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Holly Crap a wild ride

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My---folks are saying lack of traction with just moisture. Four tires that are meant for hauling
extreme weight that are essentially slicks with a few lugs. And a toboggan also, requiring a very
rough surface {like rock} for traction. A mine that has no rock piled around?
 

LN Pipeline

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My---folks are saying lack of traction with just moisture. Four tires that are meant for hauling
extreme weight that are essentially slicks with a few lugs. And a toboggan also, requiring a very
rough surface {like rock} for traction. A mine that has no rock piled around?

Actually, they have six tires.
 

LN Pipeline

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Fun times. Our 777s had oversized buckets on them. It was not uncommon for them to end up on their side. Those trucks must be tough, cause I don’t remember any major damage.

The mine finally locked out the last gear and that greatly reduced tip overs.

Imagine if berms weren’t built on roadways. I road that berm all the way to the bottom of the ramp more than once.
 

Nige

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Those trucks must be tough, cause I don’t remember any major damage.
Usually apart from a bust mirror or two and maybe the end of an exhaust pipe flattened nothing serious ever happened to any truck that was put on its side, basically because nothing major protrudes past the body sidewall.

I well recall back in the late 70s with early-model 777s operators spinning them on purpose in the frost on the way down into the hole when work kicked off at 0-dark-30 on a Monday morning - no weekend work in those days. It was considered to be no bigge back then.
 
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