machtool
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2004
- Location
- Melbourne Australia
Is there any traction here for completed jobs?.
I've been up in Central Queensland 5 weeks out of the past 6. Rockhampton, about 2,000 km's from home. Railway maintenance workshop that has been closed down. I'm representing the local agent for Hegenscheidt Train Wheel profiling machines. I've had to pull out two machine approx 57 tonne each
First machine was fairly straight forward. It was on flat and level ground. Second machine sat up on a concrete plinth about 600mm high. ( 2 foot). 7 x 10 metres area. At best a 3.5m radius before outriggers and stand off.
Just to complicate things, the highest access roller door was 3.8m. I could sneak in a 60t Tandano in there. Our weapon of choice for machine handling is what we call a Franna. He cant get close enough due to this monolith of concrete. Loads only 10.2 tonnes / 22,500 lbs
Aussie built Franna is the unit on the left.
6 wheel U.S J.D gator, just got in the way of what would have been a good picture.
Tandano was all tied up in the roof, even backed up into the concrete block for minimum swing radius, even with out extending the tele-boom, he was hooked up to the rafters. He was good for about 28 tonne over the lift. So we plucked the headstocks, boomed down, and out. And plucked the lift mid air, with a Franna from the next bay. Loaded it onto the truck, with out ever hitting the ground.
Regards. Phil
I've been up in Central Queensland 5 weeks out of the past 6. Rockhampton, about 2,000 km's from home. Railway maintenance workshop that has been closed down. I'm representing the local agent for Hegenscheidt Train Wheel profiling machines. I've had to pull out two machine approx 57 tonne each
First machine was fairly straight forward. It was on flat and level ground. Second machine sat up on a concrete plinth about 600mm high. ( 2 foot). 7 x 10 metres area. At best a 3.5m radius before outriggers and stand off.
Just to complicate things, the highest access roller door was 3.8m. I could sneak in a 60t Tandano in there. Our weapon of choice for machine handling is what we call a Franna. He cant get close enough due to this monolith of concrete. Loads only 10.2 tonnes / 22,500 lbs
Aussie built Franna is the unit on the left.
6 wheel U.S J.D gator, just got in the way of what would have been a good picture.
Tandano was all tied up in the roof, even backed up into the concrete block for minimum swing radius, even with out extending the tele-boom, he was hooked up to the rafters. He was good for about 28 tonne over the lift. So we plucked the headstocks, boomed down, and out. And plucked the lift mid air, with a Franna from the next bay. Loaded it onto the truck, with out ever hitting the ground.
Regards. Phil