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NZ Logger

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Heavy Aussie spec truck we have had in NZ for two years now. 240 tonne chassis rating
 

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JPV

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Wow, that's a nice rig! What drivetrain does it have and what are the finned aluminium looking things on the drive axle hubs? I have never seen those before.
 

Junkyard

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Planetary rears on it I’m sure. They do stuff bada$$ there. I’d love to come move some big iron down under!
 

NZ Logger

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Wow, that's a nice rig! What drivetrain does it have and what are the finned aluminium looking things on the drive axle hubs? I have never seen those before.
Yep SISU hub reduction diffs, 18 speed RR box and Cummins 620hp up front
 

JPV

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Nige wins! How far were you going that it made sense to go to that much trouble of hauling them instead of roading?
 

Nige

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G..G..G..Granville.........!! Fetch your cloth.
The loader was going about 1200km, the truck about 500km IIRC. It was a while ago.
The back story is that it was far more difficult & time-consuming to assemble machines on customer's sites because of a heap of things. Paperwork, safety, distances, etc. We came to the conclusion that it was easier & far cheaper to assemble everything in the yard then throw it on a lowboy and deliver it in one piece to the customer. Here's a couple of photos showing what the yard looked like back in the day.
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Nige

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But.... Why so many spare tires? Lol
When the nearest mobile tyre fitter is probably somewhere around 300 miles away from where you break down you carry as many spare tyres as you think you might need (and probably a few extra just to be on the safe side), because sure as Hell if you have to change one it's down to the truck crew and what they're carrying with them. The highways are miles & miles of this, even gas stations can be as much as 150 miles apart ..........

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The Peej

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When the nearest mobile tyre fitter is probably somewhere around 300 miles away from where you break down you carry as many spare tyres as you think you might need (and probably a few extra just to be on the safe side), because sure as Hell if you have to change one it's down to the truck crew and what they're carrying with them. The highways are miles & miles of this, even gas stations can be as much as 150 miles apart ..........

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WOW that is a lot of nothing
 

Nige

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Driest desert in the world if you believe what's written on the internet. 40,000 square miles of nothing - apart from copper, gold, lithium, & nitrates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Desert
I used to chuckle when folks in South-Western US would talk about the "desert". I used to tell them "what you have here isn't desert, things grow in it."
 

Nige

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My "normal cruising speed" was usually 130-140km/h - the speed limit was 100km/h. The problem with that was that whenever you were least expecting it you'd barrel round one of the few corners and find a cop car coming the other way, and they ALWAYS had their radars switched on. Don't ask me how I know this ........ :(:(
 
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