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Close up view of a 250 ton capacity dump truck in an iron mine's shops in northern Minnesota. You'll notice people are rather small relative to this behemoth! This truck is marked "Dresser Haulpak", though in typical corporate-merger-mania-bullshit fashion it appears to be a Komatsu product. I think it may be an 830E which has electric drive motors on each rear wheel.
(See why your pickup truck does not impress me, regardless of how big a Chinese-made exhaust stack you put on it?)
There is a lot of heating duct visible in this photo. I can't imagine why this shop would need much heat!
(See why your pickup truck does not impress me, regardless of how big a Chinese-made exhaust stack you put on it?)
There is a lot of heating duct visible in this photo. I can't imagine why this shop would need much heat!
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Only if you can stand in the center of one and fill the opening! :)
Incidentally, the mines have trouble keeping tires on their machines. There are only a couple manufacturers and they are a pain to transport. Sometimes machines will be parked for months for want of tires, which makes the bean counters really unhappy.
Incidentally, the mines have trouble keeping tires on their machines. There are only a couple manufacturers and they are a pain to transport. Sometimes machines will be parked for months for want of tires, which makes the bean counters really unhappy.
Normally the trucks are shipped in parts and reassemble on site. They try to run them 24/7 due to the three million dollar price tag or more. I think some mines buy a couple extra tires every time so they do not run out at round 15,000.00 per tire. I think that what they cost nowadays.
I know someone who drove those once. 185 tons and three gallons of diesel per mile. The engine just powers a generator and battery banks for going up hill. The science channel had a show that explained that an axle would break under the weight of the body so, they use massive electric motors instead.
Nah, no 7-11s close. I think that's why Bob Dylan had to leave (he was born right down the road); no place to deal with the late night munchies! :)
Top speed is about 38 mph, so I think you'd win. Unless you happened to end up under a wheel, in which case I wouldn't even feel the *squish*
Right before I took this picture a driver backed over a pickup truck and didn't notice :) I saw the pictures.
Top speed is about 38 mph, so I think you'd win. Unless you happened to end up under a wheel, in which case I wouldn't even feel the *squish*
Right before I took this picture a driver backed over a pickup truck and didn't notice :) I saw the pictures.
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