V12 Cummins engines are heavy!

rockyridgefarm

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Friend bought a bunch of stuff on an online auction on Monday and I went five hours north on Wednesday to get his stuff and the one item I bought. One of the things he got was a v12 Cummins. They tried to lift it with a 5500lb capacity telelhandler and it wouldn t touch it. So then we got a pagy loader. First try a lifting didn t work, so we changed it up. Got it lifted off the ground about a foot and blew the bucket hydraulic line. Went and got another loader and got it picked. He carried it down a drive that he had gone across earlier and sunk his tires about a foot deep, but he got it on!

My friend also bought two dragline buckets, a dodder mill, and a grain dryer fan. I had to keep my speed down to 55 to keep from overheating. Going 15 under on the four lane isn t so bad unless you hit eau Claire at rush hour. I was white knuckling it while getting eaten alive by everyone else on the road. I think I was even passed by an Amish buggy!

I got to his place at 8 at night and unloaded that monster in the dark in the rain. We used a 5500lb rough terrain forklift, but he couldn t move, so I had to pull out from under it. We used two 15,000 chokers and shackles on the lift points on the engine. I have no idea what he is gonna do with that ocean liner anchor.


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(quoted from post at 20:09:08 09/20/19) Do you think you might have a tad heavy?

Rich

No. Payload on my trailer is 15K. Engine was 9-10k, and the rest did not weigh 5k. Problem was speed. Maintaining 70 mph takes a lot of power.
 
You could have saved yourself and many many other people a lot of frustration and wasted time by pulling off the road and taking a break until the rush hour traffic cleared. If you only added 6 minutes to the commute of 1000 other drivers you wasted 100 hours of other peoples time, all because you couldn't spare one hour of your own time. Please be considerate of all the other people that need to use what you might consider "YOUR ROADS".

Another alternative would have been to decide to make two trips as soon as you realized how large and heavy the engine actually was (how long did you struggle to get it loaded?). Two trips would both have been comfortably within the capacity of your truck. If your friend is a true friend he would have understood your problem and paid for two trips.

Thank you all for listening to my rant.
 
(quoted from post at 05:50:50 09/21/19) You could have saved yourself and many many other people a lot of frustration and wasted time by pulling off the road and taking a break until the rush hour traffic cleared. If you only added 6 minutes to the commute of 1000 other drivers you wasted 100 hours of other peoples time, all because you couldn't spare one hour of your own time. Please be considerate of all the other people that need to use what you might consider "YOUR ROADS".

Another alternative would have been to decide to make two trips as soon as you realized how large and heavy the engine actually was (how long did you struggle to get it loaded?). Two trips would both have been comfortably within the capacity of your truck. If your friend is a true friend he would have understood your problem and paid for two trips.

Thank you all for listening to my rant.

Yeah, that s definitely a rant.

And a gross overexaggeration. I may have inconvenienced 1000 drivers by six seconds. 100 minutes. Less than two hours. A second trip would have cost me eleven hours. I was only in eau Claire traffic for about 20 minutes of a five hour return trip. Felt like two hours, but it was 20 minutes. It s my raid just as much as it is anyone else s road. And it isn t my fault that I may have prevented a driver from going 20 over the speed limit for the six seconds it took to use the passing lane.

Try to have a happy day.
 

Well golly, that's an easy one! All he needs to do is hook that thing up to a Northern Tools 10Kw generator head for use when the power goes out. :shock: *lol*
 

The 175kw generator is laying on the trailer beside it. Guy had taken it apart years ago and left it lay in the mud. Wonder how much billy shafer would charge to come up and get it going...?
 
I didn't realize that roads are only to be used by four-wheelers and drivers with the overblown, self-important attitude of "Nothing is more important than ME being first in line and everybody else should get out of MY way!"

There's room for everyone. As long as he didn't live in the hammer lane the whole time, what's the problem?
 
Have you ever been through Eau Claire? In 2010 it was just over 65,000 people, 2019 probably still under 66,000. If the original poster stayed in the right lane running 55 he should have been fine. I absolutely hate getting passed by an endless string of speeding cars/trucks also but when I drove semi it was unavoidable. I bet the "Eau Claire Rush Hour" is 10-12 cars running 3 to 5 mph over the posted speed limit and probably only added 10-15 seconds to their trip home from work.

Company I used to work for built scrap shredder rotors, imagine a hammer mill rotor 7 feet in diameter and 9-10 feet long on a 16 or 20 inch forged alloy steel shaft. The spiders and end disks made from cast alloy steel heat-treated to 30 Rockwell C scale. With none of the wear parts they weighed 45,000 to 50,000 pounds, we built larger models that weighed 85,000 to 90,000# too. We built special skids to set them on, 16 to 20 ft lengths of 4"x7" 1/4" wall rectangular tubing. Truck driver showed up with a brand new aluminum frame flat bed to pick a rotor up, by the time he got 1000-1200 miles away his trailer was sagging, when the rotor was removed the trailer stayed sagged. My company ended up buying the trking co. A new trailer but that was the last load of freight they ever got. Pretty expensive trailer! But putting that much weight in a small area on a trailer really risks damage to the trailer.
 
Sorry but I learned years ago. Never get involved with a project like that again.If the gen section has been in the mud.It most likly
is junk. It would have to be taken apart. Flushed out,Meg test done. Windings checked. Baked for a few days. Then another Meg test
done. Then you have to find out what is wrong with the engine. Sorry but my best idea. Scrap yard.
 
(quoted from post at 07:21:27 09/21/19) Sorry but I learned years ago. Never get involved with a project like that again.If the gen section has been in the mud.It most likly
is junk. It would have to be taken apart. Flushed out,Meg test done. Windings checked. Baked for a few days. Then another Meg test
done. Then you have to find out what is wrong with the engine. Sorry but my best idea. Scrap yard.

I was joking, Billy. The genny is going to the scrapyard. I don t think the engine will move again once he finds a corner to put it in.
 
In my business you never know. I had a guy bring me a 6.5 MCCK.Wanted me to rebuild it. I told him what I thought it would take. If
evertthing was normal. Then he told me it has been in the gulf under water. For the last two years.I told him where the local scrap
yard was.
 
That is a Cummins 1710 cubic inch V12, looks to be naturally aspirated. Without seeing the data tag probably about 500 HP. Solid engines that are still plenty of in service today. In the last few months have worked on two, one natural aspirated that got hot and scored a cylinder and one turbocharged model that had the coolant plates in the center of the V leaking. Good stuff there.
 

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