy with there job. Keep up the good job and be safe out there hauling that big $$ freight.
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Hand, if you're movin 118K you're a heavyhauler. no two ways about it. these guys just move a little more, that's all. The yellow iron work has slowed down for us alot though. they had to lay off quite a few guys for now. i sure hope it picks up soon. until it does we've got wind towers to do.
Glad to hear you got something to haul.We,on the other hand, are not as diversified and do not have a secondary product to haul. It is very slow,I'm trying to hold out cuz this is where I wanna be.But this sitting around can't go on much longer.
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Got something to move for now, but it's getting really slow. We're down to one third manpower now. Busy one or two days then slow for three. There's way to many trucks sitting in the yard. Sure hope it picks up and all of us can get busy again. Good luck to ya.
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