Cat's biggest truck to crumple tanks like paper cups

[Bill, KD0HG]

Good grief...A ladder up the the bridge.

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1,375,000 pounds.  A 117-liter, 3550 hp V-24 engine moves the monster at speeds of up to 42 mph. Hauls 380 tons. The military is looking into using the things to squash other vehicles like bugs.

One heckofa pickup truck. I assume that it has power steering.

[W2JBL]

looks just right for sweeping up the BMW's and Mercedes that hurtle down the Saw Mill Parkway here in NY in the morning driven by out of control people texting, cell-phoning, and applying makeup...

[w4bfs]

saw a special on Big Trucks on the one eyed monster ... using this one in mining ...most of the drivers were ladies ... wonder what would happen iffn had a flat ...beefus

[WD8BIL]

The Cat 797 has been featured on Modern Marvels (History Channel) several times.
Yes Bill, it has power EVERYTHING! In one episode they interviewed as 62 yr old  grandma that's been driving one at a western copper mine since they first hit the scene.

[WQ9E]

I was in the Cat Decatur,IL plant a few years ago as one of the faculty providing an executive MBA program there.  This is where much of the mining division equipment is produced and at that point I believe a 300 ton truck was the largest one they produced.  One of the funniest comments occurred when one of my fellow profs asked why some people were walking through the line without hardhats on and the guide dryly observed that the part of the frame on the overhead conveyor on that part of the line weighed around 20 tons so a hardhat wouldn't offer much protection. 

Although Decatur is a very industrial town and generally the ambient odor is that of soybeans being processed if any of you find yourselves there both Caterpillar and ADM offer very interesting tour opportunities.  ADM (Archer Daniels Midland probably best known for their longstanding "Supermarket to the World" campaign) runs an interesting Tilapia (fish) and hydroponic vegetable operation as part of the grain processing facility and waste heat from the grain processing provides the heat for the fish farm and greenhouses while water and "waste" from the fish farm provides nutrients for the plants.  As I recall ADM also furnishes much of the heat for Millikin University from their excess heat also.

Rodger WQ9E

[WA1GFZ]

ADM just a joke but I think of "Soilant Green" when ever I see ADM

[KB2WIG]

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[W3RSW]

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[KB2WIG]

No, I think it's GE , " People are our most important product" or somthing like that.... ..

klc

[ka3zlr]

Wonder how the drivers feel about this, looks like more good paying jobs on the outs to me, and on the owners side of the issue a total autonomous mining operation...Hey way cool, No labor issues, No benefit packages to be concerned about, put up the antenna, put the toys on the ground and walk away...

On today's battlefield environment, insurgence and counter insurgence...where's the need..? it's mostly street to street...point to point execution...a machine of this scale in Baghdad...LOL... I guess we could put it in the desert and let it roam around looking for points of opportunity...perimeter patrol...something...it'd be a Support night mare...LOL....

I like some of the autonomous Aircraft...now there's real advantage....

[WU2D]

We already have autonomous ham radio - seen a contest grade station lately?

Pretty soon the stations will be working one another without human intervention and they will no doubt develop egos - the rise of the contest grade stations!

Back on the big truck- But does it have a power mic? - sure can get those mirror mount co-phased CB whips up in the air on that beast - CAWMON!

Mike WU2D

[W3RSW]

Co-phased?   You mean Bi-phased?  Cawmon.

[KB2WIG]

 " Co-phased?   You mean Bi-phased?  Cawmon. "

Pikers.

 What ya need fer that 'rig' is a Sturba Curtain........

klc

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

A recently-deceased uncle was a quarry man for decades here in the VT granite industry. They used a truck similar to this one called the Euclid with a huge dump body, high cab, massive tires. They had signs on the highway and flashing lights during the weeks when they were transporting grout across the road to be crushed for driveway stay-mat and similar. Seems he told me they did this because the trucks had no brakes and could only gear down to slow down. They came down off a hill, across roared across the road, and disappeared from sight.

Of course, those 'huge' trucks then would probably sit in the dump body of this big Cat. But at the time (1960s), they were about the biggest truck around, mighty impressive to a kid who liked anything with wheels.