Deas Plant
Senior Member
Looking forward.
Hi, Pushblock.
I'm looking forward to it too. I think it was Lashlander who said the he had worked over in Russia with a Russian guy who operated a Russian-built diesel-electric drive dozer that ackshully performed quite well. Now if the Russkies can do it,.................
And we KNOW that diesel-electric dump trucks have been doing quite well for years. It's only a matter of gearing to get it down to dozer-type speeds. Electric and diesel-electric locomotives have been doing it forever but that fact apparently didn't sit well with the agenda being pushed by the gentleman in question so he didn't mention them, other than to enquire about the cost of re-building a traction motor.
Then there have been the 'kings' of volume earthmoving, the face and stripping shovels and the big draglines, almost all full electric. They apparently didn't fit in with his agenda either so they got the same treatment.
I was a little surprised by the respnse from OzDozer over on the ACME board when he rubbished the concept. For me, I'm interested but I'm also in 'wait-n-see' mode.
Hi, Pushblock.
I'm looking forward to it too. I think it was Lashlander who said the he had worked over in Russia with a Russian guy who operated a Russian-built diesel-electric drive dozer that ackshully performed quite well. Now if the Russkies can do it,.................
And we KNOW that diesel-electric dump trucks have been doing quite well for years. It's only a matter of gearing to get it down to dozer-type speeds. Electric and diesel-electric locomotives have been doing it forever but that fact apparently didn't sit well with the agenda being pushed by the gentleman in question so he didn't mention them, other than to enquire about the cost of re-building a traction motor.
Then there have been the 'kings' of volume earthmoving, the face and stripping shovels and the big draglines, almost all full electric. They apparently didn't fit in with his agenda either so they got the same treatment.
I was a little surprised by the respnse from OzDozer over on the ACME board when he rubbished the concept. For me, I'm interested but I'm also in 'wait-n-see' mode.