Subject:
|
Re: Heavy Duty Articulated Pulling Truck
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad, lugnet.build
|
Date:
|
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:30:47 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2338 times
|
| |
|
|
I just happened upon the following, while getting up-to-date on my
handy-dandy "Guinness World Record Holder Calendar". It's the entry
for last Saturday, Nov. 28.
"Largest Truck
"The Terex Titan 33-19, manufactured by General Motors
Corporation and now in operation at Westar Mine, British
Columbia, Canada, has a loaded weight of 604.7 tons and a
capacity of 350 tons. When tipped, its height is 56 feet. The
16-cylinder engine delivers 3,300 hp."
Copyright (C) 1997 by Guinness Publishing Limited. Reproduced without
permission.
If this factoid is found useful by one reader, then my stewardship of
the GWRHC for these many months will be considered worthwhile.
Steve
Once upon a time, Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote:
> "Fredrik Glöckner" wrote:
> >
> > Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> writes:
>
> > <hook clarification>
>
> > So if the hook is at the correct height, you can just back the truck up
> > in the correct direction, and then flip the crossblock to slide the
> > halfbeams back up, thus locking the trailer in place. The mechanism is
> > much like that of 8872
>
> > http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=8872
>
> Thanks. I see now. And BTW, what a cool set! I'd never seen that one
> before.
>
> > > Have you tried giving it an earthmover (Articulated truck or scraper)
> > > back end?
> >
> > That would mean putting a scraper in front of the rear wheels, right?
> > That would be possible, but would probably mean that the chassis need
> > some reorganizing, since the two 10-axles that hold the chassis together
> > are in the way of the scraper.
> >
> > > I went to the Cat site to find one but came up short. However there are
> > > some other interesting construction pics there...
> > >
> > > http://www.cat.com/cgi-bin/frameset.pl?nav=products&content=/products/equipment/equipment.html&target=_top&title=Caterpillar%20-%20Products%20-%20Equipment
> >
> > That's cool! I would like to make one of those really large dump trucks
> > in a minifig scale, but I don't quite know how to make the steering
> > work. A rack and pinion version would require too much space, I think.
>
> Not really. Remember that in the largest truck they do, the cab floor is
> 20-30 feet off the ground. You could use Big Foot wheels with a full
> blown articulated suspension with rack and pinion steering and a
> differential and still have room to mount an engine model in all that
> space (the truck would no doubt be a good 20 studs wide, and the cab
> floor would be 8-12 bricks off the ground.)
>
> > Besides, how would the dump be constructed? Any ideas?
>
> Either something done with hinge bricks, or lots and lots of plates
> sandwiched around a technic axle and beam skeleton. Again, the dump body
> holds 3-400 TONS of material so it's HUGE. It's amazing to think that
> they move around with no more engine power than an over the road truck
> (3-400 horsepower, about 2-3 times that of a normal passenger car
> nowadays). It's all in the gearing.
>
> These trucks are so large that they are shipped in pieces and assembled
> on the site. They take up 3 lanes of roadway so never dare venture out
> onto highways.
>
> >
> > Fredrik
>
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
> For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
> - Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
> - Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
> - This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Heavy Duty Articulated Pulling Truck
|
| (...) OK, so I got the horspower wrong. That engine, no doubt, is made by the ElectroMotive Division of GM, the locomotive folks, either in LaGrange IL, or London ON. It's a bit derated, as the top end diesel engines are pushing 6000 turbocharged hp (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Heavy Duty Articulated Pulling Truck
|
| (...) before. (...) Not really. Remember that in the largest truck they do, the cab floor is 20-30 feet off the ground. You could use Big Foot wheels with a full blown articulated suspension with rack and pinion steering and a differential and still (...) (26 years ago, 29-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
|
7 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
