Re: Large crawlers, how do you move them?.

Posted by Wayne on December 16, 2003 at 20:48:38 from (152.163.253.66):

In Reply to: Large crawlers, how do you move them?. posted by Jonathan on December 16, 2003 at 12:49:38:

Like the other poast say, they just take them apart and put all the pieces on different trucks. We assembled a 518 Link-Belt several years ago on a bridge site. The customer had the machine shipped decked (the upper works already attached to the lower works) so it had to be permitted as a super load. I believe the driver said he was weighing a little over 100,000lbs. The complete rig consisted of the the truck, whic was a tri axel, then one long "jeep", then the main trailer body, and then two more shorter "jeeps". He was right at 114 ft long all togther and had to bring it to us at the dead end of a two lane country road where they actually had the bridge out. He dropped the two rear "jeeps" a mile up the road and brought it in straight since it couldn't be backed. We put the tracks on and drove the crane off the trailer and onto the side of the road under it's own power. We then picked up the jeep and set it aside, then the main trailer body. The driver backed back up the road a mile to the turn around point, turned around, and backed back in to us. We picked the trailer again, swung it around and hooked him back up and tied the "jeep" down where the crane had been and sent him back home. That was about the most fun I've had in all m y years of working on this stuff. It was a real challenge figuring out how to get everything in in such a limited space, but when everybody put their heads together, it went like clockwork.

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