Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

HD41.....i always thought those were a cool old dozer.

 

@truckdad. Many Thanks to you!!!!!

Do you know if all the HD41 allis were powered by a vt1710? I know the HD31 had a KT, but those HD41 were something like 80 ton???

Truckdad, that pic made my day!

 

That Pete sitting in front of it gives it some scale. Were you ever around any 8280 Terex's?

 

Thats what i wondered. I bet you have forgotten more cool stuff then most of us younger guys have ever seen.....not sayin your old or anything lol.

Ill bet you remember the days when the 1693 was the engine of the day.

 

@Rontonio you think this is an Ohio move?

 

Hey I think I got stuck
om that road as well!

 

I believe this custom-built sideboom is an HD41... carrying a CAT 594.

This was a Calgary-based pipeline contractor that was known for being able to do stuff almost no one else was able to. They built a lot one-off equipment to get jobs done (some of it still in use today); such as, at the time, the world's largest and fastest trencher--the Polar Bear (when they finished it, in the shop, it was too large to get out the door. So one of the owners fired it up and dug a trench through the shop floor so they could drive it out). It now resides at the Roadbuilders and Heavy Construction Museum at the Leduc #1 site at Devon, AB. They had several V-12 powered trucks too.

They were a pretty wild 'n woolly place to work, but also very interesting and a great place to really expand your wings, so to speak. I never worked there, but two of my brothers did and my oldest brother is best friends with the son of one of the founders (two brothers; one a mechanical genius and the other a financial one--a match made in heaven). The son is the one I hauled a side-boom for many years ago as the first piece of equipment I hauled.