This video is about 43 minutes long, but is well worth watching. It shows the construction process involved in building those huge Catapiller dump trucks used at open pit mines around the world. In this case, the end user is the Canadian tar sands mining project.
Thanks, Dave. Watched part of it, will have to finist tomorrow night. Interesting. Bill.
Thanks for posting that video Dave. In the mid 1970's I was hauling Cat equipment up to Fort MacMurray and Mildred Lake. I can't remember what the model number was on those dump trucks but even though they were huge they looked like midgets compared to the CAT 767's. At that time there was one dump truck that was larger than any Cat made. If I remember right they were LaTorneau or something like that. I think they had an articulating frame though. I wonder if they still make them. I believe the ones I remember were partially made in Longview, Texas. Maybe somebody reading this can give more details.
DL
Thanks for posting that video Dave. In the mid 1970's I was hauling Cat equipment up to Fort MacMurray and Mildred Lake. I can't remember what the model number was on those dump trucks but even though they were huge they looked like midgets compared to the CAT 767's. At that time there was one dump truck that was larger than any Cat made. If I remember right they were LaTorneau or something like that. I think they had an articulating frame though. I wonder if they still make them. I believe the ones I remember were partially made in Longview, Texas. Maybe somebody reading this can give more details.
DL
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No f***ing way am I going to spend 43 minutes watching this. It's almost midnight. Oops, oh sh*t, I started the movie. Couldn't stop watching. Enjoyed it a lot!!
I believe the current winner is the Terex MT 6300AC * Height: 26' 0" (7.9 meters) * Length: 51' 1" (15.6 meters) * GVW: 660 tons (660,000 kilograms) * Payload: 400 tons (400,000 kilograms) * Engine: 3,750 horsepower
The same company makes the largest excavator - with a 100 ton bucket :-) Regards,
J.B.
Those trucks are kinda puny compared to the P&H shovels we make parts for:
No cool videos, though.
David
Thanks Dave. I have watched all of it.
Kind of amazing.
Welding of one of those truck frames, takes 275 lbs of MIG wire.
There is actually a lot of videos of this shovel on Youtube.
Now those are some pretty nice giant, huge, gargantuan toys. I think I want one. I don't NEED one, but I want one. Dave
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