Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

Fixed it for you...

 

@MACK E-6 last time I moved these scrapers you were asking about how the worked, I keep forgetting to get picture of them together maybe Monday when I move the next one. Here's the truck that pulls it to give you an idea;

 

Yeah the pull the bed and there's a hitch that pins right in where the bed goes, the the trucks hydraulics operate the scraper. We have the beds for them in the yard, they say you can switch them back to the dump beds in about 6 hours. We haven't done it yet.

 

Well moving it again! Back to the yard after they are done with it. Picked it up yesterday at 10 am then was told I could not leave until 7 pm because of club rules. Threw a big enough stink that I was able to get us out of there at 2 pm. Contractor called security and told them if we did not get out of there soon that we would have to stop at the gate and be there until 12pm today because of HOS rules. Met the crane at 9 am this morning to get unloaded. Oh and using the steerable beam dollies was a godsend. When we took them in there the last time they had to pick up the rear 4 times with the loader to move them over. Also the drop yard we normally have to drive down into the ditch to make the turn to miss the fence on the right and the mailbox on the left. Not so with the steerable dollies. The only bad part about the whole thing is that because of the width you cannot see the dolly like you can with bridge beams.

The guys there were joking about how small they looked until they were in the air. I told them "You should see how big they look in the mirror"

 

Yeah, lots of the mines use 785's with no box but a huge (looks like 5th wheel ball) to pull a mega-lowbed rgn to move their equipment on site

 

Caught the 2am oversize convoy through the Mac:

 

I must of missed your earlier post, what is it?

 

An old railroad flat car that they now use as a temporary bridge.