T909? - Another one from KW

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  1. mrrolly

    mrrolly Light Load Member

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    Ran into this one at Kimba (Sth Aust) last week running across to Perth

    Tri-Drive T909 (yep...thats what the plate said), and around $450,000 worth of truck....good to see someones got money to burn !!!!

    Apologies for the crap quality of the pics - Iphones suck as camera phones :biggrin_2553:

    Busy 2 weeks across the Nullabor coming up, with all the V8 Supercar transporters heading up to Barbagallo. Spent the week playing leapfrog with a few of the guys, and we'll get to do it all again next week after the races

    Dave
     

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  3. AUSSIE DAVE

    AUSSIE DAVE Road Train Member

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    big bucks alright. but it is good to see the RTA finally allowing this type of setup on the road, here in Brisbane they have recently allowed 2 trailer roadtrains to come down from toowoomba into the port of brisbane, its about time they realised that a roadtrain can stay within the lane on that route, and lets face it the wheel tracking of a 2 trailer roadtrain is not very diff from a b-double, so i cant work out why it took them such a long time to make the change. the allowance of quad axle trailers here is also a good thing, just wish i had the money to buy one, so i could legally carry those heavy containers. LOL
     
  4. ironpony

    ironpony Road Train Member

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    Now that's quite a moose-killer you guys have on the front end!
     
  5. Prairie Boy

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    Tri Drive in Perth area. probably going to make an oilfield winch tractor out of it. About $155,000. Canadian dollars. I'll ship you all you like for $450,000. lol:biggrin_25523:
     
  6. lostNfound

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    Pick me, my father lives in Perth and I have been thinking about going there.

    I had a Mercedes that I was really excited about shipping there when I saw the asking prices (something close to double what it was worth here) for similar ones...


    until I remembered about the right-hand drive. :biggrin_25523: :biggrin_25521:
     
  7. Prairie Boy

    Prairie Boy Road Train Member

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    Being as your from Stampede land, you've seen lots of tri drive winch tractors. The suckers have unbeleivable traction when all 3 lockers and power dividers are kicked in.
     
  8. lostNfound

    lostNfound Road Train Member

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    I'll bet.

    It has been quite a few years, but I ran winch tractors, although they were all tandems... mostly self-taught. I learned the importance of "hook on top" when standing up cement bins. It didn't go over the edge of the lease, but... :biggrin_25524:
     
  9. Prairie Boy

    Prairie Boy Road Train Member

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    Not allowed to do it anymore, 400 barrel tanks have to be stood up with a picker and else by using a bed truck.

    I spotted some too years ago, they had a spike at the end of the skids that stuck ion the ground so you could stand it up by having your line on TOP (LOL) and backing against the skids.
     
  10. mrrolly

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    saw another one heading over on the return trip this week, so I called the guy up on UHF and asked where they were off too (The trucks). Hamptons in Kewdale he said, and so far they've delivered 12 to them - thats some big bucks there :)


    Dave
     
  11. mrrolly

    mrrolly Light Load Member

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    You sure as heck need them moose killers out there, kangaroos can do some major damage to a front end, specially them bid red buggars up north !!!
     
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