Approximate cost to relocate Big CAT dump trucks?

[Oxbow]

About the time they walked that 1450, they shot the booms out of the 1270 and 1370 draglines near me. I used to take visitors for a flight around the mine and booms.

That is the most common end for unused mining equipment.

I see there are a few of the 1370's in Oz.

That's both cool and painful to watch.

 

[OzDozer]

Can't tell a story like that and not post pics of the tank carrier.

Sadly, I had a house fire in 1982 where I lost the vast majority of my photos - a very distressing event.
Only one photo of the old tank carrier survived, and it's not a real good one.
It doesn't show the tandem axles setup, which were made by using something like heavy drill rod for axles!

The International R190 was our first truck - a true gas guzzler with the RD406! The toddler playing with the steering wheel is 57 this year!
The D6C is half-hidden in the background - and the Landrover trayback was the cheapest 4WD we could buy! It was originally purchased new by a farmer in 1960, and we bought it with 34,000 miles on it in 1967.

The towed implement on the trailer is a locally-built stump ripper, we have a lot of stumps in the original wheatbelt vegetation, from dwarf eucalypts called Mallee trees.
Ripping them out saved a lot of damage to cultivation equipment.

You can find photos of the original Trailmobile DT4 on the WW2 military sites on the 'net.

Reo 28XS in Russian service - MLU FORUM

Reo 28XS in Russian service The Softskin Forum

mapleleafup.net

The Trailmobile was originally 9' 6" wide - ours was cut down to the regulation 8' 0" wide so it could be legally road registered.

 

[Pony]

Your "stump ripper", did it just have ripper shanks?
No wings or blades between them, ie blade plough?
Or weren't they invented yet?

 

[OzDozer]

No, the ripper only had simple shanks with replaceable tips. The idea of wings or the blade plough design was far into the future, and not thought of in the early 1960's.

The Mallee stumps don't have the problem with a massive root system, as you have with a lot of Qld native scrub - the Mallee only has a large bulbous stump with a few short heavy roots, and a lot of really fine roots that don't cause any major problem with cultivation.

The company that made these Mallee stump rippers (or Mallee roots, as they're known locally), was a company called Pederick Engineering, who were agricultural equipment manufacturers.

They're still operating today, but they have moved their business location.
They formerly occupied a big number of industrial buildings in a town called Wagin in the Great Southern wheatbelt area - but in the 1980's they almost went bankrupt, thanks to a surge in imports, high interest rates and a change in farm equipment required (they weren't manufacturing what was in demand at the time).

So they moved to another town (Darkan) and re-invented themselves and got some more financial backing and they seem to be chugging along quite happily today.
They still build a ripper - but the current machine is a deep ripper, designed to break up hardpan.

There's no need for Mallee rippers any more here, all the land that is going to be cleared, has been cleared - and it's virtually impossible to acquire a permit to clear any remaining native vegetation.

Gallery | Agricultural Equipment | Pederick Engineering

www.pederickengineering.com.au

 

[HardRockNM]

It almost never happens. Trucks of that size are bought and work out their lives on a specific mine site. To move a 797 (depending on local highway regulations/restrictions) in a worst-case scenario even the body might have to be cut apart to transport it. The chassis would also need a lot of disassembly (a minimum of tyres, the rear axle, front struts, cab, fuel & hyd tanks just for a start).

Considering the level of disassembly required, craneage, transport costs, & labour I would be surprised if a 797 could be moved 500 miles for much less than $1 million.

Something like a 775 would be far easier. It would probably fit complete on a lowboy with only the inside rear tyres removed beforehand and then the fronts removed to get the height of the dump body canopy down once the truck was on board the lowboy. As regards what that would cost, no idea.

EDIT: When we moved 797s we used to drive them..... This particular route was about 130km from the mine to our shop.

793s are routinely moved between mines out here. Each truck requires about six loads - the frame (including engine and torque converter), bed, rear axle, front struts, tires, and cab are all shipped separately. It's surprising how compact the frame and powertrain are by themselves.

777s and smaller are shipped essentially assembled. Unfortunately they represent a serious road hazard as many highways here lack shoulders in places and DPS escorts clear the route by sweeping across the centerline to run other traffic off the road.

 

[Nige]

793s are routinely moved between mines out here. Each truck requires about six loads - the frame (including engine and torque converter), bed, rear axle, front struts, tires, and cab are all shipped separately.

Somewhere I have photos of us moving 793s in one piece on a lowboy without removing the dump body. I’ll have to look for them.

 

[Pops52]

Here's a 777 I hauled into the Cat dealer from a quarry about 12 miles away 2007?. About 17' square. This one pulled double bottom dumps. The Cost? The 3 CHP escorts cost more than my 2 hour truck time. 3 CHP units was around $900, truck was around $400, 2 pilot cars $100.IIRC. 1 county permit @$35. Took 2 hours. 2 lane county road, 2 CHPs in front, moving traffic off the road. CHP made it easy....

 

[Oxbow]

Here's a 777 I hauled into the Cat dealer from a quarry about 12 miles away 2007?. About 17' square. This one pulled double bottom dumps. The Cost? The 3 CHP escorts cost more than my 2 hour truck time. 3 CHP units was around $900, truck was around $400, 2 pilot cars $100.IIRC. 1 county permit @$35. Took 2 hours. 2 lane county road, 2 CHPs in front, moving traffic off the road. CHP made it easy.... View attachment 288930View attachment 288931

Kind of like a beam trailer for the front axle!

 

[Welder Dave]

I remember watching this on a TV show. It can be done. Looks fairly straight forward. If you really want to see something Mammoet transported an 820 Tonne vessel longer than a football field. I think it averaged about 2 miles an hour.

Fully assembled Cat 797 transport | Mammoet news

First time that this type of transport was done by Mammoet.

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Transporting Cat 797s | Mammoet case study

A new idea that allowed the transport of vehicles in one piece.

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