Nige
Senior Member
Scrub, I can't remember the exact numbers off the top of my head but IIRC an 11R costs about US$200 per hour to run just in fuel and undercarriage without counting anything else. Now in 2nd speed she'll do about 7km/h, so that equates to almost $30/km just in fuel & running gear even when it's not pushing dirt. Move a dozer 10km a few times which would be easy on a big mine site and if you have a fleet of say 20 dozers all of a sardine you're talking real money just to walk them around. More than enough to justify a lowboy and crew.