New direction 10 years on

Nothing wrong with that at all. Some of the wind projects around here cripple the biggest quarry in this area because of how much rock they use....and they never work a Saturday to stay ahead of the game that I've seen.

 

That is awesome man. Congrats on getting it ready to go to work. Should work out great for you.

 

I'm going to guess 12.5k# or so. Are you limited to 80k# in Illinoise? Buddy is pulling a 22' now and 25 ton of rock makes a pretty good crown down the center. He's got 2×10 bang boards on it, so that helps, but he runs out of capacity way before getting close to 85.5k# out here. Bad pic cause camera focused on hood, but here is 25 ton of AB-3 on that trailer.

 

Since MN is a bridge weight state seeing those short end dumps weirds me out, I generally pulled 34' tri axles that with the bridge law in effect were limited to 82,000 as a tri axle, could load 24 tons and be right around 80,000 no sleeper on my truck, if I pulled the 40' spread axle I could load just under 25 tons, limited to 84,000 on that because of axle ratings. They allow an overweight permit, but after getting a BS $8000 over weight ticket I will never get the overweight permit again in this state.

 

And, it's still upright and not on it's side!

I know, not funny. Dang end dumps and material freezing in the nose scares the crap out of me. And then to think some guys spread with them. Hard enough to miss power lines without doing that.