Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

I’ll be curious to see it it can actually transfer enough weight to be worth doing.

 

Hey guys, got a question for you all. The rig on this video is above and beyond anything I’ve ever even came close to doing. I have hauled the trailer sections for Mamoet, and I know certain sections have hydraulic steering. Do they have hydraulic brakes also? I couldn’t really tell if the front trailer wheels skidded also. I don’t believe they did.
I’ve had loads on really steep grades where the tractor started sliding. My first thought would be to ease off the brakes to regain control and try to steer it ( although the truck at the bottom of the grade would have been an obstacle) and avoid a tractor jackknife, then try again to slow it down.

Is this still correct procedure with a million pound wagon?

 

"Trust me, it looks bigger in person"

 

Something overlooked like a air line shut off valve turned by mistake? I gotta wonder why they started over the crest with the other truck blocking the road. Why start down knowing you have to stop and hold it on that grade.

 

I think it was just a miscalculation.

 

About as much as the engineers do NOW!!!
Hindsight is a b###h huh.

 

Maybe you’re right. My thoughts would be that they could possibly regain steering, but even then, with that truck at the bottom of the hill, and a half a million pounds on the wagon, there was no possible way to fully gain control.
They should have been able to distribute the weight they way they pleased with that type of trailer. Even steered it. Doesn’t that trailer have hydraulic brakes on every axle?

 

@truckdad can you tell whether or not the front trailer wheels locked up and skidded?

 

As I remember they don’t have brakes per se, the motors are hydraulic and can be slowed hydraulically.