Mega Transports: Mining Truck | Engineering Documentary
How can a dump truck too heavy for the roads be transported?
If a transporter needs to be transported, if 176 wheels aren’t enough to carry its weight and if the load weighs twice as much as the transporter… Then it must be the mother of all mega transports! The setting: Canada. The cargo: an ultra-class dump truck. The heroes: tough men with delicate fingers and eagle eyes.
In the midst of the no-man’s-land of Fort McKay, in the province of Alberta, the multi-national company Mammoet has built up a business for special transports. For there is treasure in this region: natural gas. To extract it, heavy machines are necessary. Heavy Machines like the 797. The biggest dump truck Cat has ever built – THE work horse of the North American mining industry. The record-breaking size of its wheels is matched only by that of its price: six to eight million dollars. This is the very truck that Mammoet is supposed to deliver today to its operation site, an oil sands surface mine.
Although the mine is only 7 kilometres away, the truck does not manage the short distance on its own power. With the truck’s 300 tons distributed over only four wheels, the road would not be able to withstand the weight. Like an elephant standing on four juice-boxes. The pressure on the four small patches of ground would immediately burst the asphalt. So, it has to be transported on a special trailer, which has to be precisely assembled before the loading can start. And: the transport has to be finished before rush-hour…
This mega transport requires everything from man and machine.
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39:24 isn't it more about the torque of the truck not the horsepower ?
its can occupy healthy elephant?
Way to much repetition.
Cat is the best and the greatest strongest trucks ever…..i love cat…
Canadians are cool under presure unlike aussies who are vulgar foul mouth.
Because of the economic crisis that always comes up the best thing to be on every wise individual’s mind or list is to invest in different streams of income that’s not depending on the government to generate funds.
Here is Canada we use dollars not euros
Another priceless documentary.
Excellent job by the mechanical Engineers and the entire squad
All the workers at the Mammoet so brilliant and articulate
This would have been enjoyable to watch except for way too many ads.
Those trailers were produced in my hometown,i worked at that company during school holidays for 3 summers.
the coupling system improved a lot,but that doesn´t help the guys in the video right!?
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Very impressive to see that size truck on a platform.
Its seems to be a toy but it is huge monster and monster carier nice team works 100out of 1000😲
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Awesome work!
Why they didn't just drive it there
Sick mate
Just fantastic. Thank you!
38:42 "Oversize load" and 'undersized sign' 😂
Mate "How's ya hair under that hat?👒
Let me guess "just Finnin? 😄 "
…….its a stressful job am not surprised 🙃
Yeah these guys have very tight highway delivery windows. Most of the mines are accessible only by a two-lane highway. An extremely busy highway during shift changes.
Oh that's only the old 797B …. we're running now 797F in the mines here in Nothern Alberta
And then thus lol
I hope next time they will feature how they built that awesome trailer!!! Good job that should be proud of!!!
Silly question: why not drive the dump truck to the mine rather than carry it on a mega truck?
I’m a kid and I even think trucks are cool
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There is also a fire suppression system the operator can activate just in case the radiator catches fire while operating the mine truck. Emergency ladder included!
My dream company
Please also mention mammot mega jack systems used to install 10000 tons of modules on arctic lng 2 project. A key jem of a project.