Sow trucks

[crawlerdan]

well as some of you know, i am a heavy haul truck driver, that means oversized loads only. over weight, over height, over length, ect.

we do alot of windmill farm projects moving blades, towers, and transformers. (i generally do transformer relocation and install)


anyway, here are some pics of sows-off highway big ass trucks

the one doing a wheelie belongs to us, and i am driving
we where pulling 1 million 157 thousand pounds  ! ya!!

[crawlerdan]

heres a video of ironmike, we used him this weekend in about 6 inches of goo mud-we where about 450k gross

www.youtube.com/watch?v=guoptClnn-0


iron mike has a 900 horse cummins and weighs in at 72000 pounds. he usually has chains on the tires also

[crawlerdan]

heres a sow on a windmill farm hauling windmill tower parts

[crawlerdan]

340k transformer. the trailers name is "enormous" it weighs 185 k by itself

[crawlerdan]

here we are off road with teh same transformer

the trailer has 48 53 inch michelins

[toy4x4ota]

very cool

[AaronB]

I work on wind turbines for a living, I worked in manufacturing for a little while and used to load the turbines on to the trucks that would haul them out to the sites.

[crawlerdan]

I work on wind turbines for a living, I worked in manufacturing for a little while and used to load the turbines on to the trucks that would haul them out to the sites.

you work for vestas/ ge? seimens?

[NorCalToy]

thats pretty awesome dude...whats it cost to replace all 48 tires?

[kiyul4130]

its amazing that that truck can pull something that large and that damn heavy in the first few pictures. Post #4 - thats the kind of trailer you need to tow 25 trucks down to the hammers in parked side by side each other haha.

[crawlerdan]

thats pretty awesome dude...whats it cost to replace all 48 tires?

each tire runs about 550 bucks, so thats about 26,400- the last time all where replaced at the same time was 1985-but all have been replaced a few at a time since-it is 14ft wide, so the pass side sees alot of shoulder which means it picks up alot of debrit-and we have to replace them as they poop out

[crawlerdan]

its amazing that that truck can pull something that large and that damn heavy in the first few pictures. Post #4 - thats the kind of trailer you need to tow 25 trucks down to the hammers in parked side by side each other haha.

the trailer has a 300 ton capacity (though we have had more on it )- thats 600,000 pounds, or roughly 171 toyota pickups

6 would fit on the deck though

[oddball]

Really great pictures, Im a fan of the heavy haul rigs

[TheCookieMonster]

thats sweet man... are all the pics from here in Oregon ?

[2000SAS-10]

That is BAD TO THE BONE!!!

[crawlerdan]

thats sweet man... are all the pics from here in Oregon ?

oregon or eastern washington. but all are relatively local

[oddball]

The wheelie in #13 is cool, 368 almost gives the illusion its drifting