New AtlasCopco Roc L-8 drill rig.

[LowBoy]

Some shots of a pretty awesome piece of equipment. Has a 900 CFM air compressor on board, operator sits in total a/c comfort while running, and stares at a computer screen that really tells him what NOT to do all day...

[MKTEF]

Hey Lowboy.

Nice pictures of your transport of the rigs!

And i bet they where happy with the delivery in the quarry.:notworthy
Most of the operators are very pleased with such a service!;)

So now u can operate a Atlas Copco rigg... I bet there was a "crashcourse" blanket inside the cabin...;)
Nice sirene at the back? Bet its the same as we got, screams like hell.:mad:

Posting a couple of pictures of our rigs, the little brother of the L8 with another boom. Ours is a D7.

And please continue, it's very interresting reading how u do things "over there".:usa

U write its 64k lbs, the leaflet says 44k lbs; did u weigh it? Or is there some heavy extras?

[LowBoy]

Hey Lowboy.

Nice pictures of your transport of the rigs!

And i bet they where happy with the delivery in the quarry.:notworthy
Most of the operators are very pleased with such a service!;)

So now u can operate a Atlas Copco rigg... I bet there was a "crashcourse" blanket inside the cabin...;)
Nice sirene at the back? Bet its the same as we got, screams like hell.:mad: Posting a couple of pictures of our rigs, the little brother of the L8 with another boom. Ours is a D7.

And please continue, it's very interresting reading how u do things "over there".:usa




Appreciate it, MK...and no, there wasn't a crash course blanket inside for me...:D I'm one of those dummies that looks at all the buttons, levers and switches and says to myself, "Self,...I wonder what THIS does?..." Sometimes it works out good, other times it proves to be a bad method, but thankfully no one has been around me while I use that theory.:drinkup

I am fortunate in my line of work to have ran, driven, operated, used, abused and luckily never became dismembered...by a piece of iron of any color.:rolleyes:

Once I had a Barber Greene paver that only steered one way and had a bad detent spring in the control stick almost get the best of me while unloading on a pier in Brooklyn, NY. I started off the trailer backwards and all of a sudden, she was headed into a 360 degree turn, I JUMPED on the kill switch but it fell into the control panel and started shorting out, so my next move was to shut the ignition switch off, which was quite a ways away from where I was sitting. I did all this in what seemed to be an eternity, but was literally nanoseconds. That frigid January water about 30 feet below me off the edge of that pier was a real inspiration to get that 'ol gal beat into submission. I was victorious, after about 6 attempts I was able to back off in a straight line somehow and land it on the dock, gave it a swift kick in the hopper and drove away.

Last week in Michigan,(U.S.A.,) I was attempting to load a '70's vintage P&H T300A 35 ton truck crane from an auction site, and bring it to El Paso, Tx. to a man on the Mexican border at Juarez, where he would be driving it across the border himself under it's own power. I turned the key and hit the button and the 671 Detroit diesel lit right up. Now, the left rear outrigger was extended out fully and had the rear left wheels off the ground, and when I went to retract them, nothing was happening at all. No power to anything, anywhere. It's 102 degrees outside in the sweltering sun, and here I am diagnosing this problem by myself. I finally lift the main boom up off the cradle, remove 2 9/16 bolts from a hinged panel next to the cab and VOILA!, there's a fuse block. Several minutes of thinking and a side dikes remedied that problem, I eliminated a burnt fuse and gained power, but still couldn't get the outrigger to budge.
I then go out back to look at the hydraulic solenoids, and noticed one wire that looked as though it might have been unplugged intentionally.(Devious buyers sometimes use this method to lessen the sale value of a particular piece...) I plugged the wire onto the solenoid and again, VOILA...we have power. Moments later I drove the ol' sow up onto it's sled and it was headed for it's new home. I'm thinking that there's a lot more dumb truck drivers around like me, who would have made a call to the broker, said it won't go, and stormed off. I, for some strange reason, rise to those types of challenges and bull into them with the intentions that I WILL win...So far, I haven't lost too mant battles with that attitude.:usa
I usually get the last laugh when I come up against a know-it-all that thinks all I can do is barely drive the truck into their yard. Especially in the military circles...I honor them wholeheartedly, please understand...but they have their procedures on loading and unloading trucks and equipment that makes me have to turn and walk away sometimes. One guy to steer, one guy to guide him, one guy to yell at the both of them... Oh well...:beatsme

To answer your question on the weight of that L-8 drill, yes, it was an absolute 64K pounds.

Tareweight of truck/trailer=46,000 lbs.
Weight of machine..........=64,000 lbs.
Permitted weight to move=110,000 lbs.

Thanx.

[Lashlander]

Nice pics Lowboy, Gone are the days of the old air tracks. I see one now and then but their getting few and far between.

[LowBoy]

Nice pics Lowboy, Gone are the days of the old air tracks. I see one now and then but their getting few and far between.












I hear you there. I think that most of the air track drillers have seen the guys sitting in these AtlasCopco's with the doors and windows shut in 110 degree heat smiling away, and refused to run or just plain quit their old jobs standing in a perpetual cloud of drill dust, with earmuffs and hardhats, saying to themselves..."why me...?":D

[MKTEF]

This is exatly what i argued about when some smart guy told me:
We make a mid life upgrade on our old riggs.:eek:

**** no; we are in 2007 and the new equipment is supposed to last 10 years.
Who is driving drilling riggs outside like the old way in 2017?

And i can write under on that, the cabin is so quiet u sometimes have to open the door to check if the hammer is working.
Especialy when u have gotten the drill bit down in the rock and lowered the wacum suction head down to the rockface.;)

It's nice with the radio, but it's smart to turn it off, u need to use your ears to hear how it performs and to react on strange noices...:rolleyes:

And if u got the canbus rigg, it does everything for you.
U place the drill bit on the right spot where the computer tells u, and press start, then the rigg does the rest, stopps with the rods pulled up and ready for your move to the next hole.
U can start it and leave the cabin untill it's drilled the programmed lenght and all.