baked 24M anyone

[Ross]

Look on the bright side, 6 very good tyres looking for a new home bet the cutting edge is worth saving also.
Roast cat dont sound as appealing as roast duck! which is what got written on a wheelie over here a few years back

I assume ( never assume ) it was not deliberate sabotage, but neither was it completely down to a manufacturing fault

MMM Tandem Tires are shot. On a lighter note the front end is worth 400k as it is. Also, The ripper looks pretty clean!

The machine didnt burn up random. Chain of events caused this.

Its sitting in the yard now, Sight for sore eye's.

Ross

[alco]

I wouldn't go anywhere near those tires with air in them. Those things would be like bombs with a lit fuse that you would have no idea when they were gonna go off. I've seen burnt tires blow three days after the fire when they looked pretty much fine.

Brian

[Dozerboy]

Guess that fire suppression system isn't much good or the operator didn't stick around to hit it.

[ballbags2428]

was just a joke gavin...
seems wierd blades up n rippers are down might of been ripping that always knocks em about if ya having a bit of a go!!!

[redline]

mmm would sure be good to hear about the events that led up to the heated moment in its life, I wander if the ripper's hydraulic line was burnt releasing the oil and allowing them to drop where'as the blade was far enouf forward that the hoses were spared hence the blade still being up

[Lashlander]

seems wierd blades up n rippers are down might of been ripping that always knocks em about if ya having a bit of a go!!!

I don't see any ripper marks leading to the ripper. I think it probably burnt the hose holding the ripper up like Redline said. Curious what went wrong though.

[AtlasRob]

We keep gently prodding are you going to elaberate on that chain of events
I never thought about the heat damage to tyres even if they didn't burn
Front ends worth 400k, + rippers ! You dont think they'll go for a rebuild then,
just strip it for parts and scrap the rest ? Whats a new one cost anyways?

[Ross]

Dont worry about the tire's. They are safe. No air in them now.

We keep gently prodding are you going to elaberate on that chain of events

No. Cannot say as we dont know for sure.

Front ends worth 400k, + rippers ! You dont think they'll go for a rebuild then,
just strip it for parts and scrap the rest ?

Looks likley for a re-build. $900k and counting so far.

Whats a new one cost anyways?

$1.8 Million

Ross

[Deas Plant]

Hi, Grader4me.
Another point on the bright side is that there is a faint possibility of a lesson to be learned here. A case where an inquiry just might serves some useful purpose besides the dubious purpose of keeping the enquirers employed.

[w2bstoned]

So was it careless smoking? lol

[Ross]

Hi, Grader4me.
Another point on the bright side is that there is a faint possibility of a lesson to be learned here. A case where an inquiry just might serves some useful purpose besides the dubious purpose of keeping the enquirers employed.

I dont think any lesson's will be learned by this fire TBH. This Aint the first multi-million Dollar machine to burn up here this year.

The Investigation is to decide Who will pay for the damage. The only reason its on-going is CAT cannot supply a new machine for atleast 4 month.

Ross

P.S We now think this machine will be sent to the scrapyard in the sky.

[bobcatmechanic]

pretty new hold on to parts and get top dollar for them some one will needs parts when some one abuses one and tears it up sell them for a little under what cat wants for them new

[Bellboy]

Check out just above the ripper... Not like those could have helped. Thats a lot of Rand for a new grader (13 million Rand). I'd like to know what the hour clock looked like...

[Mass-X]

One thing I'm curious about, is why in the first and second pictures of the machine on this thread, you can see that the second number and letter have been "painted" over. It looks to me like it was done on a computer program? Anyone know why?

While doing a reclamation in one of Newmont's mine's in Nevada in 2006, they burned a 24H to the ground that had less than 300 total hours on it. The end result looked a little worse than this machine considering the machine's fire managed to catch part of the fuel pump station on fire as well.

This is the third 24 I've heard of burning to the ground in the last 2 1/2 years.

[Ross]

One thing I'm curious about, is why in the first and second pictures of the machine on this thread, you can see that the second number and letter have been "painted" over. It looks to me like it was done on a computer program? Anyone know why?

Yup. I covered some of the stickers with black paint. Hide's Infomation about the mining company and location. I also cut the photo's to cut people and other equipment out of the original's
A few people probably know where this happened.

Ross