This rig is 198' long, 15'5" wide, 350,000 lbs and 19 axles. It's amazing to watch this thing maneuver around the parking lot. Another video will be uploaded soon, showing this rig being loaded onto the S.S. Badger.
US Highway laws are ridiculous and really draconian, with the right permit in AU we can do pretty much anything. That load would go right on the back of a heavy drake lowboy spreader trailer with no need for that ridiculous assortment of axles and trailers.
Interesting when comments are so easy to criticize these guys with this equipment. Loads are transported in the U.S. based on federal and state laws. They don't just load up and go. Various permits are in place before anything happens. F.Y.I.
I'm sure the tourists hate it but it's nice to see this stuff really putting the Badger to use.......It just shows how valuable she really is.I mean could you imagine this having to drive around :O
This is heading to my Fathers work it will be here on Monday the 5th of November! Pacific Recycling its a 3 million dollar piece of equipment to crush cars! :D ill try to get a video up on it!
Wow, I still have my porcelain coffee mug from my ride on the USS Badger bringing my SAAB over from Luddington, Michigan to Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 2004!
I'm a very mechanically oriented guy and I don't really understand all of what I just saw. Sigh. It's hard to imagine this thing on the road. Is there actually a training facility for this?
joe woodchuck no training facility, you just have to start at the "bottom" and work your way up, listen to the guys that have PROVEN that they have been there done that ( or something very much like that because no two jobs are the same ) and be able to learn from others mistakes.
There has to be a way for that vehicles tires to be able to slide across the asphalt instead. It must be hard on the asphalt and equipment to make a turn like that. I was thinking like teflon "sleds" that can be pulled down onto the tires. Sorta like a motorcycle visor. Just leave one axle to brake. When your going that slow it should be safe. Or have a crew lay some sheets down as it drags along the asphalt.
Not for nothing, but for what that whole rig costs ( and what they charge to use it ) you would think the guy steering the back could maybe get like a seat, and a roof over his head ?
Can somebody help me , I have some questions , how many loads a truck like these do a month ??? A year ????. And how much they charge for that kind of load ???? . Thanks !!!!!!
I was thinking the same thing, I think it must have a hydraulic drive on the rear bogie powered by whatever was screaming away in the grey box, there is no way the tractor could cause that movement at the rear.
Yes I understand the steering mechanism of the rear bogie sections, but the loading orientation of the trailer mechanism would be colossal to get the rear of the trailer to move two or three times as fast as the front as appears to be the case.
It's hard to determine by the RPM's on the APU, if it is used for traction as well as steering. It would make perfect sense, but it also might depend on how old the rig is. The fact that it goes down a lot in RPM's, when steering action is applied, could suggest that it is a smaller engine, used for steering only. It seems it would not have to work as hard to make the turn, if it had to drive a pump for propulsion as well. That it would have a more linear power use. Hard to tell though.
Americans always seem to go over the top when it comes to transporting abnormal loads. There are far too many axle bogies on this set up for the load...and far too long.
Yeah I know its easy to criticize but why turn around it the parking lot with the truck, just rotate the load on the crane hook????? show ponies captured on camera, selfies on cell phones