Ox
Diamond
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2002
- Location
- Northwest Ohio
Just got back from an extended trip west. Had a cpl days of work to doo at Olingers Heavy Hauling in Kansas City, Missouri. We needed to doo some cannibleizing of some equipment that we had in storage there so that we can now ship it to the scrap yard.
They regularly haul some really large loads. Milt said that one of their guys' just got back from taking a 160K# transformer to a mine in Yellowknife. With another to take again soon.
They were puting together a brand new trailer that is expandable in width. Not sure how wide it goes, but it was prolly in the 11' to 12' wide position when I shot these pics and it had plenty more settings available yet. This is a "heavy haul" trailer, but not real heavy. I forget what he said the rating was for it, but nothing like thier other stuff...
This trailer had a small motor on the rear to run a hydraulic pack that would steer the rear gangs, and instead of a driver, it ran simply off of the turn signal to move L/C/R.
Also had a 13 axle shown here that is only a cpl yrs old and looks to be brand new.
Shown torn down/stacked up for running empty - yet still weighs well over 80K empty.
There is actually another gang of 3 axles directly behind the further-most set of 3 axles that can see in the pic. They also share the weight via help from the hydro unit and air bags even tho they seem so far removed from the load.
They also had a 10 axle next bay over. All of these trailers were rear driver-less, and apparently all ran off the turn signal.
IMO this would be a very interesting - yet possibly a very stressfull business to be in. But then we have stress in much more mundane carreers.
My rig is a little less than impressive:
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Think Snow Eh!
Ox
They regularly haul some really large loads. Milt said that one of their guys' just got back from taking a 160K# transformer to a mine in Yellowknife. With another to take again soon.
They were puting together a brand new trailer that is expandable in width. Not sure how wide it goes, but it was prolly in the 11' to 12' wide position when I shot these pics and it had plenty more settings available yet. This is a "heavy haul" trailer, but not real heavy. I forget what he said the rating was for it, but nothing like thier other stuff...
This trailer had a small motor on the rear to run a hydraulic pack that would steer the rear gangs, and instead of a driver, it ran simply off of the turn signal to move L/C/R.
Also had a 13 axle shown here that is only a cpl yrs old and looks to be brand new.
Shown torn down/stacked up for running empty - yet still weighs well over 80K empty.
There is actually another gang of 3 axles directly behind the further-most set of 3 axles that can see in the pic. They also share the weight via help from the hydro unit and air bags even tho they seem so far removed from the load.
They also had a 10 axle next bay over. All of these trailers were rear driver-less, and apparently all ran off the turn signal.
IMO this would be a very interesting - yet possibly a very stressfull business to be in. But then we have stress in much more mundane carreers.
My rig is a little less than impressive:
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Think Snow Eh!
Ox