I'd rather have a larger heavier,slower engine with less horsepower and putting out a wad of torque,than a smaller lighter engine screaming out a bunch of horsepower for the same torque. The larger slower engine will run longer,cooler with less maintenance issues,more efficiently.
the Western Star has a tridem with planetary hub reduction at the wheels, (like the Oshkosh) -- the other two highway trucks don't. The planetaries, like those on off-road equipment and on heavy trucks throughout Europe and China, multiply the torque at the wheel end by around 3:1. Since the transmission and axle differential ratios are probably close to the same for the three highway tractors, this means that the Star indeed really is pulling more than its share.
You can literally hear the tires on the front truck slowly slipping under the torque. The rubber trails on the road after it passes shows how much power was being transferred to the road. Amazing
@@steventrojanowski3595 That's what they called a Western Star when I hauled coal in one, a Canadian Mack. Cab too small for my legs, ergo knee knockin.
The only issue with an electric motor would be able to supply the energy to the motor. For now. That could easily be pulled with one electric vehicle . A large one but only one.
@jason powell You may want to do some research in electric motors and their use in industry. Also in transportation. The majority of extreme heavy hall trucks only have large diesel engines to power a generator. There are electric motors on the wheels that propel the vehicles. The companies that move buildings or other large objects use trailers with motors on the axles. The NASA crawler, the vehicle used to move rockets to the launch pad...uses diesel engines to generate the electricity to power the electric motors that transport 4,500,000 pounds. It is a track vehicle that even uses motors to steer the tracks. Have you ever been a large production facility like an auto plant? Those assemby lines, welders and service vehicles run on electric motors. I also said one truck would be able to do it.I also said a large truck.Of course 8 tires would not be enough but it wouldn't need 60 tires.
@@kerrylee4633 I have a different opinion reason why the wait I pull on a daily basis is 92 ton I'm a heavy holler my semi they don't make any more and I out pull all these new trucks on the road electric sounds good but you can only go hundred miles with it depending on the wait you pull and my 64 needle noise I'm running a cat B 3406 with a six speed main and a twelve 12-41 axillary people know it as twin stick 6&4 also to with these new electric semis you have to buy a generator that goes around 12 thousand on up depending on who you buy it from and that takes diesel to run it
I’ve moved hundreds of transformers and that is not one. I also think it wasn’t that heavy with only 8 axles under it. Maybe 150 ton. The company I worked for had trailers that could carry 500 tons and it took 23 axles of 8 tires an axle to handle it.
@@user-jj3tw1sr7o not to be contradicting, but it could be a transformer, my statement/question was directed more to the total power moving the possible transformer.
@@Jasekingg In this application it's torque although the total available hp here is probably approaching 2k. That torque is also coming from four-stroke engines, known for producing high torque at low rpm.
For a 8 axle lines combination 3 pulling and one push truck!, so around 2300hp!! How steep is this climb? How much load is it on those 8 axle lines? Could technical not be more than 260t...
" running out of puff..".. that pretty funny in german language... puff is another word for bordel..and when someones is running out... a big fat hairy one would have tried to open your trousers instead of the hot sporty😁😁 blonde...
@@MrDriftspirit Excuse me disengage perv mode ,am not German and clean living, if God intended me to be horny and f--k like a rabbit then he,d give me the keys to a brand new Chevy Caprice.
Only 64 tires carrying the load? All the horsepower must be due to the steep hill and not so much to keep the load rolling on the rest of the journeys.
I watched this video a few times before I write this comment, I think the horsepower, torque output and gearing of some of these trucks are different, the Oshkosh is old-school and is pulling strong and slow, the kw w990 in the front and the and the kw t800 in the back is modern technology with maybe a Cummins x15 605hp and a massive 2050ft/lbs of torque and wants to pull faster, the skid marks behind these 2 trucks proved that they are pulling so hard and strong because of uneven distribution of horsepower, torque and gearing
Its too big to be shipped via average railroad anyway. That thing is twice the size maybe even triple the size of your average rail car. Theyd lose more money by using rail.
In USA you are lucky: the roads are large almost everywhere. In Europe, moving those extra wide loads is a mess. We usually use short 6x6 trucks, usually MAN, with very heavy ballasts that end up to ruin the roads, doing to the concentration of the mass...
for a while they were amazingly cheep at auction, just barely in the 5 digits, as geared iirc they only go maybe 50 and get about 2-3 mpg while doing it, but the 500hp 8v92 is making a wonderful noise outta that diesel. the truck is known as the m1070 het
Ya it takes weight to push or pull weight period, a million horse power is useless without sufficient weight, any way awesome video, and that 4 axle Detroit tractor seems to be really pushing its weight ,cool impressive
@jordi valle Could be they are smart, but still does not change the fact that they drive like crap. I have seen the statistics on commercial vehicle crashes.
Too much tyre weight on the trailer to go fast. Plus, let’s say you run out of traction half way up because the driver took a run at it. That there is mega exciting, trust me :D
No, it is nothing to do with ladies with big backsides, it is all down to the right gearing, how do you think Mr Oliver D North Engineer for Scammell Motors made a 100 pony Gardner 6LW diesel of less than 9 Litres pull 100 Tons, yes cats&kittens, well thought out gearing, figure it out Richard Osman?.
Tow bar in a kevlar sleeve, if it shatters, the shrapnel is contained and damage will be minimal. Our two biggest trailers have the same setup on the front pull bar, though the back doesn't
@@homelessman2257 European cat3 trucks such as the Trojan can push/pull much more weight than any US counterpart. It makes more sense using 2 trucks instead of 4 especially on European roads
Hey wait people remember that Biden and the eco experts.........i mean eco nuts say that we need to go to all electric vehicles. I'm sure that they would say that this could be done with electric powered rigs which i agree that could be done with the amount of torque you get from electric drive motors, but can you imagine how many times a day you'd have to stop to recharge the batteries when pulling a load like this. Kinda makes their argument that we don't need fossil fuel powered vehicles look rather stupid now doesn't it.
Just google it man he's said many times that his goal is to do away with fossil fuels and vehicles powered by fossil fuels and that it is a must for us to do this. I think there's even one speech he did where he mumbled thru saying that the goal was to have everyone driving electric vehicles...i think primarily cars by 2035.
@@aranbywillikers9889 There are also a lot of videos where he says that we need to phase out all fossil fuel usage so if you get rid of fossil fuel power that gets rid of fossil fueled cars, trucks, trains, planes, boats ect which i think most people would agree is absurd. Just the amount of energy required to move large aircraft, trains, trucks, and ships means that we are many many years away from being able to run them on anything besides fossil fuels which he has vowed to get rid of. Just look at the damage that's been done already by his policies on American oil drilling and production. If the eco nuts keep getting their way can you imagine how big of a mess we'll be in a few years from now?
