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854G will push a D11R backwards on Concrete without raising a sweat.

Now we need a 864K......?? To keep up with Ultra Class.

Scrub Puller said:

Yair . . . Nige what is the application for the wheel dozers?

Cheers.

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in a word, mobility. Each of our 854s is assigned the cleanup work for 2 waste dumps + 1 shovel. No tracked machine would be able to do that because of the distances involved and no wheeled machine with a blade smaller than the 854 would be able to move the volumes of material involved in the time available.

Question Nige, with as many as you have assembled, why not do the entire bed in house and only ship over the rest of the machine to mount your bed on, you have plenty of experience and the shop to do it, that would save having to weld them together and assemble them yourself, just build them from scratch so to speak.

And I also wanted to say, love the pictures of the assembly process, some of the rest of us would like to have a shop equipped like yours.

CAT793 said:

Now we need a 864K......?? To keep up with Ultra Class.

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Next Minexpo = D12T & E, 864K, 20M & 996K wheel loader.........in my dreams!!

Certainly the base machine is now there in the 993K to produce an 864 so who knows, customer demand will be the thing that gets it over the line, probably happen way before a D12 due to the fact the base machine is already there in the 993.

Randy88 said:

Question Nige, with as many as you have assembled, why not do the entire bed in house and only ship over the rest of the machine to mount your bed on, you have plenty of experience and the shop to do it, that would save having to weld them together and assemble them yourself, just build them from scratch so to speak.

And I also wanted to say, love the pictures of the assembly process, some of the rest of us would like to have a shop equipped like yours.

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In reality our welding shop is a mine repair shop, not a fabrication shop. Even when we assemble beds we bring in contractor welders to do it, or mix'n'match our welders with a contractor's manpower. In truth we don't have the manpower to assemble outside-fabbed beds without hiring in more bodies so fabbing from scratch would require far more resources in addition to those we already haven't got.

Yair . . . Thanks for reply Nige . . . it sure is hard to imagine a wheel machine out pulling a D11!

Way back I did a few shifts on a Le Torneau and later on a big (at the time) Hough . . . it had a V12 Cummins, I think around 700 HP.

I was not impressed with either and did not think the concept would ever progress to the machines you have today.

The Hough was pushing material to a dredge at a rutile mine and the first radiator lasted about 150 hours due to the back wheels carrying sand up to airstream on the suction side of the fan.

Cheers.

Ive see haul trucks out pull d11s a few times. When we had the our 1570 go over we couldn't budge it with 4 D11s but 4 Komatsu 830s did the trick. It was embarrassing as hell too as I was the one that said "If those D11s wont do it the trucks dont have a chance in hell"

The trucks weigh more and have more power, on good ground I can't see why they wouldn't pull more.