Nige
Senior Member
This was last night when we got done. Moved the shovel boom & arm into position as well.
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On the Road Again
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Nige
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What a difference a day makes. It pi$$ed it down overnight and the today assembly area resembles a bog.
Even so the progress on the truck is excellent and the counterweight went up on the shovel as well. Plus the body on the lowboy in the photo above was offloaded in a corner out of the way. It seems that the labour force has all of a sudden realized that the holidays are just around the corner.
Even so the progress on the truck is excellent and the counterweight went up on the shovel as well. Plus the body on the lowboy in the photo above was offloaded in a corner out of the way. It seems that the labour force has all of a sudden realized that the holidays are just around the corner.
Nige
Senior Member
It would be a lot more fun if it wasn't f**lking raining.........!!
Nige, I've lived my entire life in Oregon! I wouldn't know how to work if I wasn't soaking wet, LMAO!
DMiller
Senior Member
Welders wasted no time zippering the bed together!!
Nige
Senior Member
The body in the photo above was the previous one to arrive. However the main parts of the body that they offloaded yesterday are all pretty much lined up and ought to be ready to start welding on night shift tonight. That one wil go on the chassis that arrived yesterday. The one that is already completed will go on the first of two chassis that are arriving the middle of next week. If the welders put their mind to it they can finish assemble a body in 5 days
Nige
Senior Member
Big main control valves. Two of the four swing transmissions are underneath that rat's nest of piping. The other two seem accessible now but won't be once the boom is installed.
DMiller
Senior Member
HOLY Crap what a Maze!
terex herder
Senior Member
There is an abandoned carbon black plant near a friend's house. It has been abandoned for over 40 years. Satellite photos still show a big black smudge around the plant.
big ben
Senior Member
So it appears it’s a Cat dominated mine site why the Hitachi EX3600 and not a Cat 6040 or whichever model is the closest equivalent?
hosspuller
Senior Member
Nige: You once posted your prescription for long term water proof electrical connections. As I remember it used some Aussie stuff not available in the US. Looking at the maze of soon to be inaccessible pipe & wires ... How are you handling the factory connections on the Hitachi ?
crane operator
Senior Member
I had a scale issue with this picture, until I saw the guy standing in the back past the piping. Its all a little bigger than it looked at first.
kenh
Senior Member
Me too, glad I am not in that business.
Working on that thing should cause a lot of howling, screaming, weeping, etc
Working on that thing should cause a lot of howling, screaming, weeping, etc
DMiller
Senior Member
Or at least cussing, but then again the guys there are paid by the hour
Nige
Senior Member
The operation was established long before the current Cat line of mining shovels came into being. Let’s face it the 5230 wasn’t exactly a runaway success. The first two EX3600s arrived 10 years ago so it made sense to stick with them. They’re actually a pretty good machine in my experience. The operation would have also gone Hitachi for the 45-ton machines as well but the GM vetoed it on the basis of a bad experience in his previous assignment. Having looked at the 345GC up close I think that was a mistake. It’s more like a construction machine and not really the machine that a 24/7 operation needs. For example you can’t even get factory-fitted autolube on it. To me it looks like a lightweight POS. 3 tons lighter than the model it replaced and with a C9.3 instead of a C13. WTF..?
Nige
Senior Member
It’s being done with exactly the same stuff (Senson) as we assemble it.
Nige
Senior Member
For scale the two pins in the lower left corner are 12” diameter.
Nige
Senior Member
Still four more machines to arrive, but two of them are 45-ton excavators so they don't take much work. The excavators are already sitting in the port, the ship that is bringing the last two mining trucks arrives in port and offloads today.
The only plus here is that at least when it rains, even in December, it's not cold. Currently 21C (70F) @ 8am.