Friday, January 1, 2021

193 US ton roadtrain hauling iron ore in the Australian outback.

 


25 comments:

  1. Where are the marauding harpoon-firing motorcycle and dune buggy gangs?
    Has everything Hollywood told me about the Australian outback been a lie?

    ReplyDelete
  2. I want to see this thing cross the river that those snorkels were made for.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. The snorkels are not for fording deep water, they're to get the air intake above the road dust.

      Delete
  3. Don't have to worry about lane changes, or every backing up, and emergency stops? Pass everything but gas station.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Not sure it matches the picture, but a typical road train has
    Engine: 700hp, Torque 3,150 Nm with I-Shift.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Not sure it matches the picture, but a typical road train has
    Engine: 700hp, Torque 3,150 Nm with I-Shift.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Not sure it matches the picture, but a typical road train has
    Engine: 700hp, Torque 3,150 Nm with I-Shift.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Why does a Volvo have a KW badge, Chris?

    ReplyDelete
  8. https://www.kenworth.com.au/trucks/c5-series/c510/

    ReplyDelete
  9. A Volvo FH16 is a cab over not very different from a Scania, Chris doesn't know his trucks.

    ReplyDelete
  10. It is a variant of the C510. BIS still have a lot of them out here in the Northern goldfields of Western Australia. Qsk19 Cummins with a 18 speed roadranger. Extra front axle (twin steer) means it complies with mainroads regulations and allows the bigger motor and cooling that comes with it.
    I have driven an empty one for a few hundred kms delivering it about 5 years ago.
    Bill The Bunyip

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I would have guessed a V-12 Cat.
      Up here in North Maine, our loggers run at least 500HP with an 18 speed on road with 1 trailer..
      But we aren't quite as flat as the Outback, I suspect.

      Delete
  11. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  12. 100 wheels. That's a lot of rubber at tire changes.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Like the French guy from Kebec said when somebody asked him about flat tires.
      "No kick. Just count".

      Delete
    2. Trailers: 4 Trailers x 3 axles x 4 tires/axle = 48 tires
      Tractor: 3 axles w/4 tires/axles + 2 axles w/2tires/axle = 16 tires
      Total: 64 tires

      Delete
    3. Actually, we were both wrong, but take what comfort you may in the knowledge that you were farther off than I was.

      6 sets of triple axles on trailers x4/axle = 72.
      1 set of triple axles on tractor x 4/axle = 12.
      2 sets of steering axle x 2/axle = 4.
      72 + 12 + 4 = 88.

      Delete
    4. Tires are a pain but, what about checking the slack adjusters and air leakdown for your pre-trip inspection?

      Delete
  13. I bet this bad boy does 0 to 60 in 20...that's minutes not seconds.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Several years ago, before the closed shop, the local Siemens factory built and shipped a very large turbine-generator set. The set came in at over 500,000 lbs, and the road rig itself came in at another 500,000 lbs. It was driven by two of the largest semi tractors I have ever seen, at least as big as the Army's tank-hauler tractors. The whole rig had 168 tires.

    It managed to creep along at a walking pace, and I followed it for a mile. The road route was Mt Vernon, Oh, to Marietta, Oh, US 36 to I77?, where it was put on a barge to Africa.

    ReplyDelete