This video demonstrates that shear power of the Century M100 rotator from Miller Industries. In this video we lift and rotate a heavy bulldozer weighting in around 103,000 lbs.
I'd LOVE to see a @RonPratt / Miller Industries collaboration showcasing Ron's high-level rotator skills with the amazing recovery capabilities of this rig!
@@atzgfq23 Yep, title it something along the lines of “Miller Industries let me borrow this massive BEHEMOTH of a rotator for a day and this happened” :)
I wish I could see some better Pictures of that Western Star 4900 in Your Profile Picture. It looks to have 9 or 11 Cab Lights, I can’t tell if they are Square or around Cab Lights.
Nice video . You are showing it lifting in an ideal situation . You have full stabilizer spread , but you can't always have that in the real world . I would suggest have some type of removable counter weight that can be placed on the stabilizers to give some extra stability . I would think that running a configuration like that would have to be told to the computer to allow it to work . But Crane operators do that all the time . They tell the computer how the crane is configured at that moment .
This isn't being bought for recovery. It is built by a company known for building wreckers and people just can't wrap their head around the intent. Though it could be used for recovery of wrecked things, this can do things no other lifting machine can. These are for quick and easy lifting of very heavy things, in tight places, with minimal fanfare. One man can drive it in, lift very heavy things at a zero boom angle, via remote control while standing inches away from where the heavy thing needs to sit, and pack up and roll out and never break a sweat. No other machine can do what it does and it makes some people a lot of money.
@@missmymountain It actually would have very real recovery benefits in rural environments that frequent oversize loads, I've seen a few videos of just that occurring where a company has to go out up in the mountains or hills or something on a tight 2 lane road and recovery a 100k+ oversize load and they are packing 4,5,6 trucks diagonally to recovery said load, Where as a truck this capable while still only taking up the footprint of a 2 lane road could go in there and act as a powerhouse in some of those recoveries, You would still need an additional truck or two but it wouldn't be a struggle of lining up every truck in your fleet including light duty to just barely have enough out there to winch an oversized load out.
In the pictures of M100 #2 what is covered up by the black ovals, some sort of identifying information or is it just some equipment that Miller doesn’t approve of?
Did anyone notice when it booms out with the video sped up you can see when all the weight came off the opposite outriggers and they became counterweight right at the tipping point. I would have pounded some shims between the pad/arm space to have a few inches more of safety as the center of gravity passes the pin.
@@dandunning4409 You can look up Miller m 100 overview or the product demo they talk about the roller function. They even go as far saying you need to roll the rotator assembly a few feet back before you can get a full 360 degree working radius. Also they mention that the system dose not need any maintenance becuse of how they built it.
@@MattyMalvs9 a load, not a loadcell. I'm starting to think the 100-ton capacity is theoretical and they can't lift that much weight at a large enough radius to ever be realistic.
@@Anthony_St.George in what way? The roll/slide feature thats about it,every brand copies another nrc just copied miller with there safeloader wheelift,all miller did was take features from there own trucks and supersized them
that's a STUPID way to lift a dozer. you are lifting against the blade cylinders and mounts. it would be better to lift from the roller frames, they are meant to hold the weight of the machine. the hydraulic cylinders are NOT
