lrd3
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is is unwise to drive my 2002 Skytrak 8042 the 2 miles back from my mechanics shop
to save $300 for a lowboy tow??!!
Thanks, Dietz
to save $300 for a lowboy tow??!!
Thanks, Dietz
I have a customer with a New Holland and a JCB that drive them all over the place (4-5 miles) at wide open in high gear. They do eat tires doing that.is is unwise to drive my 2002 Skytrak 8042 the 2 miles back from my mechanics shop
to save $300 for a lowboy tow??!!
Thanks, Dietz
AFAIK, telehandlers such as jcb have T/C and 4 speeds, don't get so hot on the road and have good top speed. The other kind is like the Merlo we use, is hydrostatic with only a high and low speed, this generates a lot of heat to get any kind of road speed. Couple miles would be fine unless mountains, 10-20 miles sets the warning buzzers off pretty quickly and you end up pulled over a few times for quite a long while, waiting for them to go off.
Not a telehandler but many years ago I helped move a 988 87A Cat frontend loader from our shop to it's home quarry that is an 85 mile trip! Forget the reason but we had no truck with trailer available and they absolutely had to have the machine back at the quarry the next morning! Forget if we took I-81 or US-11 north.
But either way we pulled in to the plant just a little too late as no-one was there and the gate was locked. Well as luck would have it I was using the service truck as the follow car and a quick look at the gate we saw that it was a simple job to unbolt a couple hinges and swing it open. Got it open pulled loader in by office and bolted gate back together and managed to get away before any cops showed up!
Guess our boss got a phone call in the morning from plant super wondering how the loader got there, what with the gate being locked!
I do have to think that long a drive was not good for the tires as they were very warm by the time we parked it.
Raildude, I worked a job long ago where a contractor from your area, L.W. Edison, flew operators up from Ft. Wayne, In., and roaded a fleet of TS-24s back down. That's how we did it back then.My office overlooks the freeway. Back in the day when scrapers were THE earth moving machines before the excavators and off road trucks, it was not uncommon for a fleet of scrapers to run the expressway to a new job site. Pilot car or truck in the rear with the entire entourage running the right hand lane thru the metro area. I believe they can still get a permit to do it but seeing scrapers on a job sight is a pretty rare sight any more. One contractor near my house has 3 big Terex's that he used to use doing mass site grading with. I bet it has been well over 15 years since they have moved. The green paint is slowly turning to rust color, the weeds and brush are slowly taking over around them. I'm a member of an Industrial heritage Society and have though about asking for 1 to be donated for display.