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.Yair . . . Nige what is the application for the wheel dozers?
Cheers.
Now we need a 864K......?? To keep up with Ultra Class.
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.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.