By Ali on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 05:03 am: Edit

An industrial accident -- when a Haul truck didn't quite see the parked Ford.

By 94Rover on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 05:24 am: Edit

Anybody got a ladder on the front of their Disco for entry? see last pic-, you still need a step ladder to get to the ladder....

Oh to drive that to work, MD to DC daily......what a morning commute it would be...I wonder how loud the horn is....

By 94Rover on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 05:25 am: Edit

Wait I had to look at the pic again, thats not a ladder...those are freaking steps!

By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 05:45 am: Edit

Yup. Those are steps. That thing is at least three stories tall. the Tires alone are the size of my house. Watched a TLC show extreme machines about one of those things. They are huge. Wonder how much triming I would have to do to fit a set of those tires on the Disco

By Ali on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 06:05 am: Edit

I believe that's a 60 ton haul truck so the tires are around 1.5 tons each. Each tires are driven by a DC motor but I don't know their HP.

By gil on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 06:07 am: Edit

how do they move those beasts around? say they have to get it from one job to another, how do you do it?? airlift it? anyone know any motor specs on those things?

By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 06:23 am: Edit

Gil, they build them on site. If they move it they take it apart. They even keep an air plane hanger sized building on site to service those. They are some big beast. You should see the tools they use to put that together. Talk about a wrench.

By Bud Lane (Hrrovr) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 06:55 am: Edit

Doesn't seem to have much of problem with the approach angle, either.

Bud

By Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 07:24 am: Edit

Terex Titan. largest truck in the world.. Used to be anyway.... I bet those fat tire boys are having a fit over those meats..

Kyle

By Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 07:25 am: Edit

I see that one is actually a Catapillar , must be some clones now...


kyle

By Kyle Van Tassel (Kyle) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 07:26 am: Edit

I think the bastard is ramping as well!!!

Kyle

By Blue Gill (Bluegill) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 07:31 am: Edit

I've played around those beasts at mines & quarries & there is a Cat sales lot not too far from me with a brand spankin new one of those. I wish my house had the same square footage...I had a picture of the Disco next to that same Cat, I'll try to dig it up. Talk about feeling like a speck of fly shit...

That squashed Ford is a beast itself - 250? or 350 superduty with gangbox rear...

That Cat could make short work of recovering Javier

By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 07:34 am: Edit

He just wanted to get a picture of his sexy flexy suspension for the Dozerweb.com boys since they were saying that their dozers were better off road.

By Ali on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 07:39 am: Edit

Speaking of big machines, a while ago I was in Elko, NV working on a project in a Gold mine. They have excavators, basically a back hoe from hell, that have huge buckets. How huge you ask? So huge that our Suburban fit right inside the bucket with room for another four more!!

By mike w on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 07:52 am: Edit

OOOPs!

By Robert Mann (Oldscout) on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 10:42 am: Edit

Kyle that is not a Titan. Titans are painted green. It is clearly a Cat 789 Dump truck in yellow.

By gil on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 10:57 am: Edit

clearly i thought we had already cleared that up...

By Anonymous on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 05:40 am: Edit

Ok, I think I got the whole story. This was a 240 ton haul truck. The welder vehicle (Ford) was s'pose to do a repair job on a haul truck. The haul truck driver went to the washroom, came back out, got in, honked the horn and took off. Evidently, as the hauler driver got into the cab, the welder driver pulled up along side to inspect. Well, then you know what happened! The hauler was in shock when he saw that he crushed the cab and thought the driver was in there as well. Luckily, nobody got hurt in this incident.

Unforunately, the welder had the WRONG haul truck. This hauler was in good condition... well except the ladder that needs repair now!