Boom up = beam down

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  1. Toomanybikes

    Toomanybikes Road Train Member

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    So what happens when you give an immigrant driver that can't drive a truck, a job to move an excavator, that he can't drive either.

    Truck sleeper is 13' high, but you leave the boom up. How high is it? Does driver know how to read? Does driver know what feet and inches is?
     
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  3. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    "Go easy on him, he's only been in a moving vehicle twice before and one of those he was locked in the trunk of a taxi."
     
  4. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    Who knows what the real story is.. that bridge looks under construction. Might have been lower than it actually is listed..
     
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  6. Toomanybikes

    Toomanybikes Road Train Member

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    It can't be lower than the top of the sleeper, 13' . No damage to the sleeper.

    The boom of that excavator, like most modern excavators, tucks down to cab hight or less for transport.

    Anybody experienced in moving equipment knows that.
     
  7. Toomanybikes

    Toomanybikes Road Train Member

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    Looks like a Sany 155 so about 9' to 10' hight with boom tucked in transport mode. At that hight you don't need a landoll if you know what you are doing. You can just about put that on a skateboard.
     
  8. Toomanybikes

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    Beam hight listed at 15'

    Watch for sparks on dash cam.
     
  9. D.Tibbitt

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    Wow.. what is it with these guys hauling excavators with the boom all the way up.. looks like it buckled the trailer too.
     
  10. buzzarddriver

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    That tanker took a good ride too.
     
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