Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

It's a little trickier with a diff steer dozer but it can be done.

 

I'll have to play with it and get it close to being even on each side and slip both sides in at same time I think

 

It's been a while but I think you can leave it in neutral and move the diff steer lever and one track will move, you'll figure it out.

 

It always looks like a piece of cake when the trailer is already unstacked, put together, shimmed, blocked up and loaded correctly, secured, homework done and all you have to do is drive. But even the driving part is deceiving. There are quite a few things about that load that you have to take into consideration and change your driving style accordingly. Ol JD can truck.

 

it may have turned into one of those, "do you know that you're not supposed to be on the road today" conversations, but I give up. From this day forward, I will rejoice with song and drink when these guys get burned.

 

Loaded up in Belgrade, MT

 

How did it go loading it up?

 

It wasn't to bad, spent more time figuring out how I wanted to block it and even more time chaining it. Would be so much simpler if there were more actual spots to tie a chain to

 

With tracked equipment, it's not to bad, every pad is a potential hook point!
Anything else is a crapshoot... For being built for the construction world where it is gonna get put on a truck to be moved and need to be tied down lord only knows how many times before it someday gets repurposed into somebodies flower planter, or a toyota! You'ld think the engineers would incorporate a little something more than they do, wouldn't you? As one scratches his head looking at the large smooth piece of iron setting upon his trailer!!

 

I have said this a thousand times if I've said it once, what would be so freaken hard to weld on a few lugs? The kind that are on the back of a Cat grader come to mind, they're already manufacturing them weld em on!!!