Cat

[Hank R]

About 20 miles then 7 miles on a logging type of road.

 

[icestationzebra]

What is that thing attached to the bed handing in front of the cab? Is that a reminder that the bed is down? ISZ

 

[skyking1]

heads-up display
" too close for missiles, switching to guns"

 

[John C.]

That red flag is exactly what you describe. In the last few years, some of the trucks have interlocked the transmissions to only shift into first gear in order to move the truck while the bed is up. I've been in a couple of trucks that would not move at all if the box was not down and sitting on the frame of the truck.

 

[Nige]

What is that thing attached to the bed handing in front of the cab? Is that a reminder that the bed is down? ISZ

Yup. Designed for the (very) average operators that seem as though are getting hired these days...........

In the last few years, some of the trucks have interlocked the transmissions to only shift into first gear in order to move the truck while the bed is up. I've been in a couple of trucks that would not move at all if the box was not down and sitting on the frame of the truck.

I don't know about other brands but Cat trucks you can't select reverse with the bed even just raised off the rails, and in forward is limited (normally) to first speed. It also shouts at the operator and logs an Event on the Monitor system if the speed exceeds a certain preset amount when the bed is up. "Up" being anything other than the body sat hard on the frame rails.

 

[skyking1]

I am glad I ran haul trucks that would let you do things, and now I'm done. We would be backing into place and raising the bed, dragging out loads as far as we could for the blade guy. The nanny would have had fits.

 

[digger doug]

co

I am glad I ran haul trucks that would let you do things, and now I'm done. We would be backing into place and raising the bed, dragging out loads as far as we could for the blade guy. The nanny would have had fits.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but allot of the OHV trucks I have seen, back up to a hard stop, to dump into a crusher or other conveyor.
They ain't spreading, and they don't need to pull forward to get the last bit's off the truck.

 

[skyking1]

mine was all site hauling with articulated trucks like the volvos. I only ran 769 Cat wagons once on a demo site, and then I was piling concrete next to a crusher.

 

[Nige]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but allot of the OHV trucks I have seen, back up to a hard stop, to dump into a crusher or other conveyor.
They ain't spreading, and they don't need to pull forward to get the last bit's off the truck.

Plus if it's any sort of mine waste being dumped over a free edge the usual procedure is to reverse to a point close to the edge, maybe 15ft or so, & dump. Then a track dozer pushes the material over and maintains the dump surface even and level while he's doing it.
It avoids this sort of thing happening. Fortunately the first one was over a low dump. A more normal height of a dump (100-150ft high) and the truck would've been written off and $3m down the drain. A bit like the 2nd photo. And yes, that is the engine leaning up against the side of the rear wheel.

 

[Nige]

And yes, that is the engine leaning up against the side of the rear wheel.

And before anyone asks, no we didn't put it there - the accident did.

 

[digger doug]

Any bouncing involved ?

 

[Nige]

Any bouncing involved ?

When you consider that it went down over 300ft and left the dump body about half way down I would assume so.

Unfortunately the operator did not survive. RIP.

 

[digger doug]

Curious to see how the new autonomouse trucks will behave.

 

[Hank R]

This is not my picture was sent to me and I have no idea as to where this was or is....

 

[Nige]

Another Komatsu, this time a water tank. You really shouldn’t mix the Dark Side up with the good stuff.
Mammoet doing the hauling so probably North America somewhere.

 

[Hank R]

Me very very Bad sorry about that.

 

[Hank R]

I hope I have this right a Cat truck getting rigged up to pull a Aspen bed. At this mine they mine 400.000 lbs of Copper every 12 hrs. Some rock from the mine if I remember right where there is Copper there is a bit of Gold.

 

[Nige]

Most major copper mines always produce a certain amount of gold. Some also produce silver. They freely distribute the numbers for the copper but tend to keep quiet about the other two.

 

[Hank R]

Word around town here is the the Gold and silver pay the power bill at Copper Mt Mine

 

[Nige]

Word around town here is the the Gold and silver pay the power bill at Copper Mt Mine

That wouldn't surprise me in the least.